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  Family businesses are unstoppable when they benefit from the wisdom of founders and older leaders and the forward-thinking, innovative outlook of the next generation. But all too often, these Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

  A family firm's longevity depends on fresh approaches to doing business, but all too often these fresh insights can clash with the family's entrenched way of doing things. Founders especially Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

For business or emotional reasons, sometimes one family ends up with more than one business under its umbrella. An entrepreneurial, ambitious family member may want to launch a new venture, or a Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

  Preparing the next generation for leadership is an important mission for family businesses. But all too often, the comfortable lifestyle that family wealth makes possible does not do the Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

In her discussion with Matt Nielsen of Nielsen-Massey Vanillas International, Editor Kimberly Eddleston goes into a sensitive topic for many family firms: whether an outside leader is better equipped Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Handing off the leadership of a family business is never easy, especially when the heir is viewed as entitled to the crown, rather than deserving of it. This interview with Robert Buday, author of Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Despite decades of striving and some progress, women still face a glass ceiling in many tradition-bound family businesses.  In this interview with familybusiness.org Editor Kimberly Eddleston, Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston