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The Founders of Bitty & Beau’s Coffee on Building a Business Around Employees with Disabilities
Diversity and inclusion Magazine ArticleA thriving business demonstrates how dedicated and enthusiastic employees with disabilities can be. -
Does Your Family Business Encourage Dissent?
Organizational Development Digital ArticleCompanies that have diversity of thought are higher performing - and more resilient. -
How Family Businesses Can Compete for Talent
Organizational Development Digital ArticleThe global workforce is transforming. Family firms are uniquely positioned to beat out the competition. -
Transforming a Family Business in Turbulent Times
Organizational Development Digital ArticleSurviving, let alone succeeding, requires constant adaptation. -
Wrestling with Legacy in a Family Business
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleStrong traditions can provide a sense of identity, inspiration, and direction - but they can also hold your company back. -
Do Most Family Businesses Really Fail by the Third Generation?
Organizational Development Digital ArticleDebunking the oft-cited "three generation" myth. -
3 Hurdles that Trip Up Younger Generations in a Family Business
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleGrowing up in your family's shadow can leave you with big shoes to fill. -
Is the Next Generation of Your Family Business Entrepreneurial Enough?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTraditions don't have to be constricting. -
When the Boss Won't Budge (Commentary on HBR Case Study)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAllerGen, a young biotechnology firm, is heading for trouble, possibly even bankruptcy. The company's one product--a vaccine for people allergic to cats--may... -
Keeping It Professional When You Work in a Family Business
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Moving a Family Business Beyond the Founder's Vision
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleHow the next generation can embrace the future - while respecting the past. -
Is Your Family Office Built for the Future?
Organizational Development Digital ArticleFive critical decisions to set it up for long-term success. -
Study: Customers Really Do Trust Family Businesses More
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleYour marketing should capitalize on that. -
What Role Should a Company Play in a National Crisis? (HBR Case Study)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAfter a tsunami hits his island nation, Sahan Kumara believes that his family's business--one of the largest conglomerates in the region--should help... -
Lessons from Large Family Firms About Choosing a CEO
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When Should You Fire Your Child from the Family Business?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleFour questions to ask before you make a painful decision. -
How Parents Can Promote Resilience in the Family Business
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleFocus on providing learning experiences for the next generation - and room for them to make mistakes. -
Why Fights Erupt in Family Businesses
Family businesses Digital ArticleLack of boundaries and formal structure create potential for nasty (and lasting) disagreements. -
The Chair of Illycaffè on Creating Virtuous Agricultural Ecosystems
Managing employees Magazine ArticleAdvancing the sustainability goals of the author’s grandfather, his company’s founder -
Fast, Global, and Entrepreneurial: Supply Chain Management, Hong Kong Style: An Interview with Victor Fung
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleIn this interview, Li & Fung Chairman Victor Fung explains both the philosophy behind supply-chain management and the specific practices that Li & Fung...
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Merck, Darmstadt: Sustaining Legacy Beyond 350 Years
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case is about the business, governance and leadership transformation of Merck - a 13th generation, family-owned, German multinational group operating... -
India's Mewar Dynasty: Upholding 76 Generations of Service and Custodianship
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details There are not many families in the world that can claim continuity of existence for over 76 generations in either business or otherwise. Families that... -
Scale and Scope at Drake Real Estate Partners
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Realizing in early 2021 that their pending real estate investment fund would likely be oversubscribed, Drake Real Estate Partners co-founders Nicolás... -
Rawayeti Foods: Performance Management in a Family-Owned Business
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In 2017, the chief executive officer of Rawayeti Foods, a Pakistani company dedicated to ensuring the purity and quality of its spices and pulses, was... -
Alessi: Evolution of an Italian Design Factory (A)
Sales & Marketing Case Study15.05View Details Alessio Alessi, head of distribution at family-run Alessi S.p.A., is facing price and brand confusion among customers and is considering reorganizing... -
Wooden Bakery: Should It Enter the U.S. Market?
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details A leading family-owned Lebanese bakery-convenience store chain, Wooden Bakery, was in the process of deciding the company's next options for growth in... -
Pennycook Power Boats: Considering an Offer to Sell the Firm (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In early 2016, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Pennycook Power Boats was approached by the CEO of a competitor, who was interested in purchasing... -
Herschend Enterprises: Unifying and Communicating the Voice of Ownership
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details This case features a family business working to better integrate the voice of the whole family into corporate governance. In November 2019, the Herschend... -
Medicine Hat Meat Traders: Beefing Up a Family Business
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In March 2019, entrepreneur Greg Pahl was contemplating the next steps for Medicine Hat Meat Traders; the past year was the company's best in terms of... -
Sanquan Food: Closed-loop Management of a Family Business Undergoing Strategic Transformation (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Case (B) discusses the implementation of closed-loop management at a family business that underwent a strategic transformation, and explores mechanisms... -
Chrysler and BMW: Tritec Engine Joint Venture
Technology & Operations Case Study6.95View Details A gifted project leader lacks significant new product development experience. The case highlights the issues and procedures related to defining the project... -
Kohler Co. (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Buck Auto Care Products: Selling a Private Company
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The chief financial officer (CFO) of Buck Auto Care Products (Buck's), a Toronto-based manufacturer and distributor of premium car care products, had... -
Mistry Architects (C)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details This case is a follow-up of "Mistry Architects: Innovating for Sustainability" (A) (Case 609-044) and (B) (Case 609-086). In Case (A) Sharukh and Renu... -
Vipp A/S
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Rapidly growing Vipp sells highly differentiated (and expensive) "designer" versions of a product that most buyers think about in purely functional terms:... -
Liu Bai: A Chinese Successor's Dilemma
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Succession patterns in Asia are heavily influenced by Confucian values and traditions. Liu Bai's father's authoritarian style of management was typical... -
Commercial Fixtures, Inc.
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Two equal partners arrange a sealed bid auction to decide which one buys out the other's interest in a lighting fixture company started by their fathers.... -
Lee Kum Kee: Female Succession in Family Business
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Elizabeth Mok was the second born and the only daughter in the fourth generation of the Lee family. She was also the only one of five siblings who did... -
Scott Family Enterprises: Building the Path to Effective Governance
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details As founders of First Interstate BancSystem, which held $8.6 billion in assets and had recently become a public company, and Padlock Ranch, which had over... -
All Options on the Table: The Haber Family
Management Case Study8.95View Details Frida Jassan Haber, second-generation Chief Financial Officer of Haber Holdings, deliberated over the right family office solution for their family's...
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The Founders of Bitty & Beau’s Coffee on Building a Business Around Employees with Disabilities
Diversity and inclusion Magazine ArticleA thriving business demonstrates how dedicated and enthusiastic employees with disabilities can be. -
Does Your Family Business Encourage Dissent?
Organizational Development Digital ArticleCompanies that have diversity of thought are higher performing - and more resilient. -
How Family Businesses Can Compete for Talent
Organizational Development Digital ArticleThe global workforce is transforming. Family firms are uniquely positioned to beat out the competition. -
Transforming a Family Business in Turbulent Times
Organizational Development Digital ArticleSurviving, let alone succeeding, requires constant adaptation. -
Merck, Darmstadt: Sustaining Legacy Beyond 350 Years
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case is about the business, governance and leadership transformation of Merck - a 13th generation, family-owned, German multinational group operating... -
Merck, Darmstadt: Sustaining Legacy Beyond 350 Years, Teaching Note
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTeaching note for case ISB123. -
Wrestling with Legacy in a Family Business
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleStrong traditions can provide a sense of identity, inspiration, and direction - but they can also hold your company back. -
P.N. Gadgil Jewellers: Managing a Family Brand, Teaching Note
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTeaching note to case W20052 -
India's Mewar Dynasty: Upholding 76 Generations of Service and Custodianship
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details There are not many families in the world that can claim continuity of existence for over 76 generations in either business or otherwise. Families that... -
Scale and Scope at Drake Real Estate Partners
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Realizing in early 2021 that their pending real estate investment fund would likely be oversubscribed, Drake Real Estate Partners co-founders Nicolás...