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Why There Should Be No Birthright to a Job in the Family Business

Joe Brito says relatives should earn their place by starting at the bottom, learning the business and proving themselves before moving into leadership roles. Joe Brito, the third-generation head of Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Interviewee: Joseph Brito, Jr.

Why Family Businesses Need Both Accountability and Collaboration

Strong family firms hold employees accountable while preserving trust, harmony and flexibility. Combining both approaches can improve employee effort and performance. Family businesses have unique Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Roland Kidwell and Kathryn Kloepfer

An Interview with David Teece, a Practicing Business Intellectual

Professor David Teece is one of the impactful business scholars of his generation. His research has been cited over 128,474 times according to Google Scholar. His work is required reading for Ph.D. Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Jon Eckhardt

Schulze Entrepreneurship Challenge Highlights e-Fest® 2018

Sponsored by the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation, the Schulze School of Entrepreneurship at the University of St. Thomas, and EIX.org, a non-profit online platform for entrepreneurship Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: James Beal

What Justin Rockefeller Learned About Impact Investing

Justin Rockefeller explains how families can pursue social and environmental impact without abandoning financial discipline or long-term investment goals. Perhaps no other family is more synonymous Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Interviewee: Justin Rockefeller

Social Entrepreneurship Exercise: Developing your “Theory of Change”

The Theory of Change is a tool that is widely used among social entrepreneurship (SE) practitioners to map out the steps that will lead them to have the intended positive change on society. The Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Sophie Bacq

'Home Field Advantage' Works in Business as well as Baseball

Entrepreneurs with great ideas often feel they must pull up stakes and move to a region that is known as a hub for their specific industry. But research that we published in 2012 suggests that they Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Olav Sorenson and Michael S. Dahl

How the Fredo Effect Can Damage a Family Business

The Fredo Effect occurs when an unqualified or disruptive relative keeps a job because of family ties, hurting coworkers, relationships and business performance. The Corleones of "Godfather" fame are Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

How a Fictional Bourbon Family Can Teach Family Business Management

This flexible classroom exercise lets students shape a fictional bourbon family business while applying family business concepts throughout the semester. Many of us may remember the “Choose Your Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Whitney Peake and Teran Sundy

Is a Board of Directors Really Necessary?

Arguably, no CEO anywhere doesn’t occasionally wish that he or she didn’t have to deal with a board of directors. You’re the CEO! The visionary leader! This is your baby, and you and your Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Kathleen Allen