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How 'Job Creators' Think

The decision to grow or not to grow one’s business is a conscious choice of the entrepreneur (Sexton Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Authors: Keith Brigham , Ron Mitchell and Jeff Stambaugh

Learn from Leaders #5: Growing the Business

  This is the final video in our exclusive series called "Learn from Leaders," featuring advice for early-stage entrepreneurs and innovators from founders and CEOs of groundbreaking Read More...

Category: Interviews

Authors: Daniel Forbes and Jon Eckhardt

Women Can Help Family Firms Innovate – but Socioemotional Factors Matter

Women can offer different perspectives than men and contribute to top management team's strategic decision Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Jonathan Bauweraerts , Emanuela Rondi , Paola Rovelli , Alfredo De Massis and Salvatore Sciascia

When Entrepreneurs Have Trouble with Monogamy: It's Their Cognitive Style

For intuitive entrepreneurs, the likely result is a growing cognitive misfit as the firm grows and matures Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Authors: Keith Brigham , Ritch Sorenson and James Hoffman

Delivering the Goods: An Interview with Best Buy and EIX Founder Dick Schulze

Do you have any experiences in your youth growing up that as you look back you can think, well there Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: James C Wetherbe

Entrepreneurial Brinkmanship: Lessons Learned from Best Buy and FedEx

However, as a successful startup grows, the advantage of nimbleness erodes. Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: James C Wetherbe

What All Family Businesses Can Learn From the Merck Family

Pharmacy] in the small German town of Darmstadt in 1668, he likely did not foresee his small business growing Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Tom Rüsen , Claudia Binz Astrachan and Frank Stangenberg-Haverkamp

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

Assessments Can Help Develop Family Business Leaders

  The company was growing 40% each year and the current president and CFO were ready to move on, Read More...

Category: Practice Insight

Author: Doug Gray, PhD

Understand Your Family Firm's Core Strengths and Weaknesses

However, looking into the wide and growing family business literature, I would say that family firms Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Thomas Zellweger