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Consequently, the external board member will play a stronger role in developing strategy. Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Johan Bruneel , Stephan Weemaes and Ann Gaeremynck
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
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
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
Most entrepreneurs know the competitors they face today; namely, other businesses that compete for the same customers in the same or similar markets or industries. However, many dissimilar companies Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Stephen Downing , Jin-Su Kang and Gideon Markman
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
New Zealand's strategies allowed it to escape the worst of the pandemic. Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Jamie D. Collins
Entrepreneurship comes in different forms, and the experience of being a solo entrepreneur - or a “company of one” - is a form that’s attracting a great deal of interest today. In this Q&A Read More...
Category: Interviews
Authors: Sarah Lempa and Daniel Forbes
Entrepreneurs and business leaders are blessed and cursed with thinking about their businesses 24 hours a day. It becomes their life focus. What is it that consumes them? Bottom line? Employee Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Dave Feldman
EEA Consulting Engineers is an employee-owned firm in Austin, Texas. Like all engineering companies— and many other businesses—its success depends entirely on its people. So you’d expect the Read More...
Category: Practice Insight
Author: Corey Rosen