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25 Oct 2023
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How to Bring an Outside CEO into the Family Business

October 25, 2023
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How to Bring an Outside CEO into the Family Business

One of the challenges for a family-owned business is the transition to a non-family member as CEO — a transition most multigenerational businesses eventually face. Onboarding the new CEO is one piece of this challenge. To help make the onboarding successful, use a... View Details

Keywords: Family Ownership; Management Succession; Transition

10 Nov 2017
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Girl’s Pendant Found at Nazi Camp Site Reunites a Family

lost girl. “We had this person who was completely forgotten, even by her surviving relatives,” said Chaim Motzen (MBA 2006), who pieced together the girl’s family tree and told the story to the Times of Israel. In his research, he was... View Details

Keywords: Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment

September–October 2024
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Should a Family Business Accept a Returning Daughter’s Radical Proposal?

By: John D. Macomber

A family-owned and controlled conglomerate in Cote d'Ivoire, West Africa, has to decide what titles and authority to give to a daughter who is being courted to leave a promising career in Europe to come back and join the business. The choices of role range from an... View Details

Keywords: Succession Planning; Power Grid; Family Business; Management Succession; Emerging Markets; Business Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Côte d'Ivoire

16 Dec 2024
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Harvard Professor on How to Not Bankrupt Your Family

09 Mar 2012
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Rome Looks to Italian Families to Fund Its Debt

17 Nov 2020
Blog Post

Partners and Families Are an Integral Part of the MBA Experience

the perspective of the significant others who have come to campus with their students. Partners are often active members of the HBS community, involved in clubs, section events and may even audit classes. Therefore, students with significant others and View Details

September 2021
Supplement

Ensuring Your Family’s Future: The Alagil Family Office (B)

By: Lauren Cohen, Esel Çekin and Fares Khrais

Keywords: Family Business; Financial Services Industry; Saudi Arabia

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May 2016 (Revised September 2016)
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Hillside Beach Club: Delivering the Ultimate Family Vacation in the Mediterranean

By: Rajiv Lal and Gamze Yucaoglu

In 2015, Edip Ilkbahar, HBC’s founder and CEO, was looking over the plans for a new branch in Cyprus. Since the inception of the company by the Alarko Group of companies in 1994, Ilkbahar’s company had enjoyed high occupancy, high guest satisfaction, and high... View Details

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09 May 2023
Cold Call Podcast

Can Robin Williams’ Son Help Other Families Heal Addiction and Depression?

Keywords: Re: Lauren H. Cohen; Health; Entertainment & Recreation

October 2000
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Francisco de Narvaez at Tia: Selling the Family Business

By: Linda A. Hill and Kristin Doughty

In January 1999, Francisco de Narvaez sold Tia, his family's retail business in Argentina. De Narvaez reflects on the decision to sell and the selling process. View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Business Exit or Shutdown; Decisions; Argentina

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01 Feb 1999
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Classmates Rally to Help Family Stricken with Rare Disease

Children's Pompe Foundation, a nonprofit organization that John Crowley and some HBS classmates have recently established to raise money for research and to help ease the financial burden of the families of children who have the disease.... View Details

October 2022
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Star Magnolia Capital: Becoming Experts at Finding Experts

By: Lauren Cohen, Hao Gao, River Ewing and Grace Headinger

Shinya Deguchi, Founder and Managing Partner of Star Magnolia Capital, a Shanghai-based multi-family office (MFO), considered how to convince a new prospective family that the MFO’s endowment model approach would best suit their needs. In recent decades, there has been... View Details

Keywords: China; Asia; Family Office; Shanghai; Financial Industry; Asset Management; Financial Instruments; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Investment; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Human Capital; Family Business; Financial Services Industry; China; Shanghai

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03 Jul 2020
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Raj Choudhury Sees a Future Where You Don’t Have to Move Your Family for a Job

27 Mar 2019
News

German Family to Give $11M After Learning Extent of Nazi Past

Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Panera Bread, Peet’s Coffee & Tea, cosmetics giant Coty, and other consumer brands. Peter Harf was a 2011 recipient of HBS’s Alumni Achievement Award. Harf told the AP that when he and the current Reimann family... View Details