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Should Your Next CEO be From Outside the Family?

In her discussion with Matt Nielsen of Nielsen-Massey Vanillas International, Editor Kimberly Eddleston goes into a sensitive topic for many family firms: whether an outside leader is better equipped Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Technical Specialized Knowledge and Founder Leadership at Initial Public Offering

The research shows that factors that predict founder succession differ across executive positions. Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Authors: Jon Eckhardt , Marc Junkunc and Mingxiang Li

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

are often detailed in the popular press and serve as inspiration for television series like HBO’s Succession Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Jonas Ruzek and Kimberly Eddleston

How Family Firms Help Non-Family Employees Feel Like Family

profitability.A recent fictional example is the Roy family from the award-winning HBO television series "Succession Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Peter Jaskiewicz , Josh Hsueh , Elizabeth Tetzlaff and Giovanna Campopiano

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

How Family Businesses Survive Unexpected ‘Wild Cards’

survive such long periods, family firms need to successfully manage operational performance and succession Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Wojciech Czakon , Monika Hajdas and Joanna Radomska

The Biggest Mistakes Family Businesses Make With Their Boards

Family business researcher, lecturer, and advisor Claudia Binz Astrachan has studied first-hand how effective boards of directors steer family business management towards strategies that make the Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

The Spectacular Rise of the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry

In India, this “MNE-partnership model” has been documented in the well-known (and successful) IT sector Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Authors: Kristin Brandl , Ram Mudambi and Vittoria G. Scalera

What Makes Founders Leave Their Companies?

Correctly timing a chief executive officer’s (CEO) succession is very important for firms, because CEO Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Joon Mahn Lee , Dalee Yoon and Steven Boivie

My Entrepreneurship Journey: Ireland to the Middle East and America

A successful farming family in County Antrim, Northern Ireland wanted to hire workers to join their company Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Kieran Folliard and Eapen Chacko