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What Family Businesses Should be Doing Now

As family business leaders are forced to deal with COVID-19, Winston Churchill’s advice comes to mind: “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” This suggests that as family firms Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Beyond Succession: Family Firms Need a Legacy Plan Too

Succession planning has been a heavily researched topic and buzzword for many years now. However, its lesser-known counterpart -- legacy planning – is becoming a part of many families' personal Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Aquesha Daniels, J.D.

Too Much Love in the Family Can Hurt

EDITOR'S NOTE: This article was produced in partnership with the Journal of Family Business Strategy, a leading journal in the field of family business, as part of our mission to bring Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Ines Herrero and Mat Hughes

Understand Your Family Firm's Core Strengths and Weaknesses

It's been said that, “Once you have seen one family firm, you have seen just one family firm.” While it’s popular to say that every family firm is unique, as a researcher I take issue with the Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Thomas Zellweger

How Gamification Can Help Family Businesses

Conceptualization that is induced by the play (Kolb & Kolb. 2005). This study echoes the thesis of John Dewey (1916), one of the most influential thinkers in educational theory in the 20th Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Salvatore Tomaselli and Danilo Maurici

Unlocking the Innovation Potential of Family Firms: An Assessment Tool

When it comes to innovation, family firms often are trapped in an “ability–willingness paradox”: the superior ability to innovate is unrealized because of fear of innovation. Our research 1 Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Emanuela Rondi , Alfredo De Massis and Josip Kotlar

Why You Should Name Your Business After Yourself

What's in a name? For many family-run businesses, the business name and family name are the same, linking the reputations of the two, for better or worse. New family business owners often grapple Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Sharon Belenzon

Businesses Named After Founders Enjoy Greater Returns

By Sharon Belanzon, Aaron K. Chatterji and Brendan Daley Business history is filled with legendary companies named for their founders: Hewlett-Packard, Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Sharon Belenzon

Daughters are Taking Over Family Businesses

This article is part of America’s Entrepreneurs , a Next Avenue initiative made possible by the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation and EIX, the Entrepreneur and Innovation Exchange .)  Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Chris Farrell

When entrepreneurs raise entrepreneurs

Family businesses are the backbone of many economies. However, many potential successors of family businesses decide not to join the family business at first, but to become entrepreneurs themselves. Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Nadine Kammerlander and Larissa Leitner