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Understand Your Family Firm's Core Strengths and Weaknesses

It's been said that, “Once you have seen one family firm, you have seen just one family firm.” While it’s popular to say that every family firm is unique, as a researcher I take issue with the Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Thomas Zellweger

Startups Can Attract Employees and Financing Through 'Borrowed' Reputations

New firms must attract two kinds of resources: talent and money. A recent study that I conducted with Tom Vanacker of Ghent University explored how a new firm's affiliations with venture capital Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Daniel Forbes

How Gamification Can Help Family Businesses

Conceptualization that is induced by the play (Kolb & Kolb. 2005). This study echoes the thesis of John Dewey (1916), one of the most influential thinkers in educational theory in the 20th Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Salvatore Tomaselli and Danilo Maurici

#MeToo is Changing the Game for Startups

  The #MeToo era has created new challenges for entrepreneurs and startups. Cautionary tales abound of startups whose hard-partying culture resulted in sexual harassment, hostile work Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

How to Grow Your Family Business

This article is part of America’s Entrepreneurs , a Next Avenue initiative made possible by the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation and EIX, the Entrepreneur and Innovation Exchange .) Taking a Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Kerry Hannon