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What happens at a family firm with shared ownership and leadership? Matt Nielsen, Managing Director of Nielsen-Massey Vanillas International Europe, is candid about the disagreements and Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
In late May, Tesla Chairman Elon Musk stunned the world by announcing that Tesla employees must return to the office full time or lose their jobs. Moreover, as the leaked Musk email pointed out, Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Claudia Binz Astrachan and Lars B. Sonderegger
Over time, family firms often experience growing pains. The growth of their business may outpace their infrastructure and processes, or their infrastructure and processes may be stifling their Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
Gordon Davis and Jim Wetherbe at the Celebration of 50 Years of MIS at the University of Minnesota in 2018. It takes a Herculean entrepreneurial effort to create and sustain a new academic Read More...
Category: Commentary
Authors: Brian Janz and James C Wetherbe
Lavazza. Alessi. Olivetti. Campari. These brands evoke images of products, advertisements, or memories of our past: the aroma of Lavazza coffee or an Alessi coffee maker at work, the sound of keys on Read More...
Category: Commentary
Authors: Peter Trümmel , Vittoria Magrelli and Alfredo De Massis
With a great product, smart strategy and lots of hard work, a startup can mature into a midsized company, defined as a firm with between $10 million and $1 billion in revenue. This stage is Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
Around the globe, family businesses are grappling with the effects of inflation, now at its highest level in 40 years. A recent NFIB report noted that over 30% of business owners feel inflation is Read More...
Category: Commentary
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
The ultimate goal of many enterprising families is growing a prospering organization stewarded by a committed group of united family owners. And while many succeed in developing a successful Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: Claudia Binz Astrachan
Millennials, those born between the end of the ‘70s and the beginning of the new millennium, are accustomed to the limitless possibilities of the online world, where local or even country borders Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Alessandro Cirillo , Barbara Maggi , Salvatore Sciascia , Valentina Lazzarotti and Federico Visconti
In his book Lean Startup in Large Organizations , corporate innovation expert Jim Euchner offers a systematic approach to successfully implementing Lean Startup practices in established Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Catherine Buday and Jim Euchner