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Family firms where the departing CEO has mentored the successor enjoyed stronger return on assets. EDITOR'S NOTE: This article was produced in partnership with Strategic Entrepreneurship Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Fabio Quarato , Maria J. Sanchez-Bueno , Domenico Cambrea , Fernando Muñoz-Bullon and Mario Daniele Amore
Without a map for navigating emergencies and guiding successors after your departure, your business and your legacy could be left adrift. Imagine you're at the helm of a ship, sailing through calm Read More...
Category: Practice Insight
Author: Bradford C. Jeter, CEPA
Family business mergers enjoy greater harmony and better financial performance than mergers involving non-family firms. Mergers and acquisitions represent one of the most significant strategic Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Francesco Chirico , Robert E Hoskisson , Seemantini Pathak and Massimo Baù
Different ways of thinking shape how families make decisions, resolve tensions, and pass leadership across generations. Every family business has its own way of seeing the world. Some center around a Read More...
Category: Practice Insight
Authors: Tom Rüsen and Monika Nadler
You can support your business through economic uncertainty and maintain unity and commitment. Multigenerational enterprising families are not easily shaken. Over decades and sometimes Read More...
Category: Practice Insight
Authors: Joseph Astrachan and Claudia Binz Astrachan
Ben Berger and Ron Nahass of RSM's Family Office talk about the benefits of letting trusted outsiders handle critical business functions. Operational excellence -- involving people, processes, Read More...
Category: Interviews
Author: Kimberly Eddleston
Interviewee: Ben Berger , Ron Nahass
Being family-owned or socially responsible endears a business to consumers. Having both attributes mutes the impact of family ownership, and requires a different branding strategy. EDITOR’S Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Philipp Jaufenthaler , Roland Schroll and Dhruv Grewal
A trustee mentality helps make large families with many shareholders more cohesive, and preserves wealth for generations. Business families with many shareholders and family members who have remained Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Fabian Simons , Raphaëlle Mattart and Heiko Kleve
A handover often marks the end of life as the leader knows it and the start of a new and unfamiliar phase. A grieving process is not uncommon. For entrepreneurs, business shapes self-image and Read More...
Category: Applied and Practice
Authors: Simon Caspary , Tom Rüsen and Heiko Kleve
While male leaders often view stepping down as a threat to their identity and accomplishments, female leaders appear to be motivated by other factors. EDITOR‘S NOTE: This article was produced Read More...
Category: Research Insight
Authors: Nancy Forster-Holt , Jim Davis and Cassidy Creech