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How Older Family Businesses Can Keep the Magic Going

Many family businesses grow and thrive in the first generation because of the passion and commitment of their founders. Successive generations often don’t share that same level of dedication, and Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Sabine Rau , Sabrina Schell and Arndt Werner

Women Can Help Their Family Businesses Navigate Crisis

Women must also be given the resources, authority, knowledge, and skills to perform well (Yıldız et al Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Rania Labaki

Rural Entrepreneurs are Finding Success

Now 60+, she had a 30-year career in human resources, mostly at large companies around the country. Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Chris Farrell

How a Family Business Can Develop a Social Mission

And then they can invest a lot of resources in those areas and can really make a difference. Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Kerry Hannon

Our Best Advice for Powering Through the Crisis

Since March 2020 we’ve published many articles about how small businesses, family businesses and startups can survive this pandemic, build resilience and get ready for what comes next.  Here Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: David Deeds

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

Coronavirus: 10 Things That Family Businesses Can Do Now

Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks we will be publishing articles on familybusiness.org and EIX.org to help businesses weather the turmoil caused by COVID19. Visit our home page daily for more Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: David Deeds

Family Office Continuity in the Time of COVID19

As the Covid-19 virus spreads rapidly through the United States, most of the U.S. universities, businesses, government agencies, and school systems began a massive push to work from home or attend Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Hung-bin Ding and Dr. Rosa Nelly Trevinyo-Rodriguez

Serial Entrepreneurship: A Conversation with Noah Alper of Noah's Bagels

  Noah Alper is best known for the business that bears his name: the West Coast chain Noah's Bagels. But he has started and exited several other businesses, including Bread & Circus, an East Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Catherine Buday

The Potential Downside of Having Non-Family Board Members

downside: the presence of outsiders can be detrimental if CEOs are more reluctant to talk about finances Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Alfredo De Massis