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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

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

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

Family Business Succession Planning: 10 Golden Rules

issue of succession at least once a year. 2 | Separate ownership (shareholder) succession from leadership Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Tom Rüsen , Torsten Groth and Arist von Schlippe

5 Benefits of Having a Multigenerational Family Business

Article originally published at NextAvenue.org , which has partnered with EIX.org on a series of high quality features about family business and entrepreneurship. Part of the America’s Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Jessica Thiefels

The Family Business: Matching Older and Younger Entrepreneurs

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 . When a Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Kerry Hannon

The 5 Money Mistakes That Blindside Entrepreneurs

Whether you are starting a family business or inheriting one, managing finances strategically helps protects both the business and the family.  Yet many entrepreneurs start a business without Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Hyannis Country Garden is a Family Business With Deep Roots

This feature and video are part of  America’s Entrepreneurs: Making it Work , a Rewire initiative made possible by the  Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation  and  EIX, the Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Alauna Yust

What All Family Businesses Can Learn From the Merck Family

The Merck family business dates back to this apothecary, founded in 1668. The German Merck family has succeeded where many business families have failed: Keeping a group of 319 family members, Read More...

Category: Commentary

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

Should Family Businesses Have Employee Ownership Plans?

Like almost all family businesses, Commercial Casework in Hayward, California had to plan for when family owners would want to sell. The company, with about 100 employees, is one of the San Francisco Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Corey Rosen