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What All Family Businesses Can Learn From the Merck Family

The family, driven by a CEO who married into it, decided to fundamentally revisit its organizational Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Tom Rüsen , Claudia Binz Astrachan and Frank Stangenberg-Haverkamp

Developing responsible owners in family business

Shared values and family culture Shared values represent the fundamental beliefs and principles that Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Torsten Pieper and Joseph Astrachan

How 'Job Creators' Think

Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 3, 315–330. Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Authors: Keith Brigham , Ron Mitchell and Jeff Stambaugh

The 'Fredo Factor:' How Deadbeats and Troublemakers Hurt Family Businesses

Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, 36 (2): 369-386. Kidwell, R. E., Eddleston, K. Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

To Engage Business Students, Roll Out 'the Barrels'

Additional Search Terms: entrepreneurship courses, teaching ideas, teaching resources, classroom ideas Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Whitney Peake and Teran Sundy

'There's No Birthright' and Other Tips for Raising Entrepreneurial Leaders

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

Why Does EOS/Traction Work So Well for Family Businesses?

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

From Entitlement to Contribution

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

Entrepreneurial Brinkmanship: Lessons Learned from Best Buy and FedEx

It is during this time when leaders must combine the art of brinkmanship with entrepreneurship. Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: James C Wetherbe

A Father/Son Sitdown: Howard and Steven Aldrich

More than 20 years ago, Steven Aldrich showed the Mosaic Browser to his father, noted entrepreneurship Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Howard E. Aldrich