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Dennis Jaffe is a thought leader on family businesses -- an organizational consultant and clinical psychologist, and one of the architects of the emerging field of family enterprise Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
In her third interview with Familybusiness.org, Mitzi Perdue shares strategies from her book entitled, " How to Communicate Values to Children So They'll Love It ." Values, as she points out, help Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
Your model for managing employees needs to evolve over time, and tough economic and competitive periods Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Emanuela Rondi , Ruth Überbacher , Leopold von Schlenk-Barnsdorf , Alfredo De Massis and Marcel Hülsbeck
interviewee, who described his parents as “strict but supportive,” said this translated to how he managed Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Kimberly Eddleston , Kristen Shanine and Kristen Madison
Family business managers and advisors must recognize that employees’ motivations and behaviors are different Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Kristen Madison
Every family business founded or led by a man eventually must go through a changing of the guard -- and today more women relatives are taking over the helm from a patriarch. Despite this Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
Business families tend to put family members in strategic management positions and aim to pass on the Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Peter Jaskiewicz , Josh Hsueh , Elizabeth Tetzlaff and Giovanna Campopiano
Imagine this not so uncommon family business situation. In a f ourth-generation family business, the transition between the previous generations always went from the father to son in the business: Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Sara Stern
The Corleones of "Godfather" fame are an extreme example of a “family business.” But like many family businesses, they have a family member who is a serious hindrance to their business, is less Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
Joe Brito, the third-generation head of C.B. Utility Co. in Bristol, Rhode Island, started his career in the family business as a laborer. He firmly believes that anybody entering their family Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Kimberly Eddleston