AUS partners with Tharawat Family Business Forum to promote research on family-owned businesses
To provide a framework of cooperation and to facilitate collaboration in areas of interest, representatives of American University of Sharjah (AUS) and Tharawat Family...
91% of Middle East Family Business Have No Formal Succession Plan
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Despite economic uncertainty, almost two thirds (64%) of family businesses have grown over the past year, according to a new...
[Event] When the World of Family Business Comes to Vermont
Burlington, Vermont, a small city perched in the northeastern part of the United States, is slowly making a name for itself in the world...
[Book Review] Cross Cultures: How Global Families Negotiate Change Across Generations
Reviewed by Christian Stewart.
Imagine an ethnic Chinese business founder who arrives in Indonesia with nothing but the “shirt on his back”, who through hard...
[Event] Competing for Excellence – Family Enterprise Case Competition
Though the family-run enterprise has been a vital component of the global economy for centuries, it has rarely been recognized as an influential branch...
Family Businesses that Embrace Conflict Find More Success
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Conflict can actually be an asset to companies when it's effectively managed and properly resolved. This is according to...
“All Work, No Play” Stifling Family Business Growth
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Family business growth can be boosted if a ‘permission to play’ is encouraged in the workplace, according to Dani Saveker,...
[Event] The Family Enterprise Research Conference Comes To Burlington
As the family business topic continues to grow in prominence on the global stage, the 11th Family Enterprise Research Conference (FERC), has just wrapped...
[Book Review] Myths & Mortals: Family Business Leadership and Succession Planning
Reviewed by Joseph Horak
I was skeptical when I read the title of this book and what its purpose would be. The United State’s culture...
Understanding the Competitiveness of Family Business
The Thomas Schmidheiny Centre for Family Enterprise, Indian School of Business will be organizing the Sixth Asian Invitational Conference on Family Business from 3...
