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Family Business - Succession

Succession is a challenge for family businesses the world over and covers both the areas of management and ownership as well as the transition from one generation to the next which needs careful planning and consideration to minimise the potential affects.

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Protecting Chinese Firms From Generational Friction

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...

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Owners Need To Step Back

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...

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When Succession Skips A Generation

When Succession Skips A Generation

Hiring non-family executives helps ensure longevity, but it requires strategic finesse. In this article, Morten Bennedsen from INSEAD...

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Succession: The Final Act Of Greatness

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...

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One Family Business, Two Succession Challenges

One Family Business, Two Succession Challenges

Plan to succeed by considering both areas of succession as early as possible. Statistics have for many years shown that a depressingly...

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The Challenge Of Shareholder Liquidity

The Challenge Of Shareholder Liquidity

There are several ways to provide liquidity to shareholders of privately held family businesses without giving up control of the family...

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Successful Succession Is By No Means An Impossibility

Successful Succession Is By No Means An Impossibility

Making a success of succession is not, by any means, impossible as Marc Farror explains. Like all businesses, family ones have to deal...

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Perpetuating The Family Business

Perpetuating The Family Business

The challenge is to do all that’s required to pass the company on to generation two… A most challenging aspect of entrepreneurship has...

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Who Gets Dad's Office?

Who Gets Dad's Office?

When it comes to family business succession planning, one thing is certain: Most family business leaders don’t do it, they don’t do it...

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Generational Transitions In Family Businesses

Generational Transitions In Family Businesses

Preparing to pass the business to the next generation is the toughest challenge for a family business. Roberta Fenech shares her...

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The Benefits Of Outside Experience

The Benefits Of Outside Experience

There are plenty of benefits of having the next generation work outside of the family business for part of their career progression....

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Breaking The Cycle Of Family Business Failures

Breaking The Cycle Of Family Business Failures

What does it take to build a successful multigenerational family business? Many of the world’s most enduring companies are family...

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