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How Family Firms Can Prevent (or Cool Down) Sibling Rivalries

are often detailed in the popular press and serve as inspiration for television series like HBO’s Succession Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Jonas Ruzek and Kimberly Eddleston

How 'Job Creators' Think

enhanced performance.Thus, we offer the following hypothesis, where total employment growth represents success Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Authors: Keith Brigham , Ron Mitchell and Jeff Stambaugh

How Family Firms Help Non-Family Employees Feel Like Family

profitability.A recent fictional example is the Roy family from the award-winning HBO television series "Succession Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Peter Jaskiewicz , Josh Hsueh , Elizabeth Tetzlaff and Giovanna Campopiano

Advice for Family Business Successors: Be Humble and Curious

  David Bentall found out the hard way that his leadership of his family's construction and real estate firm wasn't working: his own uncle removed him from the company. Losing his job was a Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

How Family Businesses Survive Unexpected ‘Wild Cards’

survive such long periods, family firms need to successfully manage operational performance and succession Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Wojciech Czakon , Monika Hajdas and Joanna Radomska

The Biggest Mistakes Family Businesses Make With Their Boards

Family business researcher, lecturer, and advisor Claudia Binz Astrachan has studied first-hand how effective boards of directors steer family business management towards strategies that make the Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Technical Specialized Knowledge and Founder Leadership at Initial Public Offering

The research shows that factors that predict founder succession differ across executive positions. Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Authors: Jon Eckhardt , Marc Junkunc and Mingxiang Li

Advice for Non-Family Executives in Family Businesses

But on the family side what that refers to is succession. Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Ritch Sorenson

Diversify Your Family's Risks by Returning to Its Entrepreneurial Roots

But even the most successful family businesses face two critical challenges: diversifying their wealth Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: David Deeds

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