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Around the globe, more and more women are taking their careers in their own hands by launching a business. Women represent one of the fastest growing segments of the entrepreneurship population Read More...
Category: Commentary
Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Catherine Buday
Janme Sinha became intrigued by family business conflict and dynamics when a distraught friend confided that his recently deceased father had left all of the shares of the family business to his Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
Between COVID, supply chain issues, armed invasions, unstable markets, and the great resignation with millions of workers leaving the workforce (Parker & Menasce Horowitz, 2022) – or, more Read More...
Category: Commentary
Authors: Lars B. Sonderegger , Claudia Binz Astrachan and Joseph Astrachan
The Merck family business dates back to this apothecary, founded in 1668. The German Merck family has succeeded where many business families have failed: Keeping a group of 319 family members, Read More...
Category: Commentary
Authors: Tom Rüsen , Claudia Binz Astrachan and Frank Stangenberg-Haverkamp
Like all kinds of firms, family businesses have undergone a culture shock because of the pandemic. After starting out in the pandemic’s early days as a survival mechanism, remote work is now Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Jay Mulki
Gordon Davis and Jim Wetherbe at the Celebration of 50 Years of MIS at the University of Minnesota in 2018. It takes a Herculean entrepreneurial effort to create and sustain a new academic Read More...
Category: Commentary
Authors: Brian Janz and James C Wetherbe
Lavazza. Alessi. Olivetti. Campari. These brands evoke images of products, advertisements, or memories of our past: the aroma of Lavazza coffee or an Alessi coffee maker at work, the sound of keys on Read More...
Category: Commentary
Authors: Peter Trümmel , Vittoria Magrelli and Alfredo De Massis
Around the globe, family businesses are grappling with the effects of inflation, now at its highest level in 40 years. A recent NFIB report noted that over 30% of business owners feel inflation is Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
Imagine this not so uncommon family business situation. In a f ourth-generation family business, the transition between the previous generations always went from the father to son in the business: Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Sara Stern
Family enterprises are the backbone of the world’s economy and critically important to the economic growth and development of every nation. On average, they outperform publicly owned non-family Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: David Deeds