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Surprising reasons owners exit family businesses

the founder’s charismatic identity, and the decoupling of this identity from the organization as it grows Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Authors: James Hoffman , Ritch Sorenson and Keith Brigham

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

And I was going to find a way for us to start a company and grow in a niche. Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: James C Wetherbe

Entrepreneurial Brinkmanship: Lessons Learned from Best Buy and FedEx

However, as a successful startup grows, the advantage of nimbleness erodes. Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: James C Wetherbe

Winemakers Provide Lessons on Resilience

been dramatically declining in Italy during the last decades, which has forced Italian winemakers to grow Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Alfredo De Massis , Elisa Conz and Peter Lamb

Hyannis Country Garden is a Family Business With Deep Roots

role at that moment shaped me as a manager, but we have to enjoy it too, and we can’t be scared of growing Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Alauna Yust

Unlocking the Innovation Potential of Family Firms: An Assessment Tool

Journal of Family Business Strategy, in press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfbs.2017.12.001 2. Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Emanuela Rondi , Alfredo De Massis and Josip Kotlar

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

A Father/Son Sitdown: Howard and Steven Aldrich

  It was a time when Steven was imagining a future in helping technology companies grow. Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Howard E. Aldrich