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It’s Complicated: Managing Succession in Cases of Divorce and Adoption

Part 1 of 2 --  Family business succession planning clearly is among a family business’s most challenging events and plenty of experts have weighed in on how to do it right. However, most of Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Nadine Kammerlander and Leona Rethmann

How Three Women Upheld Family Values and Thrived Despite Adversity

Family businesses are unique because the family values held by their founders shape the very fabric of the business. It goes without saying that finding ways to instill those values into the business Read More...

Category: Case Studies

Authors: Boyka Simeonova and Mat Hughes

Your Family Needs An Emergency Succession Plan

As we all know, successions and family business succession planning are rarely easy, but unexpected transitions pose a significant risk to family businesses. When Herbert Fisk Johnson, Sr., the Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: David Deeds

Strategies for Keeping Your Family Connected

  In her second interview with Familybusiness.org, Mitzi Perdue shares strategies from her book entitled How to Keep Your Family Connected. This workbook, which complements her book How to Make Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Family Business Experts: How to Survive the Holidays

While the holidays are supposed to bring magic and joy to people’s lives, they are also an immense source of family business conflict, anxiety, and stress. Family can be the root cause of this Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Family Business Succession Planning: 10 Golden Rules

There is no one-size-fits-all approach to family business succession planning. Every situation is different and every family is uniquely complex. However, some principles appear to transcend culture Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Tom Rüsen , Torsten Groth and Arist von Schlippe

Playing the Succession Game to Ensure Family Business Continuity

By Shital Jayantilal, Silvia Ferreira Jorge and Tomas M. Banegil Palacios Family businesses are especially conflict-prone, since sibling rivalry and other emotional undercurrents sometimes cloud Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Shital Jayantilal , Sílvia Jorge and Tomas M. Bañegil Palacios

How Family Dynamics Shape Family Businesses

In this interview, Joseph Astrachan – one of the world’s most well-versed experts on dealing with issues pertaining to business families – shares his thoughts on family dynamics and family Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Joseph Astrachan and Claudia Binz Astrachan

Surprising reasons owners exit family businesses

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 Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Authors: James Hoffman , Ritch Sorenson and Keith Brigham

Successful Successions are Never Smooth

Succession is one of the biggest challenges a family business can face. Many business owners and families assume that family business succession planning will be difficult, risky and conflict-prone, Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Claudia Binz Astrachan