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Entrepreneurial Brinkmanship: Lessons Learned from Best Buy and FedEx

of brinkmanship at Best Buy and FedEx in their formative years, and highlights the inspirational leadership Read More...

Category: Case Studies

Author: James C Wetherbe

Playing the Succession Game to Ensure Family Business Continuity

eight different interdependent factors that affect how the succession process unfolds: each child’s leadership Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Shital Jayantilal , Sílvia Jorge and Tomas M. Bañegil Palacios

Renewing the Empire: A Family Firm's Succession and Refit Journey

While epically long leadership tenure is a well-known characteristic of family businesses (Gomez-Mejia Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Melania Riefolo , Sena Özkara , Baris Istipliler and Jan-Philipp Ahrens

Firm But Flexible Parents Raise the Best Family Business Leaders

business CEOs and thus, the family can never start too early in preparing their sons and daughters for leadership Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston , Kristen Shanine and Kristen Madison

Should Former Leaders Stay Involved in the Family Firm?

Step Down CEO successors with high CEO-related human capital (maturity, along with experience in leadership Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Melania Riefolo , Sena Özkara , Jan-Philipp Ahrens and Niloufar Nekouei

10 Things That Help Family Businesses Preserve Their Legacy

and mentorship to ensure the next generation receives the right skills and guidance to take over leadership Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: R. Adam Smith

Investing for a Better World: A Conversation with Justin Rockefeller

Perhaps no other family is more synonymous with both capitalism and philanthropy than the Rockefellers. The family ’s fortunes in oil have made it possible for them to invest in initiatives that Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

'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

How Family Business Leaders Can Encourage Both Devotion and Performance

Family businesses have unique strengths and unique problems because they blend two identities -- "family" and "business" -- whose priorities are often at odds. While the family identity nurtures Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Roland Kidwell and Kathryn Kloepfer

Mike Dulworth on the Power of Connection

not, they'd rather have somebody else make that sort of-- I suspect that it goes to the heart of leadership Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Nicholas Vitalari