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COVID-19: Understanding the Board’s Key Role During a Crisis

A board’s oversight and guidance, based on the expertise, experience and personal qualities of its members, has always helped drive business success and survival. But now, as the COVID-19 pandemic Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Joseph Astrachan , Andrew Keyt , Hermut Kormann and Claudia Binz Astrachan

This badge is awarded for articles reaching 250000 views. How to Care for Your Team During a Crisis

This advice from one of our best-read articles in 2020 still rings true for startups, small businesses and family ventures trying to hang on until things stabilize. Walt Disney nailed it when he said Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Theodore L. Waldron and James C Wetherbe

Worth Sharing: An Italian Entrepreneur Confronts the Crisis

Michael Cortelletti, owner and “Guardian Angel” of Food Democracy in Verona, Italy, has seen the affects of COVID-19 first hand, both as a business owner, and as a resident of Verona, Italy. As Read More...

Category: Commentary

Author: Daniel Van Der Vliet

'Imposter Syndrome' Holds Back Entrepreneurial Women

The number of businesses run by women continues to grow – by 59% between 1997 and 2013 – and women now run between a quarter and a third of all private businesses worldwide. Yet their businesses Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Kimberly Eddleston , Jamie Ladge and Keimei Sugiyama

Too Much Love in the Family Can Hurt

EDITOR'S NOTE: This article was produced in partnership with the Journal of Family Business Strategy, a leading journal in the field of family business, as part of our mission to bring Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Ines Herrero and Mat Hughes

Surprising reasons owners exit family businesses

Only about a third of family businesses make it to a second generation beyond the founder. Conventional wisdom says that these firms falter because the owners didn’t have a succession plan, or the Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Authors: James Hoffman , Ritch Sorenson and Keith Brigham

Understand Your Family Firm's Core Strengths and Weaknesses

It's been said that, “Once you have seen one family firm, you have seen just one family firm.” While it’s popular to say that every family firm is unique, as a researcher I take issue with the Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Author: Thomas Zellweger

Founderitis: A Silent Killer of Startups

It is well-known that only a small fraction of startups achieve long-lasting success. They often fail not because their idea is poor but because of problems executing on their idea. One area that is Read More...

Category: Theory and Research

Authors: Chuck Sacco and Aasim Sani

Does it Matter if an Entrepreneur is Coachable?

Many venture capital firms, business accelerators and other investors see the strength of the founding team as an important predictor of whether their investment will pay off. No wonder that many Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Kevin Bryan and András Tilcsik

How Gamification Can Help Family Businesses

Conceptualization that is induced by the play (Kolb & Kolb. 2005). This study echoes the thesis of John Dewey (1916), one of the most influential thinkers in educational theory in the 20th century, Read More...

Category: Applied and Practice

Authors: Salvatore Tomaselli and Danilo Maurici