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But small businesses, who are more nimble than large ones, are often unaware of a strategy that can help Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Aquesha Daniels, J.D. , Mariah Yates, Ph.D., MBA and Shane Spiller
Second of a two-part series From our studies evaluating the effectiveness of boards at family firms, we’ve seen first-hand how strong boards can help family businesses be more successful. In Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Claudia Binz Astrachan , Joseph Astrachan and Hermut Kormann
Family businesses everywhere are responding to Covid-19 in profound ways, balancing the need to preserve cherished family traditions and social capital against the mandate to control costs at Read More...
Category: Commentary
Authors: Mat Hughes and Alfredo De Massis
What's in a name? For many family-run businesses, the business name and family name are the same, linking the reputations of the two, for better or worse. New family business owners often grapple Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: Sharon Belenzon
Some of these are managed cooperatively but others are private, for-profit operations -- such as Etsy Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Howard E. Aldrich
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
With Bill and Melinda Gates’ divorce making headlines across the globe, many are wondering how the split will affect their joint business dealings — especially the Gates Foundation, which they Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Jonas Ruzek
New venture capital firms must make a variety of strategic decisions about market positioning and relationships with the entrepreneurs in their portfolio. One choice VC firms must make is whether to Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: David Hsu
As online crowdsourcing has shown, people will support a proposed business or cause that moves them. For entrepreneurs, the ability to test a proposed product or service's uniqueness and appeal has Read More...
Category: Commentary
Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Dan Holland
innovation in the broader sense that they are developing sets of routines that represent a new way of operating Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: Daniel Forbes