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April 7, 2017
Article

Signs You’re Losing Control of Your Family Business

By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer

These red flags signal the need to reassert authority. View Details

18 Nov 2014
News

Enabling families to navigate the aging process

Caring for her aging parents led Janet Simpson Benvenuti (MBA 1985) to launch a company that helps other families find resources that are right for their own parents’ needs. (Published November 2014) View Details

23 Jan 2020
News

Managing the Trickiest Parts of a Family Business

June 2012
Background Note

Note on Financing Growth in Family Firms

By: Belen Villalonga

Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Family Business; Private Equity; Joint Ventures; Initial Public Offering

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28 Apr 2020
Blog Post

A Crash Course in Saving a Family Business

having a roaster on site and only serving organic coffee are what differentiated Bean&Bean from the many other coffee shops in New York when her family launched the company 12 years ago. While Han knows... View Details

01 Oct 2000
News

Linda B. Kanner: All in the Family

recalls. "I wasn't sure the idea would be fundable with a family team, but the venture community liked the combination of Adam as the young, bright, in-touch-with-the-market CEO and me as the experienced... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

24 Apr 2014
News

Student turns family health crisis into online solution

When Shana Hoffman (MBA 2014) and her family tried to navigate the world of health care in the US to help Hoffman’s father with his medical issues, the electrical systems engineer looked at the problem from... View Details

1997
Book

Generation to Generation: Life Cycles of the Family Business

By: K. Gersick, J. A. Davis, M. M. Hampton and I. Lansberg

Keywords: Family Business; Business Cycles

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01 Sep 2020
News

When Your Boss Doesn't Respect Your Family Commitments

24 Apr 2014
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Driving the family business onto a global stage

Anand Mahindra (AB 1977, MBA 1981), as chairman and managing director of Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M), has grown the family business into a thriving Indian multinational automotive manufacturing corporation,... View Details

February 2023 (Revised April 2023)
Case

Kvadrat: Focus, Execute, and Grow

By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott

Kvadrat was a family-owned global textiles company. The company had enjoyed impressive top-line growth and was shifting gears to emphasize profitability via a shorter strategic agenda. Agenda items included: U.S. expansion, generating improved margins in its consumer... View Details

Keywords: Growth; Culture; International Expansion; Organization; Family Business; Leadership; Growth and Development; Strategy; Organizations; Supply Chain; Family Ownership; Profit; Organizational Culture; Denmark

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June 2024
Teaching Plan

Can Families Conquer Private Equity? Pritzker Private Capital

By: Lauren Cohen and Sophia Pan

Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 224-078. View Details

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18 Nov 2015
News

Robert and Myra Kraft Family Foundation Establish $20 Million Endowment at Harvard Business School

Keywords: Scientific Research and Development Services

08 Oct 2020
News

Harvard Business School Announces Establishment of The Joseph Bower Family Fund

June 2016
Case

Augustine Heard & Co.: Building a Family Business in the China Trade (B)

By: William C. Kirby and Joycelyn W. Eby

In 1861, the Heard brothers faced a decision: should they continue their family firm's business model that had made them a successful commission house in China, or was it time to make fundamental adjustments to their work? This case reveals that the brothers decided to... View Details

Keywords: China; Mercantilism; Family Business; China

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