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With family-owned businesses accounting for a whopping share of the economy, the nature of family members’ individual career development in that sector is important and interesting. How indeed do Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Leona Achtenhagen , Kajsa Haag , Kajsa Hultén and Jen Lundgren
Climate change has made preserving the environment a critical issue for citizens, governments, and corporations. This is especially true at family businesses, where the family’s desire to Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Jonathan Bauweraerts , Unai Arzubiaga and Vanessa Diaz Moriana
Family businesses are unique because the family values held by their founders shape the very fabric of the business. It goes without saying that finding ways to instill those values into the business Read More...
Category: Case Studies
Authors: Boyka Simeonova and Mat Hughes
As global crises are becoming increasingly frequent and unpredictable, family ties and family relationships—or what are collectively called “family social capital”—become critical for the Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Elias Hadjielias , Louise Scholes and Mat Hughes
As we all know, successions and family business succession planning are rarely easy, but unexpected transitions pose a significant risk to family businesses. When Herbert Fisk Johnson, Sr., the Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: David Deeds
Like almost all family businesses, Commercial Casework in Hayward, California had to plan for when family owners would want to sell. The company, with about 100 employees, is one of the San Francisco Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Corey Rosen
Around the globe, advertisements for family businesses regularly include expressions like: “Our family serving yours for the last three generations” and, “Our name on the product guarantees its Read More...
Category: Commentary
Authors: Jonas Ruzek , Ben Cooper and Kimberly Eddleston
Janme Sinha became intrigued by family business conflict and dynamics when a distraught friend confided that his recently deceased father had left all of the shares of the family business to his Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
Interviewee: Janme Sinha
Should family members work outside the family business before joining? Experts have long recommended that this is the best (and only!) way for the next generation to learn the skills and knowledge Read More...
Category: Commentary
Authors: Joseph Astrachan , Isabel C Botero , Carol Wittmeyer and Claudia Binz Astrachan
Between COVID, supply chain issues, armed invasions, unstable markets, and the great resignation with millions of workers leaving the workforce (Parker & Menasce Horowitz, 2022) – or, more Read More...
Category: Commentary
Authors: Lars B. Sonderegger , Claudia Binz Astrachan and Joseph Astrachan