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The Global Family Business Champions
Succession-Planning
Borrowed From Your Grandchildren
Family enterprises form the majority of businesses large and small in every country in the world. At the same time, few are able to...
Jun 23, 2021
Planning & Leadership Diversity Among Keys To Future Of Australian Firms
According to the latest research by KPMG Australia there is more to transition in a family business than deciding what date the leader...
Jun 23, 2021
Survey Shows Governance Is ‘Fit For Purpose’
Family businesses believe their governance arrangements are entirely or broadly fit for purpose, according to 69% of respondents to a new...
Jan 23, 2021
Families And Business: Unwilling Inheritors
The transition from one generation to the next is a delicate time for Family Businesses. Studies from across the world have highlighted...
Nov 23, 2020
Getting Mum & Dad To Talk About Succession Planning
Have you tried to raise the subject of succession planning with your parents? How have they reacted? I am assuming from the fact you are...
Sep 30, 2020
Family Businesses Shouldn’t Hunt for Superstar CEO’s
It’s a dilemma that faces family businesses all too frequently. We saw it recently when we worked with a $4 billion global manufacturing...
Aug 24, 2020
Steering A Path Through An Unplanned Transition
Two years after her parents passed away, 63-year- old Alice Tazzi* found herself in a frustrating situation. As with several other recent...
Aug 13, 2020
Succession – The Elephant In The Room!
Succession planning is always on the family business agenda. However, it can be one of the hardest conversations to have because it...
Jul 23, 2020
Family Business Longevity In Three Steps
Morten Bennedsen, INSEAD Professor of Economics and Political Science shares some lessons from the UK’s oldest privately owned bank,...
Jul 23, 2020
The Succession Pipeline
Founding and growing a business is one thing, but passing the baton is just as important. In private and family enterprises, it’s...
Jul 23, 2020
Family Business Succession & Governance
Family business practitioners see the investigation of differentness family to family and detail to detail as the heart of today’s...
Jul 7, 2020
Family Business Succession & Governance
Family business practitioners see the investigation of differentness family to family and detail to detail as the heart of today’s...
Jul 7, 2020
Preparing Your Family Business For Sale
There comes a time when most families seek to sell their business, whether it be five years after its creation or two hundred years. The...
Jul 2, 2020
Senior Moments
Family businesses benefit by leveraging knowledgeable senior family leaders with innovative members of the next generation. Research...
Jun 23, 2020
Rising To The Challenge Of Succession
Finding a family successor is one of the greatest challenges for family firms but when done correctly, it will deliver value for the...
Jun 23, 2020
Five Challenges That Could Derail Succession
Chinese family firms are a force for change in China, bringing a renewed interest in family entrepreneurship to the forefront....
Jun 23, 2020
Protecting Chinese Firms From Generational Friction
A good insight into some of the challenges facing family firms and the family dynamics that promote smooth transfer to the next...
Jun 23, 2020
Owners Need To Step Back
In this article, Morten Bennedsen of INSEAD takes a look at family business longevity, some of the challenges and the need for owners to...
Jun 10, 2020
When Succession Skips A Generation
Hiring non-family executives helps ensure longevity, but it requires strategic finesse. In this article, Morten Bennedsen from INSEAD...
Jun 2, 2020
Succession: The Final Act Of Greatness
The ability to carry on a successful intergenerational transfer of ownership and leadership (succession) is one of the most important...
Jun 2, 2020
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