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Sinking ship? How one family firm sailed through several crises

Get help from outside advisors about managing stakeholders, but be true to yourself and innovate through Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Author: Mat Hughes

Getting Your Family Business Ready for the 'New Normal'

presentation to the Institute for Family Business Research Foundation and Lancaster University Management Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Mat Hughes

Doing Good Can Be Good Business

A good friend of mine who is a new product manager in a firm told me that he is engaging his 10-year-old Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Whitney Peake

Listen to the Experts: How Family Firms are Surviving the Pandemic

They often offer valuable lessons about how the family business managed to overcome past challenges, Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

The stimulus package and family businesses

The economic stimulus plan signed into law on March 27 puts the Small Business Administration in charge of disbursing financial aid to small businesses hurt by the coronavirus pandemic. It Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: David Deeds

To Survive a Crisis, Re-Think Your Family’s Ties

  Family business owners and managers should proactively manage the identification of family members Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Elias Hadjielias , Louise Scholes and Mat Hughes

Be Part of An Important Survey About Coping With Covid-19

While the pandemic has created economic turmoil, family and business disruption, and challenges that could last a lifetime, it also presents a unique opportunity to learn and improve family business Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

How 1,100 Family Firms Grappled with Covid-19

For family firms, the Covid 19 experience has been compared to being battlefield doctors: they are surrounded by trauma and uncertainty, and forced to make decisions without any precedent to guide Read More...

Category: Interviews

Authors: Mat Hughes and Torsten Pieper

Five Things Family Businesses are Reckoning With Now

  Family businesses everywhere are responding to Covid-19 in profound ways, balancing the need to preserve cherished family traditions and social capital against the mandate to control costs at Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Mat Hughes and Alfredo De Massis

What Families in Conflict Can Learn from Baseball and Teachers

the author of this section, is a retired federal mediator of over 1,000 disputes involving labor-management Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Michael Carrell and Louis Manchise