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How to Fix Succession Conflicts Stemming From Complicated Families

We offer the following recommendations: Create a communication strategy. Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Leona Rethmann and Nadine Kammerlander

When Entrepreneurs Have Trouble with Monogamy: It's Their Cognitive Style

However, a growing literature recognizes that entrepreneurs are in fact heterogeneous with respect to Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Authors: Keith Brigham , Ritch Sorenson and James Hoffman

From Solo to Team: Helping Siblings Maintain Your Valuable Outside Relationships

However, our study of six Canadian firms that transferred their social capital reveals a strategy for Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Luis Cisneros , Bérangère Deschamps and Sebastien Geindre

For New Research Insights, Study One Family in Depth

Taking a cue from medicine, family business researchers can similarly look at how different strategies Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Lori Tribble Trudell , Theodore L. Waldron and James C Wetherbe

The Best Family Business Boards Embrace Candor and 'Necessary Endings'

Second of a two-part series From our studies evaluating the effectiveness of boards at family firms, we’ve seen first-hand how strong boards can help family businesses be more successful. In Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Claudia Binz Astrachan , Joseph Astrachan and Hermut Kormann

Five Things Family Businesses are Reckoning With Now

Family businesses everywhere are responding to Covid-19 in profound ways, balancing the need to preserve cherished family traditions and social capital against the mandate to control costs at Read More...

Category: Commentary

Authors: Mat Hughes and Alfredo De Massis