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When the Family Leaves the Business, Can Their Values Remain? By Roy Suddaby, Wilson Ng, Natalia Vershinina, Gideon Markman and Matthew Cadbury on Sat Jan 13 2024 Researchers explored how the Cadbury family’s Quaker values, which prioritized honesty and fairness, have endured even after the confectioner was sold to Kraft. EDITOR'S NOTE: This article was Read more
Growing Pains: Helping a Family Office to Evolve By Torsten Pieper and Claudia Binz Astrachan on Wed Oct 18 2023 This case study invites students to identify the underlying issues, stakes, and potential pathways forward for a troubled family office. Students also explore problems surrounding the evolution of Read more
Pitching and Evaluating a Venture: The Case of TeamGenius By Jay Ebben and Alec Johnson on Thu Apr 06 2023 How can entrepreneurs build a case for external investment, and how do investors evaluate the ventures pitched to them? This case offers some answers to these questions. It’s likely to be of Read more
How a Distillery Founder and His Investor Went Off the Rails By Theodore L. Waldron, Jeffery S. McMullen, Oleg Petrenko, Lori Tribble Trudell, Olivia Aronson and James C Wetherbe on Fri Jan 27 2023 In 2013, Chip Tate was on the verge of taking Balcones Distilling to the next level. Since 2008, he had been building his Waco, Texas-based craft whiskey business literally with his own hands, Read more
Summer Program in Japan Gets Future Entrepreneurs to a ‘Better Starting Line’ By Sushi Suzuki on Mon Aug 24 2020 Every summer in the sweltering heat of Japanese summer, dozens of aspiring entrepreneurs, mostly students, arrive in Kyoto to participate in Japan's most intense and international summer Read more
Case Studies, Movies, TV Shows and Other Family Business Resources By Alfredo De Massis and Josip Kotlar on Fri Mar 15 2019 The demand for family business education is soaring around the globe, and several higher education institutions are introducing new courses and programs that focus on this dominant type of business Read more
How Can the Family Business Cope When a Key Non-family Exec Leaves? By Kimberly Eddleston and Madison Mailey on Sun Nov 18 2018 NOTE TO TEACHERS: The downloadable supporting document (above) includes material to guide classroom discussion. This case is based on a real family business, although the specifics have been changed Read more
How Lowell Wakefield Made Crab King By Sharon Alvarez on Tue Oct 11 2016 While king crab fishing is among the most dangerous and lucrative activities in the world, it is only recent technology that makes it possible to extract this bounty from the sea, from global Read more
When Kickstarter Campaigns Don’t Deliver: A Case Study of Phenom Fabrics By Eden Blair and Tanya Marcum on Tue Apr 12 2016 Introduction In October of 2014, Frances Courtepointe 1 started a Kickstarter campaign for her venture Phenom Fabrics 1 . She promised hand dyed fabric "fat-quarter" cuts - a 18” x 22” piece of Read more