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Expand the Menu? (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
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How to Build Upon the Legacy of Your Family Business - and Make It Your Own
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What Happens When a Company (Like Patagonia) Transfers Ownership to a Nonprofit?
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Keeping It Professional When You Work in a Family Business
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A Crisis Playbook for Family Businesses
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Transferring Power in The Family Business
Change management Magazine ArticleOne of the most agonizing experiences that any business faces is the moving from one generation of top management to the next. The problem is often most acute in family businesses, where the original entrepreneur hangs on as he watches others try to help manage or take over his business, while at the same time, […] -
Surviving in a Family Business When You're Not Part of the Family
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Family Businesses Need One Person to Conquer and Another to Rule
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When Should You Fire Your Child from the Family Business?
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How Family Businesses Can Attract Non-Family Talent
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Why Fights Erupt in Family Businesses
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Satyam and the Indian Family Business
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Signs You’re Losing Control of Your Family Business
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When and How Family Businesses Should Use Shareholder Agreements
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Conflicts That Plague Family Businesses
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleThe fundamental psychological conflict that plagues family businesses is rivalry, compounded by feelings of guilt. Company founders feel rivalry when... -
Does Your Family Business Encourage Dissent?
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What Makes a Family Business Last?
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Why Family Businesses Need to Find the Right Level of Conflict
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The Chair of Illycaffe on Creating Virtuous Agricultural Ecosystems
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIn the 1990s most coffee beans were still commodity products, cheaply priced, undifferentiated by quality, often blended, and sold through an exchange....
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Dakota Industrial Co. Ltd: Sustainable Garment Manufacturing in a Fast-Fashion World
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details This case explains how Dakota, a medium-sized garment maker headquartered in Hong Kong, built its sustainability program while serving a US$3 trillion... -
Mariwala's Family Entrepreneurship Challenges (B)
Management Case Study5.00View Details This case discusses the dilemma faced by Harsh Mariwala, the business leader who relinquished the CEO position of Marico Limited, his family-owned fast-moving... -
The Sustainability Sweet Spot at Jiu Zhen Nan Taiwan Pastry
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Fisk Alloy Wire and Percon
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Fisk Alloy Wire was a privately-owned specialty wire mill with facilities in Hawthorne, NJ and Oriskany, NY. The business focused on the development and... -
Cataumet Boats, Inc.
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Jaime Giancola, an MBA student, has recently completed an operations management course in which aggregate production planning (APP) was one of the topics.... -
Cross Country Group: A Piece of the Rock (B)
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HOMI Foundation: Expanding a Non-profit Family Hospital for Children
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Ramcides: Growing Pains for a Family-Run Business in an Emerging Market
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Ho Tak Kee Book Co. Ltd. - A Third Generation at a Crossroads (A)
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Ho Tak Kee was originally a professional publisher and printer that started in the 1950s in Hong Kong. Having faced static performance for decades, the... -
Jebsen & Jessen Family Enterprise: A Hong From the Cold
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Assessing and Enhancing Individual Power in the Family Business System
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J. Perez Foods (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Examines the tensions that occur in family shareholder groups and how to prepare for them and manage them. -
Bhiwar Enterprises
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details A nephew in an Indian family business has prepared a consulting report advocating changes in organizational structure and practices. His North American... -
Junkkari Oy: Growing the Wood-Chipper Business
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The MSK Group Oy was a third-generation family-owned business located in Ylihärmä, Finland. One of its subsidiaries, Junkkari Oy (Junkkari), manufactured... -
Balaji Wafers: Taking the Pepsi Challenge
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The family-run Balaji Wafers Pvt. Ltd. (Balaji Wafers), a savoury snack manufacturer, had adopted a phased strategy in taking on the likes of global multinational... -
Qualtrics: Bootstrapping Growth
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Magna International, Inc. (A)
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Schroder Family (A): Personal Wealth, Family, and Estates
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TECO: Too Old to Rule or Too Young to Succeed
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Dakota Industrial Co. Ltd: Sustainable Garment Manufacturing in a Fast-Fashion World
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details This case explains how Dakota, a medium-sized garment maker headquartered in Hong Kong, built its sustainability program while serving a US$3 trillion... -
Expand the Menu? (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleYolk-ay, a United Arab Emirates restaurant chain specializing in traditional Indian egg dishes, recently opened its eighth location in 10 years--but turnover... -
Dealing with the Unique Work-Life Challenges of Family Businesses
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleSetting boundaries is especially tricky. -
Mariwala's Family Entrepreneurship Challenges (B)
Management Case Study5.00View Details This case discusses the dilemma faced by Harsh Mariwala, the business leader who relinquished the CEO position of Marico Limited, his family-owned fast-moving... -
The Sustainability Sweet Spot at Jiu Zhen Nan Taiwan Pastry
Management Case Study11.95View Details Set in 2022, the case follows the sustainability journey of Jiu Zhen Nan, a 133-year-old Taiwanese pastry brand headquartered in Kaohsiung, the southern... -
How to Build Upon the Legacy of Your Family Business - and Make It Your Own
Organizational Development Digital ArticleReframe your company's past in a way that creates advantages for the present. -
Fisk Alloy Wire and Percon
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Fisk Alloy Wire was a privately-owned specialty wire mill with facilities in Hawthorne, NJ and Oriskany, NY. The business focused on the development and... -
Cataumet Boats, Inc.
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Jaime Giancola, an MBA student, has recently completed an operations management course in which aggregate production planning (APP) was one of the topics.... -
Cross Country Group: A Piece of the Rock (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
What Happens When a Company (Like Patagonia) Transfers Ownership to a Nonprofit?
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleThis form of ownership may be new in the U.S., but it's relatively common in Europe.