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Values can form a strong foundation for a family business. Through shared values, we feel united and form a bond of culture, history, and pride. This bond can motivate each member of the family to Read More...

Category: Practice Insight

Author: Eva Fischer Hansen

Small and medium-sized family businesses, which employed a large proportion of the labor force before the COVID-19 pandemic, are reeling from the post-pandemic challenge of retaining current staff Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Roland Kidwell and Victor Boyi

Those of us who work with family businesses are so familiar with these numbers that we often cite them without considering the source or the attribution. In the United States: Family businesses Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Author: Daniel Van Der Vliet

For this research, we surveyed over 1,000 family businesses around the world, with the objective to identify the most effective measures to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. What sets our research Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Author: Claudia Binz Astrachan

The coronavirus pandemic has had massive repercussions on the global economy and trade. Global  economic growth is expected to shrink by about 2 per cent per month, while global trade is Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Tulsi Jayakumar and Alfredo De Massis

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

Succession planning has been a heavily researched topic and buzzword for many years now. However, its lesser-known counterpart -- legacy planning – is becoming a part of many families' personal Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Aquesha Daniels, J.D.