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Growing Pains: Helping a Family Office to Evolve

As family groups and family offices grow, many SFO employees find it increasingly difficult to understand Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Torsten Pieper and Claudia Binz Astrachan

Generative AI Can Help Family Businesses Innovate and Grow

EDITOR'S NOTE: FamilyBusiness.org Senior Editor and EIX contributor Mat Hughes spoke with leading AI researcher and innovation expert Paavo Ritala on how new generative AI technologies like ChatGPT Read More...

Category: Interviews

Authors: Mat Hughes and Paavo Ritala

Surprising reasons owners exit family businesses

In addition, as organizational leaders play a decisive role in shaping their firms’ strategic directions Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Authors: James Hoffman , Ritch Sorenson and Keith Brigham

Women Show Their Strengths When Family Businesses are in Trouble 

cultures like this, men are anointed as the family business leaders and successors entitled to make key strategic Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Allan Discua Cruz , Eleanor Hamilton , Giovanna Campopiano and Sarah Jack

Will Your In-Laws Help or Hurt Your Family Business?

embraced family systems theory to reflect upon how the entry of an in-law into the family influences strategic Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Marco Mismetti , Emanuela Rondi and Cristina Bettinelli

From Solo to Team: Helping Siblings Maintain Your Valuable Outside Relationships

Two Types of Roles: Operational and Strategic In the companies we studied, prior to the succession the Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Luis Cisneros , Bérangère Deschamps and Sebastien Geindre

Developing Your Business Family Strategy: Where to Start and What to Consider

This is interesting given that as families grow, it can be more difficult to have a shared and united Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Tom Rüsen , Isabel C Botero , Arist von Schlippe and Torsten Groth

How Family Firms Help Non-Family Employees Feel Like Family

depicts dysfunctional dynamics and shows family members with limited or no merit eager to occupy strategic Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Peter Jaskiewicz , Josh Hsueh , Elizabeth Tetzlaff and Giovanna Campopiano

How Family Firms Can Prevent (or Cool Down) Sibling Rivalries

family’s business together, it becomes important to distinguish between “emotional” conflicts and “strategic Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Jonas Ruzek and Kimberly Eddleston

How Families Can Run Their Businesses With Both Head and Heart

Over a distinguished career, he has served as a strategic advisor, dealmaker, and financier to global Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Mat Hughes and R. Adam Smith