Tag: crisis management

Getting Your Family Business Ready for the 'New Normal'

Part one of two Eighteen months into the COVID-19 pandemic, we are seeing signs of a return to something resembling normality. Vaccination programs are now underway at a substantial pace, and Read more

Julie Steller got creative — and fast — once the pandemic hit | Credit: courtesy of Julie Steller EDITOR'S NOTE: This article is part of America's Entrepreneurs , a Next Avenue initiative made Read more

IyaSokoya Karade, entrepreneur/founder of Athletic Arts Academy This article is part of America's Entrepreneurs , a Next Avenue initiative made possible by the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation Read more

What Families in Conflict Can Learn from Baseball and Teachers

Either a private family business conflict ends up in the courts, or gets settled by alternative methods involving third-party neutrals – usually mediation and arbitration. These neutral parties can Read more

This article is part of America's Entrepreneurs , a Next Avenue initiative made possible by the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation and EIX . How many times have you heard people say, "I can't wait Read more

Listen to the Experts: How Family Firms are Surviving the Pandemic

It has been almost a year since the Covid pandemic rocked the world. While we have seen some family businesses forced to close their doors forever, others have successfully pivoted their business, Read more

Family Meetings Move Online

Family enterprises have been impacted in many ways by COVID-19, with many families placing their focus on the core business both in order to survive and to take advantage of this time to put forth Read more

The $325 billion second Covid relief bill -- the Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Nonprofits, and Venues Act -- was signed into law on December 27, 2020. The Small Business Administration Read more

Family Businesses Must Plan for the Unthinkable

It's been almost 14 months since the first Covid case was reported and, in that year, a great deal has happened. Very few business owners, particularly in North America, took the potential for a Read more

Five Things Family Businesses are Reckoning With Now

Family businesses everywhere are responding to Covid-19 in profound ways, balancing the need to preserve cherished family traditions and social capital against the mandate to control costs at a time Read more