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How to Care for Your Team During a Crisis

Three factors matter here: defining tasks, allowing work flexibility and providing resources. Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Theodore L. Waldron and James C Wetherbe

How to Grow Your Family Business

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 .) Taking a Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Kerry Hannon

Encouraging Family Business Members to Go the Extra Mile

Family firms typically emphasize one of two management approaches: stewardship, which stresses participation, adaptability and family harmony; and agency, which emphasizes discipline, management and Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston , Franz Kellermanns and Roland Kidwell

Which Kinds of Workers Leave Family Firms?

Working in a family firm can be either satisfying or stifling for someone who’s not a relative. Interpersonal relationships can be stronger than they would be in non-family firms, and the work Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Franz Kellermanns , Nicole Gottschalck and Christina Guenther

A More User-Friendly Way to Track Liquidity

Such conditions may suggest liquidity problems that in fact don’t exist, limiting their ability to obtain Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Phil Greenwood

Buying vs. Leasing Equipment: Which One is Better?

It’s the easiest way to obtain much-needed equipment without putting a strain on your company’s capital Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Rumzz Bajwa

What If a Hedge Fund Invests in my Family Business?

We obtained ownership data from publicly available records supplied by the Securities and Exchange Commission Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Matthias G. Leute , Yannick Bammens , Martin Carree and Jolien Huybrechts

Four Reasons Why Your Next Hire Should Have a Side Hustle

  A global consortium of hiring managers at the Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Steve Blank and Nancy Forster-Holt

Entrepreneurship in an Era of Digital Transformation

My research into virtual human resource development (Bennett, 2009, 2014) illustrates how employees learn Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Elisabeth E. Bennett, PhD

How to Encourage Devotion Among Nonfamily Employees

A professional survey organization contacted a nonfamily executive from each of the firms to obtain their Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Josep Llach , Valeriano Sanchez-Famoso and Dr. Sharon M. Danes