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A study of 20,000 entrepreneurs reveals why training is not a silver bullet, and how family business experience helps women get more from support programs. Women often face barriers to financial Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Joyce Nabisaalu , Kanwal Bokhari and Myeongho David Park
A business sale changes more than ownership. Families must also rethink governance, roles, wealth, identity, and purpose after the company is gone. A family signs the sale of the company it built Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: Susana Quintás
When a successor becomes CEO, the title may change overnight — but authority, identity, and trust do not. Next-generation leaders must act like the CEO before they feel like one. A successor takes Read More...
Category: Practice Insight
Author: Dr. Benjamin Ritter
A stewardship climate, where employees feel trusted and truly valued, mobilizes nonfamily employees to defend the family firm against reputational threats. EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was produced Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Sarah Burrows , Craig Crossley , Catherine Faherty and Jim Combs
The most important investor may be your own successors. Investor readiness supports smooth transitions, builds trust, enhances enterprise value, and keeps strategic options open—whether you sell, Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Author: Michael Paull
Japanese family businesses are encouraged to help one another for the benefit of their shared customers and their community. It has helped them survive setbacks and thrive. Family businesses are a Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Sigrun C. Caspary , Tom Rüsen and Arist von Schlippe
Low trust, resistance to change, and intergenerational communication gaps can prevent new strategies and collaboration from taking root. Amid the picturesque artisan shops and robust industrial Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Ricardo Romano and Alessandra Bussi Moratti
Values can form a strong foundation for a family business. Through shared values, we feel united and form a bond of culture, history, and pride. This bond can motivate each member of the family to Read More...
Category: Practice Insight
Author: Eva Fischer Hansen
Small and medium-sized family businesses, which employed a large proportion of the labor force before the COVID-19 pandemic, are reeling from the post-pandemic challenge of retaining current staff Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Roland Kidwell and Victor Boyi
Those of us who work with family businesses are so familiar with these numbers that we often cite them without considering the source or the attribution. In the United States: Family businesses Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Author: Daniel Van Der Vliet