crisis management

Entrepreneurs often face critical decisions for their firms in the midst of considerable uncertainty and great risk. Effective crisis management requires that decision makers make choices even when Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Jamie D. Collins

While the pandemic has created economic turmoil, family and business disruption, and challenges that could last a lifetime, it also presents a unique opportunity to learn and improve family business Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

As family business leaders are forced to deal with COVID-19, Winston Churchill’s advice comes to mind: “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” This suggests that as family firms Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Since March 2020 we’ve published many articles about how small businesses, family businesses and startups can survive this pandemic, build resilience and get ready for what comes next.  Here Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: David Deeds

EDITOR'S NOTE: This popular EIX article, published during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, includes timely advice for emerging from any crisis. Although difficult to see at the moment, the Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Theodore L. Waldron and James C Wetherbe

EDITOR'S NOTE: This very popular article, published in 2020 during the height of the pandemic, includes timeless advice for helping startups, small businesses and family firms learn from adversity Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Dave Ketchen and Christopher Craighead

On April 24, 2020 President Trump signed the second tranche of small business loans into law, providing $310 billion more for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and $60 Billion for the Economic Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: David Deeds

I sent my nephew, a hospital-based internal medicine doctor, a text to let him know I was thinking of him. At the end of the text, I added “sending a big hug,” my usual Aunt Paula Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Paula Caligiuri

As the Covid-19 virus spreads rapidly through the United States, most of the U.S. universities, businesses, government agencies, and school systems began a massive push to work from home or attend Read More...

Category: Commentary

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

EDITOR'S NOTE: This article, published during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, links to resources that can help family businesses manage challenges and become more resilient. What does the Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Peter Jaskiewicz and Thomas Clark