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COVID-19: Understanding the Board’s Key Role During a Crisis

Consider a Full Stop An axiom of crisis management is that it's like driving into an impermeable wall Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Joseph Astrachan , Andrew Keyt , Hermut Kormann and Claudia Binz Astrachan

Why Does EOS/Traction Work So Well for Family Businesses?

 This family business decided to implement the Entrepreneurial Operating System to help them answer Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Sara Stern

Developing responsible owners in family business

on strategies for increasing shareholder value and streamlining business operations. Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Torsten Pieper and Joseph Astrachan

Surprising reasons owners exit family businesses

  Research on owner-manager experience has suggested that owner-managers who stay in one business Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Authors: James Hoffman , Ritch Sorenson and Keith Brigham

Family Businesses Must Plan for the Unthinkable

By challenging management and helping leaders improve, the board should always be helping prepare the Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Joseph Astrachan

Three Strengths that Can Help Family Firms Survive Covid

  In the case of Malden Mills it is interesting to note that during first year of operation after Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Doug Baumoel

Entrepreneurial Brinkmanship: Lessons Learned from Best Buy and FedEx

In these cases, startup management must often play the game of brinkmanship, pushing events to near disaster Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: James C Wetherbe

To Engage Business Students, Roll Out 'the Barrels'

this exercise is to provide a platform for students to use their creativity in a family business management Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Authors: Whitney Peake and Teran Sundy

A Father/Son Sitdown: Howard and Steven Aldrich

  He has learned much about the challenges not only of starting a new business, but also managing Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Howard E. Aldrich

5 Ways Family Businesses Can Adapt to Covid-19

Around sixty percent of our survey respondents say they have reduced or shifted operating expenses to Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Kerry Hannon