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Tradition and adaptation in Chinese family enterprises: Facing the challenge of continuity
There are three specific critical challenges that Chinese family enterprises will have to meet and resolve.
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What world leaders can learn from family business leaders
Pundits in Washington should be careful not to paint the entire world of family enterprise with the same orange brush.
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Resilience in Family Enterprises
Studying the response of family enterprise systems to chronic market dysfunction and elevated risk can provide useful insights into organizational resilience.
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Demographics and Family Governance: The Vanishing Middle
Many family businesses have a problem with recruitment into governance roles, and the family labor pool is a critical issue.
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The dilemma of the mature family council
Over the past three decades, many business families have formed a Council. The oldest Councils have started asking “What do we do now?”
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The “Forgotten” Generation of Family Businesses
What have we learned about efficient (and less anxiety-raising) ways to apply the family’s human capital over time?
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Governing the Family Enterprise
A very small part of the academic research on governance has taken into account family ownership and the special nature of family firm governance.
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The tests of a prince
Future leaders, particularly in family businesses, must jump through four kinds of hoops to earn the respect—and then the support—of stakeholders.
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Mentoring the next generation
The next generation of mentors – parents, uncles, aunts, grandparents, senior business leaders and advisors – play an important role in guiding the next generation of family members.
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The making of a banking star
As head of her family’s bank in Taos, New Mexico, Rebeca Romero “makes things happen” in the Hispanic community.
