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Founder CEO Passion in Selling the IPO

On the one hand, the original founder can bring tremendous passion to the leadership role, showing their Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Michael Howard , Johannes Kolb and Valerie Sy

She Always Gives Her All to the Family Firm -- but He Follows the Leader

We asked the CEOs questions to gauge their organization’s leadership style, such the degree to which Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Kristen Madison

Millennials Can Help Family Firms Expand, If Led by Their Peers

This finding echoes the need to balance family involvement with external (non-family) leadership in family Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Alessandro Cirillo , Barbara Maggi , Salvatore Sciascia , Valentina Lazzarotti and Federico Visconti

Advice for Non-Family Executives in Family Businesses

At some point there will be a generational change, and the next generation will take over leadership Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Ritch Sorenson

How Values-Based Communication Can Promote Racial Justice and Equality

Do the values that we promote and uphold encourage and foster the very behaviors among our leadership Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Claudia Binz Astrachan , Angelo Perryman , Torsten Pieper and Howard Stevenson

How Family Firms Help Non-Family Employees Feel Like Family

, stick to family traditions that are outdated, and prefer family over non-family candidates in leadership Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

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

A Family Firm Can Be Both an Innovator and a Great Place to Work

Photo Courtesy of Carl Schlenk AG To thrive, family firms need to cultivate loyal, long-term employees, as they ensure a stable and reliable business. At the same time, family firms need to encourage Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Emanuela Rondi , Ruth Überbacher , Leopold von Schlenk-Barnsdorf , Alfredo De Massis and Marcel Hülsbeck

How 'Job Creators' Think

Much has been said about the importance of “job creators,” mainly small and medium-sized startups and businesses, as engines of economic growth. Far less has been said about the thinking Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Authors: Keith Brigham , Ron Mitchell and Jeff Stambaugh

Family Emotions Can Drive Business Decisions

decision-making for a long time, it can also morph into a motivator, especially for new generations of leadership Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Rania Labaki and Fabian Bernhard