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Women can be indispensable in times of trouble, but the glass ceiling and the glass cliff still hold them back, even at family firms. Seven things to think about. Crisis is part of every Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: Rania Labaki
EDITOR'S NOTE: This popular article from three years ago is still relevant today. The author has updated it for 2023. Three years ago, we were emerging from a fiercely battled presidential election Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: Carol Wittmeyer
Despite decades of striving and some progress, women still face a glass ceiling in many tradition-bound family businesses. In this interview with familybusiness.org Editor Kimberly Eddleston, Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
Like old vineyards that still produce great wines, older family businesses thrive across many generations developing resilient responses in the face of competition, market shifts and family Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Alfredo De Massis , Elisa Conz and Peter Lamb
Entrepreneur Dennis Bozzi This article is part of America's Entrepre neurs , a Next Avenue initiative made possible by the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation and EIX, the Entrepreneur and Read More...
Category: Features
Author: Kerry Hannon
Entrepreneur, philanthropist and author Simran Mohinani has great role models among her family members, who run Platinum Estates, a thriving enterprise in Europe. Mohinani has three of her own Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
In this interview, Joseph Astrachan – one of the world’s most well-versed experts on dealing with issues pertaining to business families – shares his thoughts on family dynamics and family Read More...
Category: Commentary
Authors: Joseph Astrachan and Claudia Binz Astrachan
This exercise gives students hands-on experience as family business advisors. Students are presented with a case of a family business and are required to take the role of various types of advisors; Read More...
Category: Education and Teaching
Author: Marta Widz
By Alfredo DeMassis, Lorraine Uhlaner, Ann Jorrissen and Yan Du It's been generally accepted that family firms benefit from the perspectives of outsiders on the board of directors. Outsiders can Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Alfredo De Massis
Many family businesses grow and thrive in the first generation because of the passion and commitment of their founders. Successive generations often don’t share that same level of dedication, and Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Sabine Rau , Sabrina Schell and Arndt Werner