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Managing Emotional Minefields Within Family Businesses

Being part of a family business often requires that family members manage their emotions appropriately Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Dr. Ayoosha Saleem , Francesco Barbera , Simon de Jong and Arvid Hoffmann

It’s Complicated: Managing Succession in Cases of Divorce and Adoption

Part 1 of 2 --  Family business succession planning clearly is among a family business’s most challenging events and plenty of experts have weighed in on how to do it right. However, most of Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Nadine Kammerlander and Leona Rethmann

Surprising reasons owners exit family businesses

  Research on owner-manager experience has suggested that owner-managers who stay in one business Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Authors: James Hoffman , Ritch Sorenson and Keith Brigham

Good Intentions Can Sow Dysfunction at Family Businesses

People wear many hats at family businesses: owners, managers, and family members. Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Sara Stern

Do You Treat In-Laws Like the Family Business Outlaws ?

questions have consequences: Being inclusive and exclusive require both the family and the business to be managed Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Claudia Binz Astrachan , Joseph Astrachan and Torsten Pieper

How Family Firms Can Prevent (or Cool Down) Sibling Rivalries

popular press and serve as inspiration for television series like HBO’s Succession, many siblings manage Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Jonas Ruzek and Kimberly Eddleston

Advice for Untangling Conflict in a Family Business

Janme Sinha became intrigued by family business conflict and dynamics when a distraught friend confided that his recently deceased father had left all of the shares of the family business to his Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

What Families in Conflict Can Learn from Baseball and Teachers

the author of this section, is a retired federal mediator of over 1,000 disputes involving labor-management Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Michael Carrell and Louis Manchise

Attitudes Towards Money Can Cloud Family Business Decisions

Take, for example, the family that sold part of their operating business for $30 million and who wanted Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Claudia Binz Astrachan and Anneleen Michiels

Family Firms May Need More Legal Advice Than They Think

The death of a shareholder can cause such transfers and could jeopardize the operation of the business Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Kajsa Haag , Hanna Almlöf , Marina Madsen and Mette Neville