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Kimberly Eddleston
Schulze Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship / D'Amore-McKim School of Business / Northeastern University
AUTHORED RESOURCES
How Student Consulting Projects Can Transform Entrepreneurship Education
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Student teams help real entrepreneurs solve business problems while gaining hands-on experience in research, marketing, strategy and client management. Read More...
How Startups Can Outsource Without Losing Control of Their Business
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Outsourcing can give startups valuable capabilities, but close partnerships can become dangerous when trust replaces clear expectations and accountability. Read More...
How Frank DePasquale Built a Restaurant Empire in Bostons North End
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Frank DePasquale explains how he grew from one small restaurant to a collection of Boston eateries by learning constantly and building strong teams. Read More...
How Partnerships Helped Il Panino Grow From Struggling Startup to Successful Restaurant
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Il Panino owner Themistocles Vlahoulis explains how business students and a Boston restaurateur helped him improve marketing, solve business problems and open a second location. Read More...
Why Poornima Vijayashanker Left a Steady Job to Build Femgineer
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Femgineer founder Poornima Vijayashanker shares lessons on leaving a steady job, building a tech education business and why entrepreneurs should stay open to coaching. Read More...
How to Teach Product Retooling With the Lindt Candy Dilemma
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Students redesign Lindor truffles for new customers while learning product strategy, creativity, branding, packaging and advertising. Read More...
A TV Pitch Exercise for Teaching Family Business Management
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Students create and pitch a fictional family business TV series to apply lessons on succession, conflict, sibling rivalry, governance and family dynamics. Read More...
How to Test Market Demand Before Launching a Startup
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Crowdsourcing and other forms of customer feedback can help entrepreneurs gauge demand, uniqueness and appeal before committing fully to a new venture. Read More...
Five Ways Best Buy Builds Customer Loyalty Through Employees
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Best Buy improves customer loyalty by hiring well, training employees, expanding service, rewarding ideas and encouraging experimentation. Read More...
How the Fredo Effect Can Damage a Family Business
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The Fredo Effect occurs when an unqualified or disruptive relative keeps a job because of family ties, hurting coworkers, relationships and business performance. Read More...
Why Innovating in a Family Business Can Feel Like Playing Jenga
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Family firms are tightly connected systems. Changing one part can unsettle the rest, but avoiding innovation can be even more dangerous. Read More...
Why Family Business Classes Need Confidentiality Agreements
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Confidentiality agreements help students trust one another, share sensitive family experiences and learn more deeply from real family business challenges. Read More...
How Gender Bias Affects Loans From Family and Friends
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Women in the study received far less bank financing than men, while family and friends appeared to provide an important alternative source of capital. Read More...
What Justin Rockefeller Learned About Impact Investing
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Justin Rockefeller explains how families can pursue social and environmental impact without abandoning financial discipline or long-term investment goals. Read More...
Why Family Businesses Need Formal HR Policies
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Informal people practices can create favoritism, confusion and conflict. Formal HR rules help family firms treat employees fairly and improve performance. Read More...
Why Family Businesses Lose Valuable Non-family Executives
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A key executive quit after years of uncertainty about pay, ownership and succession. The case shows why family firms must communicate career paths before problems erupt. Read More...
Why There Should Be No Birthright to a Job in the Family Business
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Joe Brito says relatives should earn their place by starting at the bottom, learning the business and proving themselves before moving into leadership roles. Read More...
What Four Generations of Family Business Success Can Teach Us
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Joe Brito Jr. explains how work ethic, shared values, employee loyalty and community commitment helped his family business prosper across four generations. Read More...
How to Sell When You Have Never Sold Anything Before
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Steven Mould built Flint & Flame by combining confidence, passion and product belief with a willingness to listen to customers and refine the offer. Read More...
Starting Over: The Midlife Entrepreneur
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A former policeman talks about the challenge of launching his own company selling professional-quality artisanal knives. Read More...
Breaking Norms to Get Ahead: Do Women Entrepreneurs Need a Dash of Psychopathy?
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A 2016 University of Alabama Study concluded that women with a benign touch of psychopathy (callousness, ability to put aside emotions to do a tough job, not afraid to buck gender norms) are Read More...
Helping Women Entrepreneurs Succeed: What's Needed Now
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Women Entrepreneurs are growing in number, but much more needs to be done to support them and prepare future generations. Read More...
What Restaurant Owners Can Learn From DeWolf Tavern
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Restaurants build stronger businesses when they go beyond selling meals and create genuine relationships with guests and their communities. Read More...
#MeToo is Changing the Game for Startups
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New businesses today have both a mandate and an opportunity to build a workplace that not only complies with laws against sexual harassment, but also makes every employee feel respected, safe and comfortable. Read More...
What Family Business Owners Often Get Wrong About Financial Planning
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Entrepreneurs frequently underestimate their personal financial needs and fail to plan ahead for how the business will support them over time. Read More...
More Women Should Study Entrepreneurship
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Women have become a powerful part of the global economy, but many college and university entrepreneurship programs are not attracting them. In this interview with EIX's Kim Eddleston, Read More...
Venture Helps Artisans with Special Needs Find Markets
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Yad has a social mission at its heart: it aims to help Guatemalan artisans with special needs express themselves through art, and then find retailers who can help them reach markets for their work. Read More...
Mentorship Helps Mission-Driven Venture Thrive
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Vulnerable women living in Colombia are earning money and improving their lives through jewelry-making, thanks to Artyfactos. The company has found markets for the women's creations in the US and Read More...
When Should Entrepreneurs Listen to Mentors and When Should They Trust Themselves?
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Bernette Dawson explains how outside advice helped Made Organics grow while showing why founders still need confidence in their own judgment. Read More...
'Imposter Syndrome' Holds Back Entrepreneurial Women
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Many women who want to grow their businesses get in their own way because of how they see themselves. Here's how they can stop selling themselves short. Read More...
How Family Business Families Can Survive the Holidays Together
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Working together all year can make holiday tensions worse. Boundaries, patience, distractions and realistic expectations can make gatherings easier. Read More...
How Family Businesses Can Get Employees to Go the Extra Mile
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Employees are more likely to take initiative when family firms blend supportive collaboration with clear monitoring and performance feedback. Read More...
How Women Can Prepare to Lead a Family Business
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Future women leaders can build confidence and credibility through education, outside work experience and early encouragement to pursue leadership opportunities. Read More...
The 5 Mortal Sins of New Product Development
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Northeastern University Professor Stephen L. Golden discusses five mistakes that innovators and companies make that can doom a new product. Read More...
Turn Your Idea Into an Innovation
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Many blockbuster products and companies started with people who were not engineers, scientists or coders. Kimberly Eddleston reveals how they got help. Read More...
Family Business Professors: Resources For Online Learning
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Many professors are revising their courses for remote learning. Check out our free and peer-reviewed resources that can easily be used in an online course. Read More...
Professors Share Tips for Moving Online
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As classrooms close, teachers are moving classes online. Here are some tips from those who've made the transition. Read More...
Professors Share Best Practices for the Online Classroom
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Faculty and students around the world are making a huge transition. Using the right technology and supporting students will be critical. Here's some advice from professors who've learned what works. Read More...
More Advice for Engaging Students Online
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Now that you (successfully) moved your course online, this followup article offers more activities and techniques to incorporate. Read More...
What Family Businesses Should be Doing Now
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Threats to survival can push family businesses to reassess strengths and weaknesses, look for opportunities and challenges coming their way, and unite behind a challenge. Read More...
Be Part of An Important Survey About Coping With Covid-19
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We have a unique opportunity to learn from one another and generate new knowledge that will last generations. We need your help! Read More...
Food for Thought: Starting a Side Hustle While Working Full-time
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It's possible to start a business while working for someone else, and it can even make you look better to your current boss. But the risks can be great, too. Read More...
Women Can Cultivate a Leadership Presence
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Women are honing their business and technical skills in preparation for leadership, but many of them still struggle with how they communicate and present themselves. Despite their know-how they still Read More...
Back to School: Resources for an Uncertain Time
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Colleges and universities everywhere are grappling with how to teach in fall of 2020: online only, on campus or a hybrid. These articles will help entrepreneurship educators be prepared for whatever happens. Read More...
Family Members Can be Valuable Mentors
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Entrepreneur, philanthropist and author Simran Mohinani has great role models among her family members. She talks about balancing the family and mentor relationships and offers advice for future family business leaders and women. Read More...
Breaking the Glass Ceiling in a Family Business
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Despite decades of striving and some progress, women still face challenges. Outdated ideas about primogeniture and a woman's rightful place have not yet gone away, and women still feel too much pressure to prove themselves. Read More...
Daughters prepare to lead family firms
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Daughters are increasingly assuming leadership roles at family firms. In this video, two future business leaders talk about family expectations, their worries, their hopes for the future and the importance of knowing their value. Read More...
Startup Helps Military Spouses be Successful Entrepreneurs
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Many smart and talented military spouses are becoming entrepreneurs, a path that allows them to thrive professionally even when they can't stay in one place. Read More...
A Road Map for Resurgence
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With a vaccine on the way, we feel the best advice for 2021 is to focus on what comes next. These articles from the past year can inform your game plan for the post-Covid world that will dawn in a few months. Read More...
Team Exercise: How Parenting Styles Affect The Next Generation
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This experiential exercise is designed to enhance student learning about the four parenting styles and how they affect the dynamics within the family firm. Read More...
Listen to the Experts: How Family Firms are Surviving the Pandemic
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While some family businesses have closed their doors forever, others have successfully pivoted their business. Four experts discuss what they did right. Read More...
Family Firms Can Optimize Women's Strengths
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Women often juggle many roles in the business and the family, and typically shun the idea of power because they associate it with dictators and manipulation. Read More...
Female Advisors Can Help Family Businesses
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Women advisors can contribute unique perspectives that often emphasize synergies between the family and business. Read More...
Foundations Give Entrepreneurs a Channel for Doing Good
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Foundations provide a way for entrepreneurs to address societal problems or to help organizations focused on education, health care research or the arts. Read More...
Divorce Can Hollow out a Family Business — But it Doesn’t Have to
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It’s surprising how many business-owning families fail to properly plan for this worst case scenario. Here's advice from two experts about protecting the business. Read More...
She Always Gives Her All to the Family Firm -- but He Follows the Leader
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Women go the extra mile regardless of how they are treated by leadership. Men only exert extra effort in exchange for altruistic leadership. Read More...
What the Bob Ross Fight Can Teach Business Owners
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The fight over the beloved TV artist's estate is a cautionary tale for any business. How to protect your business and your heirs well before you die. Read More...
People With Disabilities Can Bring Strength to Your Business
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A more generous view of human capability helps companies access a wider pool of talent in an era of profound labor shortages. Read More...
The New Normal: Overcoming Post-Pandemic Challenges to Survival and Growth
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How to power through this new phase of supply chain problems, labor shortages, frozen networks and the "great resignation." Read More...
Lessons From the Perdue and Sheraton Families on Getting Along
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Mitzi Perdue, author of a book about family businesses and widow of Frank and daughter of a Sheraton Hotels founder, shares lessons about family harmony. Read More...
How Family Firms Can Prevent (or Cool Down) Sibling Rivalries
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Koch Industries, McCain Foods and Robert Mondavi were all roiled by sibling battles. These three strategies will help you prevent it. Read More...
Family Business Experts: How to Survive the Holidays
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We're republishing this popular article from year-end 2019, which includes timeless advice about getting along from our family business editors. Read More...
Strategies for Keeping Your Family Connected
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We continue our discussion with Mitzi Perdue, widow of Frank and daughter of a Sheraton Hotels founder, who shares what she's learned about family unity. Read More...
Fostering Diversity and Inclusion Can Be Good for Business
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It can bring stronger connections with customers, better problem solving and enhanced creativity. Here's how to get started. Read More...
Getting Along: Straight Talk from a Family Business Veteran
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Trust people. Walk around a lot so you meet more non-relatives. And don't show off your new car when the firm is tightening the belt. Read More...
Thought Leader Dennis Jaffe: What the Best Family Businesses Get Right
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Jaffe shares the insights gained from his research into family firms from around the world that have lasted at least three generations. Read More...
Family Firm Values Start at an Early Age
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Values, as Mitzi Perdue points out, help children become responsible stewards of the family business when it's their turn. Read More...
How the Next Generation Can Earn Legitimacy, Respect and Loyalty
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Succession can be rocky when the heir is viewed as entitled to the crown, rather than deserving of it. Author Bob Buday talks about how thought leadership can help. Read More...
Dealing with Inflation: Advice From the Experts
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Keep moving forward; adjust your product portfolio and brand; and manage your family and your money. Read More...
From Startup to Midsized Company: Managing the Growing Pains
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Startups and family firms with between $10 million and $1 billion in revenue, need different kinds of strategies and leadership, as Rob Sher of Mastering Midsized points out. Read More...
Growing Pains? Advice to Recharge and Sustain Growth
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A family firm that grows into a midsized company may be going through what Rob Sher calls the difficult Read More...
Non-Family Board Members Bring Perspective and Growth
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The 100-year-old Nielsen-Massey flavorings company, whose vanilla and other products can be found on store shelves everywhere, spiced up its management with non-relatives. Read More...
Should Your Next CEO be From Outside the Family?
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What happens when the best leader for your family business isn't part of the family? One company decided to look outside, and it improved family relationships. Read More...
How Family Businesses Can Attract and Keep the Best People
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We interviewed four founders of family businesses to learn about their challenges and what's working. Read More...
Family Business Professors: 40 Ways to Energize Your Class
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These free classroom exercises, interviews and other resources will add new energy, fun and inspiration to your students' course work. Read More...
Firm But Flexible Parents Raise the Best Family Business Leaders
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Overly strict and overly permissive parents are not doing their children or the family business any favors. "Authoritative" parents have the best results. Read More...
Advice for Untangling Conflict in a Family Business
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Janme Sinha of Boston Consulting Group talks about how soft emotional issues and hard business issues can tear families apart. Read More...
Should Family Members Be the 'Face' of Your Company?
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Making family members part of your business's image has both benefits and risks. How to weigh if it's the right move. Read More...
The Family Business 'Generation Gap' Can Undermine Success
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Money, opportunity and succession are all areas where the generations often don't communicate with each other. Professor Peter Jaskiewicz shares insights from his acclaimed new book. Read More...
Advice for Family Business Successors: Be Humble and Curious
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The bravado and doggedness that worked for Winston Churchill and Vince Lombardi won't work at family firms, which need a more supportive leadership style. Read More...
New Ways Business Owners Can Use Boards
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Boards can help family firms align the interests of owners and managers, and Read More...
Celebrating International Women's Day 2023
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EIX and familybusiness.org have a library of articles with research-based best practices for entrepreneurial women. Check them out here. Read More...
International Women's Day 2023: Resources for Family Business Women
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Familybusiness.org and EIX have dozens of articles sharing best practices for entrepreneurial women. You can find them here. Read More...
The Biggest Mistakes Family Businesses Make With Their Boards
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Family business researcher, lecturer and advisor Claudia Astrachan discusses the top mistakes family businesses make in staffing and interacting with boards, and how to do it right. Read More...
Wealth Can be Hazardous to Future Family Business Leaders
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Substance abuse problems, lack of motivation and failure to launch are just a few of the problems that can plague young people in wealthy families. A counselor weighs in. Read More...
FamilyBusiness.org's Editorial Guidelines for the Use of Generative AI Tools
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You are welcome to use these tools to help draft, revise, and/or expand on submitted articles -- but make sure you understand our rules. Read More...
FamilyBusiness.org Forges Alliance With Family Business Review
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Alliance will offer family-led enterprises around the world research-tested advice on how to build, manage and sustain vibrant businesses. Read More...
One Family, Multiple Businesses: Preserving Harmony and Profits
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Families with several businesses under their umbrella face competition for resources and family attention. The right governance can help everyone thrive. Read More...
'Succession' Hits Close to Home at Family Firms
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A family business advisor finds more than a few similarities between the HBO hit and real families. Here's how to minimize the rancor. Read More...
Family Offices: The Sober Guardians of Family Wealth
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Often an impartial third party is the best choice to manage the family wealth for future generations and the business's longevity. Read More...
Family Meals Ignite the Entrepreneurial Spirit
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Families with diverse education and industry experience fuel the fire of entrepreneurship, especially when they dine together frequently. Read More...
Helicopter Parenting Can Hurt Future Family Business Leaders
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A counselor's advice: Do less, say less and watch more. Let your children make mistakes and experience the consequences. Read More...
Do Family Meals Fuel Entrepreneurship in Family Businesses?
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Families with diverse education and industry experience fuel the fire of entrepreneurship when they dine together frequently. Read More...
Founders: Let Next-Gens be Entrepreneurial
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Rania Labaki, a professor at the EDHEC Business School in France and director of its Family Business Center, says that founders must allow their future leaders to have an entrepreneurial spirit. Read More...
Why Family Businesses Must Mind the (Generation) Gap
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Older leaders should be curious about how next-gens view the world, and younger leaders-to-be should have patience with their elders and honor what they've created. Read More...
How the Right Mix of Employee Incentives Fosters Innovation
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Whether your family business’s culture is traditional or modern, you can honor the past and still prepare for the future. Read More...
Build the Strong Family Bonds That Lead to Business Success
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Being emotionally or geographically distant can undermine the family's ability to work together productively. A family business advisor shares tips for success. Read More...
Let's Talk About Money -- and Trauma
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Childhood shapes how heirs view the family firm and the wealth it has created. Older generations must start the conversations that confront the issues. Read More...
Help Your Family Business by Helping Others
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Philanthropy can be a catalyst for leadership development, and generate support and good will towards the business in the community. Read More...
Here's Why Family Businesses Need Branding
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For family firms, branding is not about marketing but about reputation -- how customers, employees, suppliers and others perceive them. Read More...
Good Intentions Can Sow Dysfunction at Family Businesses
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A family business advisor talks about what well-meaning families get wrong about succession, conflict, and salaries, and what they can learn from watching Read More...
An Innovation Challenge Can Help Employees Feel More Connected
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A Minneapolis-based firm challenged employee teams to design and build something that would help people in their local community. Read More...
Family Business Patriarchs and Matriarchs: When Is It Time to Move On?
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The business may run smoothly; the heirs may be competent -- but is the older generation emotionally ready? An advisor weighs in. Read More...
Succession, Money, and Relationships Were Top-10 Topics in 2023
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Our site visitors cared about getting the next generation ready for leadership, having a plan in place, and minimizing conflict and money woes. Read More...
How to Defuse and Recover From Family Business Conflict
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A clinical psychologist and family business advisor shares tips for cutting through emotions and focusing on conflict rationally and productively. Read More...
Why Women CEOs Offer Family Businesses an Entrepreneurial Advantage
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Family firms, unlike non-family firms, value a learning-based path to entrepreneurship, which plays to women’s strengths. Read More...
Why Do We Treat Strangers Better Than Family Members?
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A family business consultant explores this question, and shares advice on managing conflict, setting boundaries, and cultivating more kindness within the family. Read More...
Research-Based Advice for Family Businesses: Our 10 Best-Read Articles
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We've partnered with top researchers to bring their insights to our wide audience of family business owners and leaders. These articles resonated the most with readers. Read More...
A Charismatic Family Business Founder Can Be a Tough Act to Follow
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For family businesses, a popular leader can bring many benefits, but can make it challenging to manage succession. An advisor offers strategies. Read More...
Family Business Succession: Your Questions Answered
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This new page of FamilyBusiness.org answers many of your most important questions about succession and has links to dozens of articles. Read More...
Twins Can Be a Family Business's Superpower
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While forever being part of a duo can be challenging, twins can bring many strengths to their family business when they are aligned with each other. Read More...
A Secret to Success: Family Business Centers
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While family members running a business together often lean on one another for advice, they can often learn best from people running other family businesses. Read More...
Daughter Continues Mom's Legacy of Helping Others
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Blessings in a Backpack can inspire any family-run business or organization that hopes to continue the founder's spirit and mission in the next generation. Read More...
Family Business Stories Build a Legacy For the Next Generation
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Books, websites, videos and blogs can capture a family business's saga, with all its challenges and triumphs, and shape a powerful legacy. Read More...
How Founders Can Stay Relevant When the Next Gen Takes Over
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A family business advisor says a change in leadership is like passing the baton in a relay race. Don't let go too abruptly. Read More...
Why Families and Their Firms Behave Badly
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Sometimes the worst behavior happens for all the right reasons. Putting "family first" can jeopardize the business's health and longevity. Read More...
'Performance-Enhancing Vices': Good for Business, Bad for Relationships
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Advisor and author David Werdiger talks about the business benefits and personal drawbacks of being selfish and stubborn. Read More...
I Banned Cell Phones In My Class: What Happened Next
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UNC-Chapel Hill Professor Howard Aldrich said focus and grades improved once cell phones were out of the picture…and students engaged with one another more. Read More...
Separate Family Offices Can Minimize Money Problems
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It can be dangerous to ask executive assistants or your CFO to manage your personal finances. A separate staff of calm professionals will help both business and family manage money responsibly. Read More...
Making the Leap: From Law Enforcement and Marketing to Business Owners
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Stephen Mould and Lisa Lazure, partners in business and life, left jobs in law enforcement and marketing to start a knife company. Read More...
How Boards Help Complex Family Firms Make Sound Decisions
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Fiduciary boards keep family firms focused on the long term, rather than on short-term, tactical strategies. But many family firms resist having one, fearful of losing control of their enterprise. Read More...
Hiring Mom and Dad? Optimize Their Strengths and Manage Boundaries
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Sharon Beck, owner of a Jovie Childcare franchise, shares her insights on the benefits and challenges of being your parents' boss. Read More...
Articles About Relationships, Succession Were Top Draws in 2024
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Many readers wanted advice about handling toxic family relationships, managing succession, and preserving the family’s values over time. Read More...
Announcing our 2023-24 Schulze Publication Awards Winners
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Each year, the Schulze Publication Awards celebrate the authors of the most impactful articles published on EIX and FamilyBusiness.org. These awards recognize exceptional thought leadership, clarity Read More...
Announcing FamilyBusiness.org's 2023-24 Schulze Award Winners
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Our newest group of winners — who published articles during the academic year of July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024 — represent a diverse range of insights. Read More...
The Perks and Pitfalls of Hiring Your Parents
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Allen Esrock of NxtGen Nexus weights in on how to optimize the free labor and other benefits, and how to manage conflicting goals, sibling resentment, and suspicious non-relatives who work for you. Read More...
Outsource or Hire? Advice for Family Businesses
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Ben Berger and Ron Nahass of RSM talk about the benefits of letting outside contractors handle critical business functions. Read More...
More Than an Entrepreneur: How Best Buy Founder Dick Schulze Saves Lives
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Along with funding worthy organizations and missions through his foundation, Dick Schulze also works behind the scenes to help individuals during a life-threatening health crisis. Read More...
The Emotional Downside of Exiting Your Business
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While the money is nice, selling a business is not a happily ever after. Depression is not uncommon. Read More...
All-Time Greats: Announcing Our Wetherbe Award Winners
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Authors of EIX and FamilyBusiness.org articles with extraordinary impact have received Wetherbe Thought Leadership Awards. We celebrate them in this issue. Read More...
A Family Council Can Help Larger Families Stay Connected
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Consider one if your family business has 15 or more relatives involved, or multiple generations. Read More...
Are Your Family and Business Thriving Together - Or Undermining Each Other?
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Like organisms in nature, the relationship between family and business can be mutually beneficial or detrimental. Here's how to strengthen both spheres. Read More...
Family Firms: Building Resilience Across Generations
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Building on three specific attributes -- long-term orientation, social capital, and values-driven governance -- helps families build strengths for generations to come. Read More...
Here Are the Next Gen's Biggest Worries
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Many want to know where they will fit in the family enterprise; how the wealth will be divided; and how the business will be governed as the family grows in complexity. Read More...
Invite Your Next Gens to Leadership
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A family business adviser shares how to improve family dynamics to help younger family members get ready for top roles. Read More...
Announcing Our 2024-25 Schulze Awards Winners
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These awards recognize exceptional thought leadership, clarity of perspective, and the ability to bridge research and practice. Read More...
How Families Can Move From Conflict to Forgiveness
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Set boundaries clearly and often, understand your own hot buttons, and be genuinely curious about why the other side thinks the way they do. Read More...
Family Businesses Must Prepare for the Unthinkable
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An unexpected death or disability can wreak havoc on a family business's best-laid plans. Read More...
How Leaders Can Transfer Their Great Instincts to Successors
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A leader's tacit knowledge can make the company more successful, but it's a challenge to understand what's behind it or how to pass it down to next-gens. Read More...
Lessons in Bootstrapping and Lean Startup From a Nonprofit
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How Give n' Glow grew -- from a Northeastern University dorm room to a thriving regional charity -- provides lessons for enterprises launching on a shoestring. Read More...
Always Putting Out Fires? Time to Rethink How Work Gets Done
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When every problem feels urgent, it often signals an inability to prioritize. Leaders need to identify why this is happening, and develop protocols for moving forward. Read More...
How to Grow Your Business Through Franchising
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Franchising was the key to growth for a new beauty company facing competition from established brands. Read More...
How Franchising Helped Chefs for Seniors Go National
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The Wisconsin-based family business providing home-cooked meals for the elderly discovered a nationwide need for their services, and used franchising to expand. Read More...
Give Future Leaders Exposure to Critical Roles
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A job rotation program gives next-gens both hands-on experience and a working knowledge of different departments and important outside relationships. Read More...
Should You Make 'Family Owned' Part of Your Brand?
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Family ownership can build trust, credibility, and customer loyalty—but only when it reinforces something stakeholders value. Here are five questions to ask first. Read More...
Want More Women in Entrepreneurship? Start With Female Role Models
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Working closely with women entrepreneurs increased entrepreneurial confidence in female college students —and made them more likely to begin their careers at young firms. Read More...
Can a Family Business Consultant Really Help? Nine Experts Explain What Families Often Miss
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Family business consultants often create their greatest value in unexpected ways: helping families uncover the real reasons they're stuck, have difficult conversations, and make better decisions. Read More...
EDITOR'S PICKS
No a**hole rule by Robert Sutton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS2GBq5lKAUThis video offers an overview of Robert Sutton’s Harvard Business Review article and book titled, “The No A**hole Rule.” It reminds us about the need to be civil in the workplace and not to tolerate bad behavior. From an entrepreneurship standpoint, it highlights the need for good leadership and the importance of creating an organizational environment that brings out the best in people.