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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
Even as we begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel, a number of new problems are just around the bend. Will you be able to retain your top talent from joining the great resignation? Read More...
Category: Commentary
Authors: Daniel Forbes and Kimberly Eddleston
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
These are turbulent times. Battered from the pandemic’s economic hardship, and following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020, citizens of all races, ages and other Read More...
Category: Commentary
Authors: Claudia Binz Astrachan , Angelo Perryman , Torsten Pieper and Howard Stevenson
Entrepreneurs often face critical decisions for their firms in the midst of considerable uncertainty and great risk. Effective crisis management requires that decision makers make choices even when Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Jamie D. Collins
EDITOR'S NOTE: This very popular article, published in 2020 during the height of the pandemic, includes timeless advice for helping startups, small businesses and family firms learn from adversity Read More...
Category: Commentary
Authors: Dave Ketchen and Christopher Craighead
On April 24, 2020 President Trump signed the second tranche of small business loans into law, providing $310 billion more for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and $60 Billion for the Economic Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: David Deeds
I sent my nephew, a hospital-based internal medicine doctor, a text to let him know I was thinking of him. At the end of the text, I added “sending a big hug,” my usual Aunt Paula Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Paula Caligiuri
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
The economic stimulus plan signed into law on March 27 puts the Small Business Administration in charge of disbursing financial aid to small businesses hurt by the coronavirus pandemic. It Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: David Deeds