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  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

End Game

exit. Yvon drives a Toyota Corolla. No one wanted a Porsche,” Conn says. The idea of a publicly traded benefit corporation fell short, too: “Once you’re public, nothing can lock in your mission forever. And the family felt there could be... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade
  • Web

Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Saudi Arabia; Economic Diversification Tarun Khanna January 2025 J 3.0 Innovating at Scale Rebecca Karp Spring 2025 Q3 1.5 Leading a Family Business (LFB) Josh Baron Spring 2025 Q4 1.5 Mastering Consulting and Advisory Skills (also listed... View Details
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

design of windows into and out of the organization’s operations—to help customers understand the value being added and to allow employees to see the impact of their work. How to Not Bankrupt Your Family Professor Lauren H. Cohen + More... View Details
  • July 2022 (Revised September 2022)
  • Case

Birla Carbon Egypt: Building Soft Power in a Foreign Country

By: Jeremy Friedman and Malini Sen
Birla Carbon, a flagship business of the nearly $60-billion global conglomerate and India-headquartered Aditya Birla Group (ABG), is one of the world's top manufacturers and suppliers of high-quality carbon black. The largest among its 16 manufacturing plants is Birla... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Family Business; Disruption; Transformation; Diversity; Trade; Energy; Values and Beliefs; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Government and Politics; Private Ownership; Civil Society or Community; Risk and Uncertainty; Value Creation; Industrial Products Industry; Rubber Industry; Egypt; Africa; India; Asia; Atlanta; United States
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

the different dimensions of family wealth? Why is material wealth a blessing for some and burden for others? How can philanthropy help raise healthy, happy, and productive family members? These and other... View Details
  • September 2006
  • Teaching Note

Trinity Crystal (TN)

By: John A. Davis and Courtney Sampson
Teaching Note to (898-066). View Details
Keywords: Family and Family Relationships; Family Ownership; Entrepreneurship
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  • August 2013
  • Supplement

Lyric Dinner Theater (Video Supplement)

By: Jim Sharpe
Keywords: Turnarounds; Operations; Boards Of Directors; Family-owned Business; Hiring; Entrepreneurship; Family and Family Relationships; Family Business; Family Ownership; Entertainment; Negotiation; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Saint Louis
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  • July 1998 (Revised November 1998)
  • Supplement

The Pellegrins (B)

By: John A. Davis
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Management Succession; Family and Family Relationships; Family Ownership; Publishing Industry
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  • January 2009 (Revised February 2013)
  • Case

Appellation Shanxi: Grace Vineyard

By: William C. Kirby, Michael Shih-ta Chen and Keith Chi-ho Wong
Grace Vineyard was a rare family-owned, private winery in China that was set on establishing itself as a world-renowned, quality vintner. Judy Leissner, the second-generation company leader, was at a crossroads in how she wanted to grow the business that her father... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Growth and Development Strategy; Family Ownership; State Ownership; Expansion; Food and Beverage Industry; China
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  • February 2005 (Revised October 2006)
  • Teaching Note

Khalil Abdo Group (TN)

By: John A. Davis and Courtney Sampson
Teaching Note to (9-898-011). View Details
Keywords: Family Ownership
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  • 14 Nov 2019
  • Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family hands and largely closed to public scrutiny. The authors of a new... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2006
  • Supplement

The Bollingers: Negotiating with Wal-Mart (B)

By: James K. Sebenius and Ellen Knebel
Keywords: Negotiation; Family Ownership
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  • December 2016 (Revised December 2017)
  • Case

Faber-Castell

By: Ryan Raffaelli and Christine Snively
By 2016, Count Anton-Wolfgang von Faber-Castell had led the 255-year-old pencil manufacturer Faber-Castell through waves of technological change. The pocket calculator decimated Faber-Castell’s slide rule business in the 1970s, and computer aided design technology... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Style; Leading Change; Family Ownership; Manufacturing Industry; Germany
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  • January 2023 (Revised May 2023)
  • Case

Learning Resources: Driven by Purpose

By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah Mehta and Heather Poco
In January 2023, CEO Rick Woldenberg must make several strategic decisions for his family-owned toy company Learning Resources. View Details
Keywords: Change; Change Management; Ownership; Family Ownership; Leadership; Decisions; Consumer Products Industry; United States; Chicago; Illinois
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  • July 1998 (Revised February 2004)
  • Case

The Pellegrins (A)

By: John A. Davis
A father and son working together in their family-owned publishing company are at a decision point because the son feels he is ready to become president at the age of 31. View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Management Succession; Family and Family Relationships; Family Ownership; Publishing Industry
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  • August 1995 (Revised January 2007)
  • Case

The Schneider Building

By: William J. Poorvu and John H. Vogel Jr.
In May 1995, Jonathan Schneider, the president of the Schneider Co., is faced with several related problems. First, he needs to find a new facility that can accommodate his expanding business. Second, he needs to decide whether to lease or purchase this new facility.... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Property; Leasing; Expansion; Real Estate Industry
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  • February 2014 (Revised August 2015)
  • Case

The Estate Tax Debate

By: Matthew Weinzierl, Katrina Flanagan and Valerie Galinskaya
Per dollar of revenue, no tax policy generates more sound and fury than the taxation of estates. To supporters, the tax is a break on the concentration of wealth and power and an easy way to fund redistribution. To opponents, the tax is an unjust punishment of the... View Details
Keywords: Atkinson-Stiglitz; Optimal Capital Taxation; Bequest Motives; Taxation; Family and Family Relationships; Property
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  • 06 Jan 2020
  • News

Home Grown

Granite Equity, a nontraditional private investment and holding company in St. Cloud, Minnesota, aims to find and support local, family businesses and grow them right where they are. The firm looks for companies that value employee... View Details
Keywords: Finance
  • October 2002 (Revised February 2011)
  • Case

Union Corrugating Company (A)

By: Paul W. Marshall and Julia Stevens
Lauri Union graduates from Harvard Business School and takes over her family's steel-corrugated roofing and siding manufacturing firm, which her mother has most recently run. The industry is mature, entry barriers to competitors are low, and the company is over 50... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Family Business; Entrepreneurship; Organizational Culture; Family Ownership; Gender; Manufacturing Industry; Steel Industry; Industrial Products Industry
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  • November 1995 (Revised October 1997)
  • Case

Francisco de Narvaez at Tia (A)

By: Linda A. Hill and Stacy Palestrant
Describes Francisco de Narvaez's leadership efforts to transform his family-owned business into a market-driven, professionally run global company. Covers the events from 1989 to 1992. View Details
Keywords: Leading Change; Family Business; Family Ownership; Global Strategy; Problems and Challenges
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