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The Hybrid Workplace is Here to Stay: 5 Ways to Make it Work

changed tremendously over the past decades, with digitization profoundly changing the fabric of our social Read More...

Authors: Claudia Binz Astrachan and Lars B. Sonderegger

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

generations and challenging times by renewing and adapting its practices in coherence with the current social Read More...

Category: Research Insight

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

From Entitlement to Contribution

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching. -- Robert Bly A client told me once that all a family member needed to come Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Robert Caldwell

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

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

Imagine this not so uncommon family business situation. In a f ourth-generation family business, the transition between the previous generations always went from the father to son in the business: Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Sara Stern

How Family Firms Can Prevent (or Cool Down) Sibling Rivalries

Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, 36(2): 369-386. Federer, D. (2015, May 1). Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Jonas Ruzek and Kimberly Eddleston

What All Family Businesses Can Learn From the Merck Family

They regularly create opportunities to spend time together both socially (as a family) and formally ( Read More...

Category: Commentary

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

Green Giant: Grocer Scott Nash on Organic Growth

EIX's Dave Feldman talks with the founder and CEO of Mom's Organic Market, whose business started in his mother's garage and has grown like a beanstalk. A self-described former "juvenile Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Dave Feldman

What I Wish I Knew Before Starting a Business

More importantly though, when you're doing microbusinesses that have a social mission to them, understand Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Richard Eisenberg

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