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8 More World Changing Innovations by Family Companies
Disruptive innovations help create a new market and value network and eventually disrupt an existing market or Industry. It usually comes with the consequence of substituting an earlier solution or technology.
In this list, we...
8 Amazing Disruptive Innovations by Family Businesses
We live in an age of disruptive innovations. Take a quick look around you and witness companies such as Uber or Airbnb disrupt entire industries by redefining established supply networks and opening up the...
Successful Mistakes and the Value of Perseverence
The entrepreneurial journey of Qais Al Khonji, Founder of Genesis Projects & Investments LLC - EOR Lab Services, Oman
Qais Al Khonji did not have to take the risk of becoming an entrepreneur. In fact,...
Finding a Non-Family CEO: The Debbas Family Journey
The Debbas family business recently celebrated its 100th anniversary. For decades the family name has stood for providing quality lighting solutions in Lebanon and the Middle East and today the family works in the...
Make It Happen HOLDAL 2020: The Unconventional Ways of the Abou Adal Family
Interview with Maissa Abou Adal Ghanem and Nour Abou Adal, HOLDAL Abou Adal Group, Lebanon
The Abou Adal family stands apart from their competition due to their ability of doing things differently, a notion, which...
Two Families, Six Decades, and Thousands of Cars
Interview with Mia Bassoul and Albert Bassoul
Beirut-based family business Bassoul-Heneine is one of Lebanon’s leading car dealerships. Established in the early 1950s as a joint company between two families, the business flourished by delivering...
Growth in Family Businesses – The Case of Lebanon
The Lebanese economy is dominated by family-owned businesses of all sizes. They operate under extraordinary circumstances and many of them have emerged triumphant surviving wars and recessions. What are the key facts that define...
Family Firms Facing Disruptive Innovation – 6 Facts to Bear in Mind
Form follows function, structure follows strategy, and everything follows a purposeful leader. Such is the distilled wisdom from many years of managerial studies regarding successful organisational adaption to change. And, today, when change is...
A Family in the Business of Disruption
Interview with Nick Bloor, Founder of Technigro and the IVM Group, Australia
Nearly three decades ago, at the age of 19, Nick Bloor dropped out of law school in order to pursue his dream of...
Why Family Businesses Disrupt – Or Not
Family firms would not survive across multiple generations without the ability and willingness to innovate and adapt to changing circumstances. In fact, countless revolutionary inventions that have changed the course of industries and history...
Diamonds Last Forever – Graff Diamonds
Interview with Francois Graff, Chief Executive Officer of Graff Diamonds
Laurence Graff was only 15 years old when his life long passion for diamonds began. He started work as an apprentice at a London-based jeweller....
The Tale of Gebr. Heinemann: Of Brothers, Cousins, and Duty Free Shopping
The Tale of Gebr. Heinemann
Anyone who has travelled by plane knows the great temptation which awaits after having completed the all too often stressful routine of the security check: The guilt free experience of...
