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It’s Complicated: Managing Succession in Cases of Divorce and Adoption

Part 1 of 2 --  Family business succession planning clearly is among a family business’s most challenging events and plenty of experts have weighed in on how to do it right. However, most of Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Nadine Kammerlander and Leona Rethmann

Family Business Succession Planning: 10 Golden Rules

When issues of succession arise, families tend to concentrate on the operating business, since it demands Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Tom Rüsen , Torsten Groth and Arist von Schlippe

Keep the Founder's Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive in Future Generations

The rising generation may have contemplated their own role as future leaders of the operating business Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: David Werdiger

How to Plan for a Successful Succession

“Generally, most family business owners find themselves so involved in the day-to-day operations, they Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Richard Eisenberg

Advice for Family Business Successors: Be Humble and Curious

  David Bentall found out the hard way that his leadership of his family's construction and real estate firm wasn't working: his own uncle removed him from the company. Losing his job was a Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Successful Successions are Never Smooth

Prepare Current and Future Leaders Timing is critical when managing change in top management. Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Claudia Binz Astrachan

'Succession' Hits Close to Home at Family Firms

patriarch Logan Roy and his family can plague real-life family firms -- if they don't invest time in managing Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Succession Planning Should Start Earlier Than You Think

shares her insights from a rich study of succession among family businesses and the steps taken to managing Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Mat Hughes and Mira Bloemen-Bekx

How to Fix Succession Conflicts Stemming From Complicated Families

In order to ensure longevity of the family business, these challenges have to be managed in a sustainable Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Leona Rethmann and Nadine Kammerlander