Tag: Leadership

Family Office Continuity in the Time of COVID19

As the Covid-19 virus spreads rapidly through the United States, most of the U.S. universities, businesses, government agencies, and school systems began a massive push to work from home or attend Read more

COVID-19: Understanding the Board’s Key Role During a Crisis

A board’s oversight and guidance, based on the expertise, experience and personal qualities of its members, has always helped drive business success and survival. But now, as the COVID-19 pandemic Read more

How to Care for Your Team During a Crisis

This advice from one of our best-read articles in 2020 still rings true for startups, small businesses and family ventures trying to hang on until things stabilize. Walt Disney nailed it when he said Read more

Worth Sharing: An Italian Entrepreneur Confronts the Crisis

Michael Cortelletti, owner and “Guardian Angel” of Food Democracy in Verona, Italy, has seen the affects of COVID-19 first hand, both as a business owner, and as a resident of Verona, Italy. As Read more

The number of businesses run by women continues to grow – by 59% between 1997 and 2013 – and women now run between a quarter and a third of all private businesses worldwide. Yet their businesses Read more

Too Much Love in the Family Can Hurt

EDITOR'S NOTE: This article was produced in partnership with the Journal of Family Business Strategy, a leading journal in the field of family business, as part of our mission to bring Read more

Surprising reasons owners exit family businesses

Only about a third of family businesses make it to a second generation beyond the founder. Conventional wisdom says that these firms falter because the owners didn’t have a succession plan, or the Read more

Understand Your Family Firm's Core Strengths and Weaknesses

It's been said that, “Once you have seen one family firm, you have seen just one family firm.” While it’s popular to say that every family firm is unique, as a researcher I take issue with the Read more

It is well-known that only a small fraction of startups achieve long-lasting success. They often fail not because their idea is poor but because of problems executing on their idea. One area that is Read more

Many venture capital firms, business accelerators and other investors see the strength of the founding team as an important predictor of whether their investment will pay off. No wonder that many Read more