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...
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...
Nova – Exporting Peruvian Innovation
Inspired by his boyhood experiences as an assistant to the local blacksmith, engineer Máximo San Román built a business developing machines for kneading, baking...
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...
ISKU – 90 Years of Family and Furniture
The design and manufacture of top-quality office furniture has been the Vikström family’s passion for 90 years.
ISKU, the Vikström’s business, has built a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
