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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The AI Academy – Understanding Artificial Intelligence and its Potential
Interview with Gianluca Mauro
Founder of the AI Academy
Gianluca Mauro first became immersed in AI after earning a Fulbright Scholarship and spending six months on...
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...
