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Developing responsible owners in family business

convincingly concludes the ability to delay gratification in childhood is a superior predictor of success Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Torsten Pieper and Joseph Astrachan

Should Your Next CEO be From Outside the Family?

In her discussion with Matt Nielsen of Nielsen-Massey Vanillas International, Editor Kimberly Eddleston goes into a sensitive topic for many family firms: whether an outside leader is better equipped Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

To Engage Business Students, Roll Out 'the Barrels'

Integrate how Pappy Barrel could be expected to handle succession into your responses. Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Whitney Peake and Teran Sundy

'There's No Birthright' and Other Tips for Raising Entrepreneurial Leaders

Professor Kim Eddleston, an editor at EIX.org and FamilyBusiness.org, Brito shares the secrets of success Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Why Does EOS/Traction Work So Well for Family Businesses?

Now they run a successful, professional family business that hasn’t lost its family business feel. Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Sara Stern

A Family Firm Can Be Both an Innovator and a Great Place to Work

safe and comfortable contributing their ideas, but also help them share in the family business’s success Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Emanuela Rondi , Ruth Überbacher , Leopold von Schlenk-Barnsdorf , Alfredo De Massis and Marcel Hülsbeck

From Entitlement to Contribution

Many otherwise feasible businesses fail at times of succession for lack of competent next generation Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Robert Caldwell

Understand Your Family Firm's Core Strengths and Weaknesses

This will have an important impact on the firm's succession plans and whether they include the next generation Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Thomas Zellweger

Family Office Continuity in the Time of COVID19

pandemic has given all of us a sense of our own vulnerability, businesses might do well to think about succession Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Hung-bin Ding and Dr. Rosa Nelly Trevinyo-Rodriguez

How Family Business Leaders Can Encourage Both Devotion and Performance

and selflessness among family members, the business identity prioritizes contributing to the firm's success Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Roland Kidwell and Kathryn Kloepfer