3 Best Practices for New Product Development in Family Firms
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Family business governance can substantially influence the family firms’ ability to cope with novelty, uncertainty, and complexity, and thus play...
Four Ways Nepotism Can Hurt Your Family Business
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Few words in modern business culture carry as much stigma as that of “nepotism”. The word immediately harkens negative...
[Podcast] A 16th Generation Family Legacy
On the border to the Scottish Highlands, stands Scone Palace. Today, a historic five-star tourism attraction, Scone’s history traces back at least to the...
The Swatch Group: A Family Business That Saved a National Industry
There is a similar origin story to a lot of successful family owned business. You’ve probably heard it told many times over. A brilliant...
Five Shocking Mergers and Acquisitions by Major Companies
Earlier this year, American cable giant Comcast called off a potential merger with Time Warner Cable after coming under a firestorm of criticism from...
[Podcast] Horizons: Inspiring, Educating, and Connecting Next Gens
For family businesses, the challenge of integrating and passing on the business to the next generation is the single greatest issue they face. And...
The Stunning Collapse of the Once-Great Irving Empire
It’s not entirely uncommon to see a family owned corporation split up into separately owned divisions once it reaches the 3rd or 4th generation....
[Podcast] Scotland’s Family Businesses in a Post-Brexit World
Brexit is now a reality, and businesses across the United Kingdom are scrambling to deal with the implications of this geopolitical shift.
In this podcast...
The Hidden Diversity of Successful Family Firms
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Family businesses have not always been celebrated in management literature. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alfred Chandler, in his influential book The...
The Passing of an American Giant: David Rockefeller 1915-2017
The Rockefeller name is synonymous with American old money and blue-blood wealth & power. For most of the 20th century, the family name would...
