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Unlocking the Innovation Potential of Family Firms: An Assessment Tool

innovation is generally seen as necessary to keep the business thriving over time (unless the business operates Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Emanuela Rondi , Alfredo De Massis and Josip Kotlar

Winemakers Provide Lessons on Resilience

Winemaking provided the perfect industry to study because the vintners operate in a dynamic environment Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Alfredo De Massis , Elisa Conz and Peter Lamb

Surprising reasons owners exit family businesses

organizational factors such as structure (Ford and Slocum, 1977), innovation (Damanpour, 1992), strategy Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Authors: James Hoffman , Ritch Sorenson and Keith Brigham

To Engage Business Students, Roll Out 'the Barrels'

The Barrel family has decided that a strategy-setting session is needed to move the business forward. Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Whitney Peake and Teran Sundy

Entrepreneurial Brinkmanship: Lessons Learned from Best Buy and FedEx

then, Sound of Music was becoming obsolete, along with every other mom-and-pop shop and regional operator Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: James C Wetherbe

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

A Father/Son Sitdown: Howard and Steven Aldrich

Robert and Mark were still doing their day-jobs, I was in school, and because of that we could operate Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Howard E. Aldrich

Delivering the Goods: An Interview with Best Buy and EIX Founder Dick Schulze

Got up in the morning at 5:30, 6 o'clock developed a strategy, which I learned after the first year, Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: James C Wetherbe