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09 Jan 2025
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Family Dynasties Increasingly Drive M&A Deals

28 Mar 2017
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Coming to HBS with My Family

February 17, 2008
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Family First In Tough Marketing Times

By: John A. Quelch

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Darwazah Video Clip - Family Business

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Family, Inc. Historical Development of German and US Family Firm

Family-owned businesses are the most common form of business organization worldwide. This project deals with the main characteristics of closely-held ownership and more precisely families as majority owners. It strives for an international comparison of family firms... View Details

28 Aug 2019
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Universities Aim to Educate Family Offices on Grooming Next-Gen Leaders

1 Aug 1972
Conference Presentation

Communes, The Family and Sex Roles

By: R. M. Kanter

Keywords: Civil Society or Community; Family and Family Relationships; Gender

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December 2018 (Revised January 2019)
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Junson Capital: Building an Institutionalized Family Office

By: Christopher J. Malloy, Lauren H. Cohen, Hao Gao and Dawn H. Lau

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November 2024
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Is a Single-Family Office Right for You?

By: Christina R. Wing, George Jackoboice and Justin Huang

Twenty years ago, the term “family office” was used infrequently and often reserved for the most storied families such as the Rockefellers or the Kennedys. Now, “family office” is on the tip of the tongue of every investor, wealth manager, and company. However, the... View Details

Keywords: Family Office; Family Business

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01 Aug 1998
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Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center

making a generous gift to the School to facilitate the construction of a new MBA campus center, scheduled for completion by the summer of 2000. The gift extends long-standing, close ties between the Spangler family and HBS. Both Dick... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

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Hancock Family Papers | Baker Library

Hancock Family Papers The Hancock family of Boston included wealthy colonial merchant Thomas Hancock (1703-1764) and his nephew John Hancock (1737-1793), president of the Second Continental Congress,... View Details

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Informal Family Insurance and the Design of the Welfare State

By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch

We study unemployment benefit provision when the family also provides social insurance. In the benchmark case, more generous State transfers crowd out family risk-sharing one-for-one. An extension gives the State an advantage in enforcing transfers through taxes... View Details

Keywords: Insurance; Design; Welfare

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18 May 2020
News

Create a Culture of Generosity and Communication in Your Family Business

19 Oct 2018
Blog Post

Moving to the U.S. With a Family

move to Boston and build strong relationships with our new friends. Setting up our house and making a home on campus Moving with a family can be challenging in any circumstance if you do it on your own, but we were fortunate enough to... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building

had invested in was struggling, Hawes's sense of obligation to his investors took him and his family to Tampa to work with the failing enterprise. "It took us a year and a half," he recalled with characteristic enthusiasm, "but we fixed... View Details