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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. -
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. -
Leadership Lessons from Great Family Businesses
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAccording to the Family Business Institute, only 30% of family businesses last into the second generation, 12% remain viable into the third, and 3% operate... -
Keeping It Professional When You Work in a Family Business
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Family Businesses Have a Talent-Acquisition Advantage
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Expand the Menu? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
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... -
The Founder of Qualtrics on Reinventing an Already Successful Business
Strategy & Execution Magazine Article"One of the hardest disciplines in business and in life is tearing down what you've built to build something better," writes the founder and former CEO... -
The Ex-CEO Contemplates a Coup (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleA family business in Indonesia is hit hard by the economic downturn, and some family members want the former CEO--the founder's son--to retain the reins.... -
Is Your Family Office Built for the Future?
Family businesses Digital ArticleFive critical decisions to set it up for long-term success. -
The CEO of Canada Goose on Creating a Homegrown Luxury Brand
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAfter working at his family's coat manufacturing company for a few years, the author realized that high-end coats made in Canada could become a luxury... -
Lessons from Large Family Firms About Choosing a CEO
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What Role Should a Company Play in a National Crisis? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
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... -
What You Can Learn from Family Business
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThough the term "family business" may call to mind visions of local mom-and-pop firms, family- controlled companies play a huge role on the global stage.... -
Why Fights Erupt in Family Businesses
Family businesses Digital ArticleLack of boundaries and formal structure create potential for nasty (and lasting) disagreements. -
Governing the Family-Owned Enterprise: An Interview with Finland's Krister Ahlstrom
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe CEO of one of Europe's pre-eminent family-owned companies discusses how he lead the Ahlstrom Corp. as well as his own family through a major transformation.... -
Building Your Own Network When You're Part of a Family Business
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThe family rolodex doesn't necessarily pass from one generation to the next. -
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.... -
Your Family Business Needs a Deep Bench
Corporate governance Digital ArticleIt’ll help your organization grow, adapt, and build resilience. -
What Role Should a Family Business Play in Its Community?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleA conversation to have with your family and other stakeholders. -
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.
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Diversifying P&G's Supplier Base (A)
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details In February 2003, P&G hosted two meetings-one with its largest woman- and minority-owned suppliers and one with its largest non-minority-owned suppliers.... -
Marfrig's Quest for Sustainable Beef
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Marfrig, one of the world's leading meatpackers, strived to comply with its commitment to have a deforestation-free value chain in Brazil by 2030. The... -
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... -
Bhiwar Enterprises
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details A nephew in an Indian family business has prepared a consulting report advocating changes in organizational structure and practices. His North American... -
FJ Management Inc.
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In late 2015, Crystal Call Maggelet, president and CEO of FJ Management, is working with her investment committee to help set the company's strategic... -
Bob Ross Auto Group
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This case details the challenges Jenell Ross faced at Bob Ross Auto Group, the car dealership in Dayton, Ohio, started by her father, Bob Ross. The case... -
Dabur India: Growing Professional Management from Family Roots
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The case opens in December of 2018, with Sunil Duggal, the CEO of Dabur India (a multinational consumer goods conglomerate with a focus in Ayurvedic products)... -
Little Short Stop: Creating Strategy for a Shifting Industry
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In early 2019, the general manager of Little Short Stop Stores, a chain of local, family-owned convenience stores in southwestern Ontario, Canada, was... -
Business Family Dynamics
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The Sustainability Sweet Spot at Jiu Zhen Nan Taiwan Pastry
Management Case Study8.95View 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... -
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... -
Kev McDonald Had Some Land...
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An Heir with No Spare: The Deitch Family Office
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Joe and Matt Deitch, father and son, knew it was time to start their own family office. Matthew had recently joined his father at the family's three enterprises,... -
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... -
Steady Leadership in Choppy Seas: An Asian Maritime Perspective
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Set in March 2015, the case begins when the Baltic Dry Index (BDI), an economic indicator of the average price to ship raw materials, hits an all-time... -
Flying J (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details This case supplements the "Flying J (A)" case. -
Kiwi Transportation Company
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The transition of a company from father to son can often lead to new strategic directions for a company. New leaders have to face issues carried over... -
Family Governance at the Cousin Consortium Stage, Video
Strategy & Execution Tool25.00View Details Explains the governance system for the Eddy family, who own the Port Blakely Companies. Provides the viewer with an inside look at the running of the... -
Chevalier Group: Using a Private Equity "Style" Strategy to Maximize a Listed Company's Value
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details The Chevalier case demonstrates how a family-controlled and publicly listed group can make use of a listed company's idle assets and turn them into a... -
Demystifying the Family Enterprise
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details 90% of the GDP in the world is created through family-owned businesses. Family businesses are frequently thought to be exclusively mom-and-pop, small...
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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. -
Diversifying P&G's Supplier Base (A)
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details In February 2003, P&G hosted two meetings-one with its largest woman- and minority-owned suppliers and one with its largest non-minority-owned suppliers.... -
Marfrig's Quest for Sustainable Beef
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Marfrig, one of the world's leading meatpackers, strived to comply with its commitment to have a deforestation-free value chain in Brazil by 2030. The... -
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... -
Bhiwar Enterprises
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details A nephew in an Indian family business has prepared a consulting report advocating changes in organizational structure and practices. His North American... -
FJ Management Inc.
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In late 2015, Crystal Call Maggelet, president and CEO of FJ Management, is working with her investment committee to help set the company's strategic... -
Bob Ross Auto Group
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This case details the challenges Jenell Ross faced at Bob Ross Auto Group, the car dealership in Dayton, Ohio, started by her father, Bob Ross. The case... -
Dabur India: Growing Professional Management from Family Roots
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The case opens in December of 2018, with Sunil Duggal, the CEO of Dabur India (a multinational consumer goods conglomerate with a focus in Ayurvedic products)... -
Little Short Stop: Creating Strategy for a Shifting Industry
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In early 2019, the general manager of Little Short Stop Stores, a chain of local, family-owned convenience stores in southwestern Ontario, Canada, was... -
Business Family Dynamics
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Reprinted from John Davis.