How engaged is your ownership group?
Nicolas Hollanders explains what it means for family business owners to be engaged with the project.
Strategic Alignment
Stewarding businesses into institutions
In light of the many crises that haunt the daily news cycle, there is one segment of the corporate landscape that seems to be weathering the storm better than most: family businesses.
How can I start the conversation about retirement with my parents?
Tools for the next generation to approach the retirement conversation tactfully with patience, strategy and smarts.
Philanthropy in Family Enterprises
This article presents a systematic review of the literature on the subject of family philanthropy.
What is the impact of political polarization on family businesses?
In principle, everyone in a family business, from shareholders and board members to executives and employees, has a right to their own politics.
How to set your family ownership group for success
Business families naturally invest in professionalizing their management group, often without realizing that their ownership group requires as much attention.
Financing Family Ventures: Challenges and opportunities
Families increasingly use entrepreneurship funds to finance and benefit from new ideas among members.
What is the point of family enterprise governance?
Business, ownership and family issues are intertwined in a way that is going to get very complicated.
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.
From Back Office to Executive Suite: The evolving role of the family office
Research has shown that the development of family companies can fall into two, sometimes three, stages.
