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More women around the world are launching their own companies, especially as the pandemic has displaced many of them from corporate work. These women already face more hurdles than men do in Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Sumaya Hashim , Lucia Naldi and Magdalena Markowska
The $325 billion second Covid relief bill -- the Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Nonprofits, and Venues Act -- was signed into law on December 27, 2020. The Small Business Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: David Deeds
This article is part of America's Entrepreneurs , a Next Avenue initiative made possible by the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation and EIX. When Jordan Taylor was a Read More...
Category: Features
Author: Kerry Hannon
It's been almost 14 months since the first Covid case was reported and, in that year, a great deal has happened. Very few business owners, particularly in North America, took the potential for a Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Joseph Astrachan
Family businesses everywhere are responding to Covid-19 in profound ways, balancing the need to preserve cherished family traditions and social capital against the mandate to control costs at Read More...
Category: Interviews
Authors: Mat Hughes and Alfredo De Massis
The end of the year is typically a time to for EIX and familybusiness.org to showcase their best-read articles from the past year in several broad themes: evaluating opportunities, financing, Read More...
Category: Commentary
Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Daniel Forbes
Family businesses are unique, with many advantages that stand them in good stead during times of crisis. While there are unique strengths for family-owned firms working in a world changed by Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: Doug Baumoel
“When owners start talking about their rights rather than their responsibilities, a family business is in trouble“. (Smith Lanier) Introduction Management and organization research and Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Torsten Pieper and Joseph Astrachan
For family firms, the Covid 19 experience has been compared to being battlefield doctors: they are surrounded by trauma and uncertainty, and forced to make decisions without any precedent to guide Read More...
Category: Interviews
Authors: Mat Hughes and Torsten Pieper
Daughters are increasingly assuming leadership roles at family firms. In this video, familybusiness.org Editor Kimberly Eddleston talks with two Northeastern University students who will join their Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston