Les Mills – A Family in Fitness for Three Generations
Understanding the transformative power of group fitness helped Phillip Mills, the Managing Director of Les Mills, grow his family’s New Zealand-based gym business across...
Carbon Capture in an Environmentally Conscious Era
It was a landmark achievement. By ratifying the Paris Agreement on December 12th, 2015, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) set...
ARCO Group and Nigeria’s Continuously Evolving Oil and Gas Industry
In Nigeria’s booming oil and gas industry, the ARCO Group is atypical in its family-ownership and operation. Multinationals like Shell and ExxonMobil have a...
Impact Investment – Financially Sound Companies Contributing Positive Change to the World
Impact investing is a relatively new phenomenon but holds the potential to radically change the entire investment landscape. With a focus on positive social...
PAUL – The Global Bakery
Instantly recognised by its stylishly minimalist signage: elegant white lettering on a clean black background, bakery Paul boasts over 700 sales points on four...
Five Steps to Success
Ann Sophie K. Löhde
Associate CEO at aiso-lab GmbH, Senior Research Fellow at WIFU Witten Institute for Family Business
Dr Giovanna Campopiano
Associate Professor of Family...
Disruption of Industries – The Impact of the AI Revolution
Long before MIT computer scientist John McCarthy coined the term artificial intelligence in 1956, we were fascinated by the idea of machines with human...
STRATEGY: The Emergence of Holding Companies
Holding companies are an interesting legal construct – they are not operational, so do not provide a product or service – but their business...
Longevity in the Family Business Context
Judy Green, PhD, is president of the Family Firm Institute, an international professional association of individuals and organisations that advise and study multi-generational family...
Toys – More than Just Fun and Games
The Argentinian company Juguetes Rasti was founded in 1965 by Antonio Dimare, an Italian immigrant with a passion for making toys. The original Rasti...
