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Small companies with a promising technology or service often look to partner with bigger firms to get access to money, distribution channels and manufacturing facilities they need to help their
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Second in a two-part series. Read Part 1 here . To understand why building a robust supply chain management capability is important, small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) owners need
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David Johnston
'Let’s Not Go There...' Taboos in Family Business
Family businesses and the families that own them are known for their secrecy and discretion. Keeping a “low profile” can provide useful benefits -- for example, shelter from business
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Part one of a two-part series. Read part 2 here Two questions currently dominate the emerging post Covid-19 economy. Most immediately: When will I get what I ordered? More long term: How
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David Johnston
Correctly timing a chief executive officer’s (CEO) succession is very important for firms, because CEO transition sends important signals to investors about the future of the firm’s strategy and
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Retirement Options and their Consequences for Small Business Owners
Pierre, a Swiss bakery co-owner for four decades, left his business behind when he reached age 65, the eligible retirement age in Switzerland. He was looking forward to leaving seven-day workweeks
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Seven Strategies to Survive the Post-Pandemic Labor Shortage
Small and medium-sized family businesses, which employed a large proportion of the labor force before the COVID-19 pandemic, are reeling from the post-pandemic challenge of retaining current staff
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I n 2011, Marc Andreessen famously wrote a prescient claim that “software is eating the world.” His prediction was that software companies would disrupt traditional industries and since then,
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Applied and Practice
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Jon Eckhardt
Divorce Can Hollow out a Family Business — But it Doesn’t Have to
With Bill and Melinda Gates’ divorce making headlines across the globe, many are wondering how the split will affect their joint business dealings — especially the Gates Foundation, which they
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Unique Challenges to Family Business Resilience
Part two of a two-part series. As new cases of COVID-19 emerge around the world (as of late July, 2021), the disease continues to remind us that the only certainty is uncertainty -- a theme I
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Applied and Practice
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Mat Hughes
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