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Should Your Next CEO be From Outside the Family?

his two siblings wear -- as primary shareholders, directors and family members -- and how outside leadership Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

'Home Field Advantage' Works in Business as well as Baseball

Entrepreneurs with great ideas often feel they must pull up stakes and move to a region that is known as a hub for their specific industry.  But research that we published in 2012 suggests that Read More...

Category: Research Insight

Authors: Olav Sorenson and Michael S. Dahl

Innovation in K-12 Education: One District's Journey

Consistent with Kotter's advice, MPS assembled an Urgency Team, which was tasked with communicating a Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Daniel Forbes and Eric Schneider

A Life Linking Science and Practice: Remembering Andy Van de Ven

In this program, teams of researchers carefully followed the development of 14 different innovations Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Daniel Forbes

Restaurant Icon Frank DePasquale Shares Recipe for Success

Build a team of people who love the business as much as you do. Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Breaking the Glass Ceiling in a Family Business

Giovanna Campopiano of Lancaster University talks about her research into what holds women back from leadership Read More...

Category: Interviews

Author: Kimberly Eddleston

Surprising reasons owners exit family businesses

Only about a third of family businesses make it to a second generation beyond the founder.  Conventional wisdom says that these firms falter because the owners didn’t have a succession Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Authors: James Hoffman , Ritch Sorenson and Keith Brigham

How to Bridge Generations in a Family Business

This means all family members need to earn their right to management and leadership roles. Read More...

Category: Features

Author: Jessica Thiefels

Social Entrepreneurship Exercise: Developing your “Theory of Change”

For their term team project, I do not have my students—some of whom are freshmen—write a business plan Read More...

Category: Education and Teaching

Author: Sophie Bacq

Understand Your Family Firm's Core Strengths and Weaknesses

Learn More Unlocking the Innovation Potential of Family Firms: An Assessment Tool Outside Leadership Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Thomas Zellweger