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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
Interviewee: Angelina Kljat
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
Interviewee: Giovanna Campopiano
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
Interviewee: Simran Mohinani
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