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Surprising reasons owners exit family businesses

An issue often raised in family business studies is that only about a third of family businesses make Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Authors: James Hoffman , Ritch Sorenson and Keith Brigham

Choosing a Board of Directors for a Family Business

For full Barrel Family case information, see the original Barrel Family Exercise. Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Whitney Peake

Divorce Can Hollow out a Family Business — But it Doesn’t Have to

Many public examples of messy divorces of business-owning families often focus on the decay of family Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Jonas Ruzek

Hyannis Country Garden is a Family Business With Deep Roots

Schulze Family Foundation and EIX, the Entrepreneur and Innovation Exchange. Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Alauna Yust

Five Things Family Businesses are Reckoning With Now

  Family businesses everywhere are responding to Covid-19 in profound ways, balancing the need to 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, Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Claudia Binz Astrachan , Joseph Astrachan and Hermut Kormann

Winemakers Provide Lessons on Resilience

The owner/managers in this group were all family members who had never worked outside the family business Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Alfredo De Massis , Elisa Conz and Peter Lamb

Why You Should Name Your Business After Yourself

For many family-run businesses, the business name and family name are the same, linking the reputations Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Sharon Belenzon

To Encourage Innovation, Tap the Next Generation of Leaders

Past studies tend to show that family businesses are less innovative than their non-family counterparts Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Author: Mat Hughes