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How Gamification Can Help Family Businesses

Conceptualization that is induced by the play (Kolb & Kolb. 2005). This study echoes the thesis of John Dewey (1916), one of the most influential thinkers in educational theory in the 20th Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Salvatore Tomaselli and Danilo Maurici

Team Exercise: How Parenting Styles Affect The Next Generation

  Because the family and business are inextricably intertwined in family businesses, parenting plays a critical role in shaping the next generation and their contribution to the family business. Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Isabel C Botero

The Potential Downside of Having Non-Family Board Members

By Alfredo DeMassis, Lorraine Uhlaner, Ann Jorrissen and Yan Du It's been generally accepted that family firms benefit from the perspectives of outsiders on the board of directors. Outsiders can Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Alfredo De Massis

Family Businesses Must Plan for the Unthinkable

It's been almost 14 months since the first Covid case was reported and, in that year, a great deal has happened. Very few business owners, particularly in North America, took the potential for a Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Joseph Astrachan

How 1,100 Family Firms Grappled with Covid-19

For family firms, the Covid 19 experience has been compared to being battlefield doctors: they are surrounded by trauma and uncertainty, and forced to make decisions without any precedent to guide Read More...

Category: Interviews

Authors: Mat Hughes and Torsten Pieper

5 Ways Family Businesses Can Adapt to Covid-19

This article is part of America’s Entrepreneurs , a Next Avenue initiative made possible by the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation and EIX, the Entrepreneur and Innovation Exchange . Part of Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Kerry Hannon

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

The Corleones of "Godfather" fame are an extreme example of a “family business.” But like many family businesses, they have a family member who is a serious hindrance to their business, is less Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Better Let Your Brother Do It: Men Are Still Preferred in CEO Successions

less discussed: Family businesses still prefer male relatives when choosing a new generation of leadership Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Jan-Philipp Ahrens , Melania Riefolo , Annegret Hauer and Katharina Siegert

Daughters are Taking Over Family Businesses

They’re increasingly passing on ownership and leadership of the family enterprise to their daughters, Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Chris Farrell

Female Advisors Can Help Family Businesses

And this occurs within the family business, within the leadership of centers and within consulting teams Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Devina Raithatha