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A family business founder or leader often toils for years to cultivate good relationships with people, organizations, and businesses outside the family, including banks, suppliers, customers, and the Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Luis Cisneros , Bérangère Deschamps and Sebastien Geindre
Family businesses everywhere are responding to the succession challenge in profound ways. Preserving cherished family traditions and relationships is just as important as preserving the wealth of the Read More...
Category: Commentary
Authors: Mat Hughes and Mira Bloemen-Bekx
Part 2 of a two-part series. Read part 1 here . Family business succession planning is a difficult process – and it is even more challenging in cases where divorce and adoption complicate family Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Leona Rethmann and Nadine Kammerlander
David Bentall found out the hard way that his leadership of his family's construction and real estate firm wasn't working: his own uncle removed him from the company. Losing his job was a Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
Part 1 of 2 -- Family business succession planning clearly is among a family business’s most challenging events and plenty of experts have weighed in on how to do it right. However, most of Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Nadine Kammerlander and Leona Rethmann
As we all know, successions and family business succession planning are rarely easy, but unexpected transitions pose a significant risk to family businesses. When Herbert Fisk Johnson, Sr., the Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: David Deeds
The upcoming generation of family firm leaders often don't see things the same way as their parents and grandparents do. Professor Peter Jaskiewicz has explored this disconnect deeply in his new book Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
Stories abound about sibling rivalries and family business conflict that have harmed family businesses and the families behind them. For instance, Charles and David Koch were sued by their brothers, Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Jonas Ruzek and Kimberly Eddleston
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to family business succession planning. Every situation is different and every family is uniquely complex. However, some principles appear to transcend culture Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Tom Rüsen , Torsten Groth and Arist von Schlippe
By Shital Jayantilal, Silvia Ferreira Jorge and Tomas M. Banegil Palacios Family businesses are especially conflict-prone, since sibling rivalry and other emotional undercurrents sometimes cloud Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Shital Jayantilal , Sílvia Jorge and Tomas M. Bañegil Palacios