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...
The Global Culture of Giving: Four Key Trends You Need to Know
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Over the last decade, we've seen a remarkable development in philanthropy: the emergence of a global culture of giving among...
How to Use Family Business History as a Strategic Resource
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Ludovic Cailluet is Professor of Strategy and Business History and member of the EDHEC Family Business Centre at EDHEC Business...
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
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“Each of the Gulf states has developed long-term strategies, using different combinations of vertical and horizontal diversification. But the...
4 Ways Family Businesses Can Tackle The Missing Middle
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Over the past decade, we’ve surveyed founders, next gens, and CEOs of family-owned firms. Their responses over time have underscored...
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...
