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When the Family Leaves the Business, Can Their Values Remain?

We already know that family firms differ from non-family firms by their powerful commitment to core values that subordinate profit to other goals. While non-family companies use rationality and Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Roy Suddaby , Wilson Ng , Natalia Vershinina , Gideon Markman and Matthew Cadbury

Growing Pains: Helping a Family Office to Evolve

This case study invites students to identify the underlying issues, stakes, and potential pathways forward for a troubled family office. Students also explore problems surrounding the evolution of Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Torsten Pieper and Claudia Binz Astrachan

Pitching and Evaluating a Venture: The Case of TeamGenius

How can entrepreneurs build a case for external investment, and how do investors evaluate the ventures pitched to them? This case offers some answers to these questions. It’s likely to be of Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Jay Ebben and Alec Johnson

How a Distillery Founder and His Investor Went Off the Rails

In 2013, Chip Tate was on the verge of taking Balcones Distilling to the next level. Since 2008, he had been building his Waco, Texas-based craft whiskey business literally with his own hands, Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Theodore L. Waldron , Jeffery S. McMullen , Oleg Petrenko , Lori Tribble Trudell , Olivia Aronson and James C Wetherbe

Summer Program in Japan Gets Future Entrepreneurs to a ‘Better Starting Line’

Every summer in the sweltering heat of Japanese summer, dozens of aspiring entrepreneurs, mostly students, arrive in Kyoto to participate in Japan's most intense and international summer Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Sushi Suzuki

Case Studies, Movies, TV Shows and Other Family Business Resources

The demand for family business education is soaring around the globe, and several higher education institutions are introducing new courses and programs that focus on this dominant type of business Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Alfredo De Massis and Josip Kotlar

How Can the Family Business Cope When a Key Non-family Exec Leaves?

NOTE TO TEACHERS: The downloadable supporting document (above) includes material to guide classroom discussion. This case is based on a real family business, although the specifics have been changed Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Madison Mailey

How Lowell Wakefield Made Crab King

While king crab fishing is among the most dangerous and lucrative activities in the world, it is only recent technology that makes it possible to extract this bounty from the sea, from global Read More...

Category: Case Studies

Author: Sharon Alvarez

When Kickstarter Campaigns Don’t Deliver: A Case Study of Phenom Fabrics

Introduction In October of 2014, Frances Courtepointe 1 started a Kickstarter campaign for her venture Phenom Fabrics 1 . She promised hand dyed fabric "fat-quarter" cuts -  a 18” x 22” Read More...

Category: Case Studies

Authors: Eden Blair and Tanya Marcum