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Many Startups Benefit From a Short-Term Focus

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

Five Things Family Businesses are Reckoning With Now

  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

The Best Family Business Boards Embrace Candor and 'Necessary Endings'

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

Who Will Be Your Competitors in the Future?

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

Why You Should Name Your Business After Yourself

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

What Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Kiwi Crisis Management

New Zealand's strategies allowed it to escape the worst of the pandemic. Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Jamie D. Collins

For the Best Customer Data, Look Beyond the Market

Results of the research found that mobile app categories with a growing number of freely released mobile Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Jon Eckhardt

Hackers, Makers, and Crowd Funding: Lowering the Barriers to Entrepreneurship

The maker movement depends upon a growing institutional infrastructure of Internet-based sharing, marketing Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Howard E. Aldrich

Investing in Capabilities and Reputation Pays Off for VC Firms

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

Talk With Real Customers Before the Launch

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