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To Engage Business Students, Roll Out 'the Barrels'

She learned that while Woodford would love the social ramifications of being the leader of a successful Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Whitney Peake and Teran Sundy

Developing responsible owners in family business

They provide not only financial capital to the business, but also human and social capital (Sirmon & Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Torsten Pieper and Joseph Astrachan

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

Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, 36 (2): 369-386. Kidwell, R. E., Eddleston, K. Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

A Road Map for Resurgence

pandemic’s economic hardship has hit disadvantaged communities the worst, and exposed racial and social Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Daniel Forbes

Family Office Continuity in the Time of COVID19

What happens when social distancing laws keep these trusted bodyguards from doing their jobs? Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Hung-bin Ding and Dr. Rosa Nelly Trevinyo-Rodriguez

A Family Firm Can Be Both an Innovator and a Great Place to Work

generations and challenging times by renewing and adapting its practices in coherence with the current social Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Emanuela Rondi , Ruth Überbacher , Leopold von Schlenk-Barnsdorf , Alfredo De Massis and Marcel Hülsbeck

Why Does EOS/Traction Work So Well for Family Businesses?

Imagine this not so uncommon family business situation. In a f ourth-generation family business, the transition between the previous generations always went from the father to son in the business: Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Sara Stern

'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

From Entitlement to Contribution

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching. -- Robert Bly A client told me once that all a family member needed to come Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Robert Caldwell

What All Family Businesses Can Learn From the Merck Family

They regularly create opportunities to spend time together both socially (as a family) and formally ( Read More...

Category: Commentary

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