Family Business Review Podcast Interviews with Distinguished Researchers
This week’s Practitioner looks at four recent podcast interviews conducted by Family Business Review assistant editor Karen Vinton. She talks with leading thinkers in the field about the articles they have published in FBR this year.
Family Business Governance: A never ending challenge and a new area for research?
Family Business Governance: A never ending challenge and a new area for research? Prof. Wolf Nietzer, MBA, LL.M.
Research Applied: FBR Summaries for The Practitioner June 2013
Karen Vinton’s Executive Summaries recap two articles from the June 2013 issue of FBR. In Is Nepotism Good or Bad? Types of Nepotism and Implications for Knowledge Management the authors look at two categories of nepotism, reciprocal and entitlement.
US Public Policy and Family Enterprise: An Interview with CEO Jeff Ahola
Read our interview with Jeff Ahola, CEO of The Ahola Corporation, a family-owned, national payroll and workforce management company that provides tools and resources for family enterprises.
Research and Practice: FBR Special Issue
The Practitioner is pleased to bring you the first in a series of preview articles from the FBR September 2013 Special Issue on Advising Family Enterprise, co-edited by Trish Reay, University of Alberta, and W. Gibb Dyer, Brigham Young University.
Financial Time’s Global MBA Rank 2013
This week’s blog from the Practitioner features five of the Financial Time’s Global MBA Rank 2013. Please enjoy the latest takes on some familiar family enterprise topics from thought leaders around the world!
The Benefits of Rest, Reprieve, Relaxation, and Rejuvenation
Two types of stress punctuate personal experience. Eustress (pleasant or curative stress) is inspirational and motivational.
Universities: A resource for you and your clients
According to today’s blogger Greg McCann, students who are members of family enterprises, whether or not they have worked or will work in the business, should have at least a basic grounding in how family firms operate.
How Coaching and Consulting Work Together to Complete the Puzzle of Sustainable Change, an article by Carmen Lence
In any family enterprise, the founders or senior members may doubt their decisions or the family may question their intentions.
Research Applied: FBR Summaries for The Practitioner March 2013
Karen Vinton’s Executive Summaries recap two articles from the March 2013 issue of FBR. In Should My Spouse Be My Partner?
Byte Up! Guest Blog from Boris Matijas
In this issue The Practitioner is pleased to have a blog by FFI member and member of the Practitioner Editorial Board, Boris Matijas.
King Lear’s Fool: The role of advisors
In his article, King Lear’s Fool—The role of advisors, Dean Fowler encourages collaboration among professionals, but also argues for the individual consultant to gain mastery in an area other than his or her field of origin.
Research Applied: FBR Summaries for The Practitioner
These summaries of each article, as well as the articles themselves, serve as tip sheets for the practitioner facing challenges in an engagement. Please don’t forget to share these summaries with friends and colleagues.
No Stone Unturned
“A quiet bias seems to exist among many family business consultants and advisors that keeping the business together, regardless of individual costs, is beneficial and should always be a primary goal".
Creating Interdisciplinary Teams
Family business advisors often discuss “how to create an interdisciplinary team?” As with many questions, the answer sometimes becomes clearer when the right question is asked.
Research Applied: FBR Summaries for The Practitioner
The Practitioner brings you Executive Summaries from FBR Assistant Editor Karen Vinton, covering a range of topics that are true north on a practitioner’s professional compass.
Addiction in the Family Business: An interview with Christopher Kennedy Lawford
Last week, The Practitioner caught up with Chris on his US book tour. James Olan Hutcheson, an FFI Fellow and advocate on this issue, was able to sit down with Chris.
Love may not keep us together: Working collaboratively to advise family firms.
In my work as a family business advisor, I have had numerous opportunities to collaborate with a registered clinical counsellor who specializes in family therapy.
Around the World in Four Recaps
n this year’s final installment of Karen Vinton’s Executive Summaries, The Practitioner recaps four stellar research articles, with a true overall international bent.
Case Study: Succession Planning in the Palliative Care Unit
Succession Planning in the Palliative Care Unit John Geddes Succession planning is often delayed or avoided due a number of reasons. And while the details may differ client to client, failure in this area is a phenomenon common to many family enterprises. The following story details a difficult and complicated situation for one of my clients. Bill, aged 68, had an 80% majority ownership in a third-generation glass cutting and installation business in the Mid-West US, which I’ll call “OM Glaziers”--“OM” for short. The company cut and installed glass shower stalls for condo