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One Family, Multiple Businesses: Preserving Harmony and Profits
For business or emotional reasons, sometimes one family ends up with more than one business under its umbrella. An entrepreneurial, ambitious family member may want to launch a new venture, or
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Interviews
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Kimberly Eddleston
How Family Firms Help Non-Family Employees Feel Like Family
Family businesses often behave in unique ways: They forego business opportunities to retain the family’s control over the business, stick to family traditions that are outdated, and prefer family
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Applied and Practice
From left to right, Kieran Culkin, Jeremy Strong, Sarah Snook and Brian Cox in HBO's "Succession." | Credit: Photograph by Graeme Hunter/HBO Editor’s note: This article
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Features
Author:
Richard Eisenberg
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
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Interviews
Author:
Kimberly Eddleston
Around the globe, more and more women are taking their careers in their own hands by launching a business. Women represent one of the fastest growing segments of the entrepreneurship population
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Commentary
How Family Businesses Survive Unexpected ‘Wild Cards’
EDITOR'S NOTE: This article was produced in partnership with the Journal of Family Business Strategy, a leading journal in the field of family business, as part of our mission to bring
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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
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Interviews
Author:
Kimberly Eddleston
Over the years, Noah Alper, 75, has started and run five businesses and a nonprofit school. Four of his ventures — including Noah's Bagels and the natural food and housewares chain Bread &
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Features
Author:
Richard Eisenberg
Your Family Needs An Emergency Succession Plan
As we all know successions are rarely easy, but unexpected transitions pose a significant risk to family businesses. When Herbert Fisk Johnson, Sr., the leader of SC Johnson, died unexpectedly in
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Commentary
Author:
David Deeds
Advice for Untangling Conflict in a Family Business
Janme Sinha became intrigued by family business dynamics when a distraught friend confided that his recently deceased father had left all of the shares of the family business to his brother. In
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Commentary
Author:
Kimberly Eddleston
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