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A board’s oversight and guidance, based on the expertise, experience and personal qualities of its members, has always helped drive business success and survival. But now, as the COVID-19 pandemic Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Joseph Astrachan , Andrew Keyt , Hermut Kormann and Claudia Binz Astrachan
How to Care for Your Team During a Crisis This advice from one of our best-read articles in 2020 still rings true for startups, small businesses and family ventures trying to hang on until things stabilize. Walt Disney nailed it when he said Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Theodore L. Waldron and James C Wetherbe
Michael Cortelletti, owner and “Guardian Angel” of Food Democracy in Verona, Italy, has seen the affects of COVID-19 first hand, both as a business owner, and as a resident of Verona, Italy. As Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Daniel Van Der Vliet
The number of businesses run by women continues to grow – by 59% between 1997 and 2013 – and women now run between a quarter and a third of all private businesses worldwide. Yet their businesses Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Kimberly Eddleston , Jamie Ladge and Keimei Sugiyama
EDITOR'S NOTE: This article was produced in partnership with the Journal of Family Business Strategy, a leading journal in the field of family business, as part of our mission to bring Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Ines Herrero and Mat Hughes
Only about a third of family businesses make it to a second generation beyond the founder. Conventional wisdom says that these firms falter because the owners didn’t have a succession plan, or the Read More...
Category: Theory and Research
Authors: James Hoffman , Ritch Sorenson and Keith Brigham
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
It is well-known that only a small fraction of startups achieve long-lasting success. They often fail not because their idea is poor but because of problems executing on their idea. One area that is Read More...
Category: Theory and Research
Authors: Chuck Sacco and Aasim Sani
Many venture capital firms, business accelerators and other investors see the strength of the founding team as an important predictor of whether their investment will pay off. No wonder that many Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Kevin Bryan and András Tilcsik
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 century, Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Salvatore Tomaselli and Danilo Maurici