A Lawyer’s Dozen: 13 Roles lawyers play for family enterprises
Choosing a lawyer for a family enterprise engagement is not a simple matter. In advising family enterprises, lawyers play at least 13 roles, involving different skills, experience, approaches and temperaments.
Enhance Your Work with Improv!
What is Improv and what does it have to do with our work as advisors to family enterprises?
How Do We Deal with Stubborn & Sphexish Family Members?
Every family is as unique as its members. However, when advising families in business, we sometimes find similar challenges and complexities to address.
Temporal Dimensions of Family Enterprise Research: A complex issue
In the March 2014 issue of Family Business Review, editors Trish Reay, Carlo Salvato and Pramodita Sharma offered an extensive introduction on the “Temporal Dimensions of Family Enterprise Research”.
Explaining Family Company Success and Survival
Families in business usually have a deep desire to see the family company prosper and survive into the next generation and to keep the family successful, united, and supportive of the family company.
Managing Complexity: Moving from succession planning to developing a family strategy
Over the last 10-15 years, we’ve seen a measurable shift in the complexity and speed of change in the world that we live in.
To Lie Down on the Couch: Thoughts on psychology, leadership and business schools
This week’s blog by Ricardo Mejía Cano of RMConsultores extends the research and commentary of INSEAD professor Manfred Kets de Vries on the topic of irrational behaviors by leaders.
As Time Goes By – FBR Summaries
This issue continues the executive summaries from FBR assistant editor Karen Vinton of the articles in the March FBR special issue on "Temporal Dimensions of Family Enterprise Research".
Family Advantage: Why all the doom and gloom
In this issue of The Practitioner, Lloyd Steier of the University of Alberta puts the data on family enterprise longevity in a new perspective. Important reading for everyone in the field!
An interdisciplinary advisory approach to the ownership of shared assets
...advantages of an interdisciplinary collaboration when helping families create an integrated approach to the ownership of shared assets.
Research Applied: FBR Summaries for The Practitioner
Managing family firms for success across time is one of the toughest challenges in business. Recently, it has been especially hard given the turbulent economic conditions that have existed globally.
Using an ESOP for Shareholder Liquidity: The Lawrence Welk Experience
ESOPS are frequently used by family companies to provide shareholder liquidity. This week’s article is a case study from Martin Staubus of The Beyster Institute at the Rady School of Management at the University of California San Diego.
Influencing Policy Makers: Research on Family Firms Educating Lawmakers
This blog by Caroline McLean, president of Family Enterprise – USA (FEUSA), describes the results of several years of FEUSA’s efforts to educate lawmakers. A survey for family enterprise owners to complete is linked.
When the Ball Gets Rolling, It’s Easier to Score a Goal
Yirhan Sim’s case study focuses on working with a client family to achieve consensus on a protocol for family governance through the use of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
Alternative to Private Equity: Partnering with the family office
In this issue, François M. de Visscher explores the concept of family enterprise partnering with family offices to defend their global market position or take advantage of growth opportunities.
Listen and Learn: 5 Podcast Interviews
This week’s edition includes five podcasts featuring the authors of provocative articles recently published in the Family Business Review.
Family Businesses and Community Foundations – A Natural Partnership
Community foundations are a worldwide phenomenon with more than 1400 around the globe.
Research Applied: FBR Summaries for The Practitioner December 2013
This year’s final installment of assistant FBR editor Karen Vinton’s executive summaries recaps three articles from the December 2013 issue of FBR, which examine managing the boundary between family and business.
Philanthropy – Advisors and their Clients: Are they on the same page?
This week’s invited blog extends a conversation on philanthropy and the role of family enterprise advisors that began at an educational event at the FFI global conference in San Diego in October.
The Expert is the Client
This article by Boris Matijias of Archipielago Empresa Familiar, Barcelona, outlines his method for working with the family enterprise client in an objective, clear and sincere manner.