Four Ways Nepotism Can Hurt Your Family Business
Few words in modern business culture carry as much stigma as that of “nepotism”. The word immediately harkens negative feelings of corruption, unfairness, and...
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...
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The Hidden Diversity of Successful Family Firms
Family businesses have not always been celebrated in management literature. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alfred Chandler, in his influential book The Visible Hand, characterized family-run...
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...
The Global Culture of Giving: Four Key Trends You Need to Know
Over the last decade, we've seen a remarkable development in philanthropy: the emergence of a global culture of giving among leading wealth holders. Younger...
How to Use Family Business History as a Strategic Resource
Ludovic Cailluet is Professor of Strategy and Business History and member of the EDHEC Family Business Centre at EDHEC Business School. In this interview,...
Starbucks Prepares for Life Without Iconic CEO Howard Shultz… Again
It may be the hardest thing any self-made CEO Billionaire has to do. After a lifetime spent building, growing and nurturing the business, they...
A 3rd Generation CEO’s Conflict of Interests – The Troubling Story of Fidelity Investments
The challenge that a third generation family business CEO has in keeping the empire afloat in an environment far different from that of its...
The Women of Prada Who Built an Empire
The early twentieth century was a time when a number of top European family business brands can trace their roots to. Certainly a more...
GCC Family Businesses and the Urgency of Diversification
“Each of the Gulf states has developed long-term strategies, using different combinations of vertical and horizontal diversification. But the region has yet to take...
4 Ways Family Businesses Can Tackle The Missing Middle
Over the past decade, we’ve surveyed founders, next gens, and CEOs of family-owned firms. Their responses over time have underscored several evergreen qualities that...
Aldi: How a Divided Family Business Emerged Stronger than Before
The dream of owning a family business is often borne from the idea of brother working besides brother or parents beside children as they...
