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Is a Board of Directors Really Necessary?

This is your baby, and you and your management team know best what the business needs. Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Kathleen Allen

RX for Success: Former MinuteClinic CEO Linda Hall Shares her Stories

I'm an associate professor at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management. Read More...

Category: Interviews

Authors: Daniel Forbes and Linda Hall

Colleagues Celebrate a Leader Who Empowered Others

Anderson worked at Best Buy for more than 35 years, serving as CEO (2002-09) and president and chief operating Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Daniel Forbes and James C Wetherbe

Women Entrepreneurs Have Limited Chances to Lead Their New Businesses

entrepreneurial teams can be reduced when people adopt organizational templates, such as signing a formal operating Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Howard E. Aldrich

Schulze Entrepreneurship Challenge Highlights e-Fest® 2018

Advisor:  Ian Grant An online platform for college students to help them manage how they get their Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: James Beal

Creativity: How to Nurture it, and Get it Back

From Elon Musk to Richard Branson to Steve Jobs, entrepreneurs are creative visionaries, able to see possibilities that have not been seen before. But fulfilling that vision also requires left-brain Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Christina Luconi

'There's No Birthright' and Other Tips for Raising Entrepreneurial Leaders

Joe Brito, the third-generation head of C.B. Utility Co. in Bristol, Rhode Island, started his career in the family business as a laborer.  He firmly believes that anybody entering their family Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

How 1,100 Family Firms Grappled with Covid-19

For family firms, the Covid 19 experience has been compared to being battlefield doctors: they are surrounded by trauma and uncertainty, and forced to make decisions without any precedent to guide Read More...

Category: Interviews

Authors: Mat Hughes and Torsten Pieper

The 'Fredo Factor:' How Deadbeats and Troublemakers Hurt Family Businesses

The Corleones of "Godfather" fame are an extreme example of a “family business.” But like many family businesses, they have a family member who is a serious hindrance to their business, is less Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Unlocking the Innovation Potential of Family Firms: An Assessment Tool

Yet family owners and managers fear losing control, undermining the family reputation, or compromising Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Emanuela Rondi , Alfredo De Massis and Josip Kotlar