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New Ideas in Family Firms: 2023 Academic-Practitioner Conference Recap
The New Ideas in Family Firms Conference is an invitation-only thought leadership platform that was launched in 2018 to bring together a small group of the world’s leading academic researchers and practitioners to discuss the latest ideas in family enterprise research and advisory work.
Leadership and Strategy, Ownership, Research Findings, Strategy
Can you understand family-owned business without the emotions?
How do emotions impact decision-making in your family enterprise? Fabian Bernhard, Associate Professor of Management, EDHEC Business School, explains.
Practitioner Perspectives, Research Findings
2022 Conference Recap: Academic Presentation with Professor Rita McGrath
CBS Professor Rita McGrath shared her expertise on innovation in times of uncertainty. Her latest book, Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen, explores how to harness disruptive influences early for a strategic advantage.
Family, Family Voices, Research Findings
2022 Conference Recap: Family Enterprise in an Interconnected World
Panelists discussed new challenges, from “cancel culture” to personal privacy, which businesses, and their people, must navigate in an inescapably interconnected world.
Research Findings
Structural Equality at the Top of the Corporation: Mandated Quotas for Women Directors
This article by CBS Professor Bruce Kogut and Jordi Colomer proposes a concept of structural equality as a compromise between competing policy preferences of equality and individual liberty to address a stunning property of the governance of corporations, namely, the paucity of female directors on corporate boards.Read the article
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Structural Equality at the Top of the Corporation: Mandated Quotas for Women Directors
This article by CBS Professor Bruce Kogut and Jordi Colomer proposes a concept of structural equality as a compromise between competing policy preferences of equality and individual liberty to address a stunning property of the governance of corporations, namely, the paucity of female directors on corporate boards.Read the article
Research Findings
Optimal Team Composition: Diversity to Foster Implicit Team Incentives
In this article by CBS Professor Jonathan Glover and E. Kim, the authors study optimal team design. Read the article
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Translating Your Strategy Into a Compelling Leadership Message
For a strategy to be supported and acted upon, it has to live in the hearts and minds of employees.
Research Findings
Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress
It has long been recognized that an improved standard of living results from advances in technology, not from the accumulation of capital. It has also become clear that what truly separates developed from less-developed countries is not just a gap in resources or output but a gap in knowledge.
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Does financial reporting misconduct pay off even when discovered?
Experts and popular beliefs suggest that it pays to engage in financial misconduct due to lax enforcement and punishment after 2003.
Governance, Leadership, Practitioner Perspectives, Research Findings
Life After an Exit: How Entrepreneurs Transition to the Next Stage
Entrepreneurs are different from other people. Their talent lies in imagining a new solution or a fresh approach that gives the world something it may not have even realized it needed. Building a successful enterprise from start-up to sustained profitability demands total immersion.
Family, Leadership, Ownership, Research Findings
Dynastic Control Without Ownership: Evidence from Post-War Japan
Dynastic-controlled firms are led by founding-family CEOs while the family owns an insignificant share of equity (defined as less than 5%).
Family, Governance, Ownership, Research Findings
Family Firms Do Last!
The claim that most family businesses fail in the third generation is refuted in this study by Thomas Zellwegger and colleagues.
Leadership, Ownership, Practitioner Perspectives, Research Findings
Sustainable Growth Drivers for Family Enterprises
In collaboration with the Columbia Global Center Nairobi, Kenya, Patricia M. Angus, Adjunct Professor and Managing Director, Global Family Enterprise Program, joined a panel of experts to explore how family businesses in Africa are evolving as sustainable growth drivers.