|

SEARCH RESULTS


How Famous Family Firms Use Their History to Connect With Stakeholders

just about prestige and status, but also creating entrepreneurial projects that are meaningful and successful Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Luca Manelli , Vittoria Magrelli , Josip Kotlar , Federico Frattini and Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli

How the Right Mix of Employee Incentives Fosters Innovation

The most successful innovators in each group also tended to embrace a particular combination of incentives Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Elisa Villani , Christian Linder , Alfredo De Massis and Kimberly Eddleston

How Family Firms Can Ensure Being Sustainable Pays Off

it can motivate potential customers to buy its products, potential investors to bet on its future success Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Adrian Stutz , Sabrina Schell and Andreas Hack

Women Show Their Strengths When Family Businesses are in Trouble 

ourselves, we wanted to explore how women helped their businesses survive crises and endure through successive Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Allan Discua Cruz , Eleanor Hamilton , Giovanna Campopiano and Sarah Jack

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

Seven Things to Consider Before Selling the Family Firm

  The University of St. Thomas (Minneapolis)  Family Business Center  in February 2023 put together a panel discussion for family firms, focusing on lessons learned from families who Read More...

Category: Practice Insight

Author: Jon Keimig

Unforeseen Crisis Made These Family Businesses Stronger

Pandemics, wars, and natural disasters can have a significant impact on the economy and its organizations.  Such events are called “exogenous shocks” because they come without warning from Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Rebecca Alguera Kleine , Bingbing Ge and Alfredo De Massis

Do You Treat In-Laws Like the Family Business Outlaws ?

appropriately hold our children accountable for their behaviors – or do we tend to attribute our children’s successes Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Claudia Binz Astrachan , Joseph Astrachan and Torsten Pieper

Help Your Family Business by Helping Others

When Katie Rucker was asked to lead a $15 million fundraiser for a local Ronald McDonald House, her twin sister Jenny Dinnen at first worried about running the family business without her co-leader. Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Helicopter Parenting Can Hurt Future Family Business Leaders

  The founders of many longstanding family businesses likely had parents who insisted on responsibility and let them learn from their mistakes. This is not so today -- the era of helicopter Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Kimberly Eddleston