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Pierre, a Swiss bakery co-owner for four decades, left his business behind when he reached age 65, the eligible retirement age in Switzerland. He was looking forward to leaving seven-day workweeks Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Valeria Alterman and Ariane Froidevaux
Noah Alper is best known for the business that bears his name: the West Coast chain Noah's Bagels. But he has started and exited several other businesses, including Bread & Circus, an East Coast Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Catherine Buday
Editor’s note: This article is co-written by a member of the board of editors at EIX.org from The Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation, which is a funder of a Next Avenue. The new, buzzy Netflix Read More...
Category: Features
Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Jonas Ruzek
It’s been proven that dedicated employees who go above and beyond what the job specifies help their companies be more efficient and keep customers happy. Other research has shown that leaders can Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Kristen Madison
Many entrepreneurs and business owners who've made it want to share their success with others. Donor-advised funds provide a simple way to give back to the world. With these funds, which are often Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
Interviewee: Kelly Webster
Based on interviews with 46 female family firm successors from 13 countries around the globe, we distill patterns of how the female successors were raised, how their career paths looked like, what Read More...
Category: Theory and Research
Authors: Nadine Kammerlander , Elizabeth Bagger , Doris Sommavilla and Sasha Lund
With Bill and Melinda Gates’ divorce making headlines across the globe, many are wondering how the split will affect their joint business dealings — especially the Gates Foundation, which they Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Kimberly Eddleston and Jonas Ruzek
Part two of a two-part series. As new cases of COVID-19 emerge around the world (as of late July, 2021), the disease continues to remind us that the only certainty is uncertainty -- a theme I Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: Mat Hughes
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 our Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Claudia Binz Astrachan , Joseph Astrachan and Hermut Kormann
Part one of two Eighteen months into the COVID-19 pandemic, we are seeing signs of a return to something resembling normality. Vaccination programs are now underway at a substantial pace, and Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: Mat Hughes