Samuel Hubbard Shoe Company – The Extraordinary Story of How Bruce Katz Found His...
The diversity of the Katz family’s experience in the shoe industry is remarkable. From climbing the ladder into factory ownership and building boots for...
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...
Smith Family Business Initiative at Cornell – Leveraging the Power of Family Networks in...
Despite forming the backbone of the global economy, family businesses still have limited choices tailored to their specific needs and challenges in the education...
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...
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...
PSYCHOLOGY: How to Keep the Impostor Phenomenon from Holding You Back
More than 25 years later, Guy French (modified name) still remembers the unshakable feeling of dread. He had just begun his studies at a...
Dierks Farms – Innovative Family Cattle Farming
Blending automation and social media marketing with traditional farming practices, Dierks Farms is a fifth-generation family business that is redefining modern agriculture. After inheriting the...
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...