Category: Commentary

EIX Partners With the Journal of Business Venturing By David Townsend and Catherine Buday on Thu Nov 10 2022 Entrepreneur & Innovation Exchange (EIX) is partnering with the Journal of Business Venturing (JBV) to bring its research-proven insights and practical advice to our audience of current and future Read more
Entrepreneurs Must Lead the Charge in Carbon Reduction By Dave Ketchen and Andrew Balthrop on Wed Nov 09 2022 Entrepreneurs, not federal government subsidies, are the key to societal improvements. Consider, for example, the newly passed Inflation Reduction Act. It aims to reduce carbon emissions by giving Read more
Should Family Businesses Have Employee Ownership Plans? By Corey Rosen on Tue Oct 18 2022 Like almost all family businesses, Commercial Casework in Hayward, California had to plan for when family owners would want to sell. The company, with about 100 employees, is one of the San Francisco Read more
Should Family Members Be the 'Face' of Your Company? By Jonas Ruzek, Ben Cooper and Kimberly Eddleston on Fri Oct 07 2022 Around the globe, advertisements for family businesses regularly include expressions like: “Our family serving yours for the last three generations” and, “Our name on the product guarantees its Read more
Four Reasons Why Your Next Hire Should Have a Side Hustle By Steve Blank and Nancy Forster-Holt on Tue Oct 04 2022 Like so much else today, the hiring process has radically changed. While it remains important for prospective hires, especially those fresh out of school, to demonstrate concrete evidence of job Read more
Classical Music and Blockchain Taught Me to Think Like an Artist By Christos A. Makridis on Fri Sep 30 2022 Most people would never think of putting classical music and blockchain in the same sentence. With my training in engineering and economics, I wouldn’t have either -- if it were not for my getting Read more
Don't Send Your Kids to Work Outside the Family Business Just Yet! By Joseph Astrachan, Isabel C Botero, Carol Wittmeyer and Claudia Binz Astrachan on Fri Sep 16 2022 Should family members work outside the family business before joining? Experts have long recommended that this is the best (and only!) way for the next generation to learn the skills and knowledge Read more
Family CEO Burnout: How to Prevent, Recognize and Deal With It By Lars B. Sonderegger, Claudia Binz Astrachan and Joseph Astrachan on Fri Sep 09 2022 Between COVID, supply chain issues, armed invasions, unstable markets, and the great resignation with millions of workers leaving the workforce (Parker & Menasce Horowitz, 2022) – or, more Read more
What All Family Businesses Can Learn From the Merck Family By Tom Rüsen, Claudia Binz Astrachan and Frank Stangenberg-Haverkamp on Tue Sep 06 2022 The Merck family business dates back to this apothecary, founded in 1668. The German Merck family has succeeded where many business families have failed: Keeping a group of 319 family members, Read more
Be Yourself: Advice For Women in Professional Services Businesses By Maria Considine King on Mon Aug 29 2022 A few years ago, at a major conference for financial planners, “Grace” and her husband were talking with some new acquaintances at dinner. One of them mentioned how admirable it was that Grace Read more