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Learn from Leaders #5: Growing the Business

  This is the final video in our exclusive series called "Learn from Leaders," featuring advice for early-stage entrepreneurs and innovators from founders and CEOs of groundbreaking Read More...

Category: Interviews

Authors: Daniel Forbes and Jon Eckhardt

A Road Map for Resurgence

The end of the year is typically a time to for EIX and familybusiness.org to showcase their best-read articles from the past year in several broad themes: evaluating opportunities, financing, Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Daniel Forbes

Developing responsible owners in family business

“When owners start talking about their rights rather than their responsibilities, a family business is in trouble“.  (Smith Lanier) Introduction Management and organization research and Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Torsten Pieper and Joseph Astrachan

How Values-Based Communication Can Promote Racial Justice and Equality

These are turbulent times. Battered from the pandemic’s economic hardship, and following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020, citizens of all races, ages and other Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Claudia Binz Astrachan , Angelo Perryman , Torsten Pieper and Howard Stevenson

What Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Kiwi Crisis Management

Entrepreneurs often face critical decisions for their firms in the midst of considerable uncertainty and great risk. Effective crisis management requires that decision makers make choices even when Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Jamie D. Collins

Which Kinds of Workers Leave Family Firms?

Working in a family firm can be either satisfying or stifling for someone who’s not a relative. Interpersonal relationships can be stronger than they would be in non-family firms, and the work Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Franz Kellermanns , Nicole Gottschalck and Christina Guenther

What Family Businesses Should be Doing Now

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

Take a CLEAN Look at Your Business Post-COVID-19

EDITOR'S NOTE: This very popular article, published in 2020 during the height of the pandemic, includes timeless advice for helping startups, small businesses and family firms learn from adversity Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Dave Ketchen and Christopher Craighead

A Guide to Round 2 of the Stimulus

On April 24, 2020 President Trump signed the second tranche of small business loans into law, providing $310 billion more for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and $60 Billion for the Economic Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: David Deeds

Say Goodbye to Handshakes and Hugs

I sent my nephew, a hospital-based internal medicine doctor, a text to let him know I was thinking of him. At the end of the text, I added “sending a big hug,” my usual Aunt Paula Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Paula Caligiuri