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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
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
The end of the year is typically a time to for EIX and familybusiness.org to showcase their best-read articles from the past year in several broad themes: evaluating opportunities, financing, Read More...
Category: Commentary
Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Daniel Forbes
As the Covid-19 virus spreads rapidly through the United States, most of the U.S. universities, businesses, government agencies, and school systems began a massive push to work from home or attend Read More...
Category: Commentary
Authors: Hung-bin Ding and Dr. Rosa Nelly Trevinyo-Rodriguez
When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching. -- Robert Bly A client told me once that all a family member needed to come Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Robert Caldwell
Joe Brito, the third-generation head of C.B. Utility Co. in Bristol, Rhode Island, started his career in the family business as a laborer. He firmly believes that anybody entering their family Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
From Elon Musk to Richard Branson to Steve Jobs, entrepreneurs are creative visionaries, able to see possibilities that have not been seen before. But fulfilling that vision also requires left-brain Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Christina Luconi