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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
