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    How Firms Respond to Mandatory Information Disclosure

    Mandatory information disclosure regulations seek to create institutional pressure to spur performance improvement. By examining how organizational characteristics moderate establishments’ responses to a prominent environmental information disclosure program, we... View Details
    • February 2025
    • Case

    What's Heiring Next? The Saga of the Murdoch Media Empire

    By: Lauren Cohen, Mayra Gazel and Sophia Pan
    As Lachlan Murdoch left the courthouse, he puzzled on the next phase of his battle for control over his father Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. With Rupert aging and his siblings determined to retain their voting rights, Lachlan was convinced that the future of News... View Details
    Keywords: Family Business; Lawsuits and Litigation; Rights; Management Succession; Family Ownership; Family and Family Relationships; Power and Influence; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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    Formulating technology commercialization strategies

    Even if young organizations succeed in acquiring the specialized talent necessary to further develop a recently-discovered technology, they may face an uncertain path in commercializing the original invention. Initial conceptions of what might constitute a useful... View Details

    • June 2025
    • Case

    (Family) Size Matters: Nico Oprée and the Decreasing Power of Family Unity over Time

    By: Lauren Cohen, Octavian Graf Pilati, Dominik V. Eynern and Sophia Pan
    Nico Oprée, a fourth-generation (G4) member of his family’s heavy manufacturing business, found himself reflecting on how the firm would navigate a deepening shareholder conflict. While the second generation (G2) had managed the business in harmony, dynamics shifted... View Details
    Keywords: Ownership; Family Businesses; Family; Family Functioning And Support; Family Business; Family and Family Relationships; Family Ownership; Acquisition; Governance; Resignation and Termination; Leadership Style; Management Succession; Size; Negotiation Offer; Private Ownership; Business and Shareholder Relations; Trust; Conflict of Interests; Conflict Management; Manufacturing Industry; Germany
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    • March–April 2022
    • Article

    School Choice in Chile

    By: Jose Correa, Natalie Epstein, Rafael Epstein, Juan Escobar, Ignacio Rios, Nicolas Aramayo, Bastian Bahamondes, Carlos Bonet, Martin Castillo, Andres Cristi, Boris Epstein and Felipe Subiabre
    Centralized school admission mechanisms are an attractive way of improving social welfare and fairness in large educational systems. In this paper, we report the design and implementation of the newly established school choice system in Chile, where over 274,000... View Details
    Keywords: Early Childhood Education; Secondary Education; Middle School Education; Family and Family Relationships; Welfare; Chile
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    • September 2024
    • Case

    Topaz: Navigating Governance, Legacy, and Change

    By: Christina R. Wing and Carla Larangeira
    Since its founding in 2011, the Garza Sada brothers and their father positioned Topaz among leading family offices in Monterrey, Mexico, with several assets under management. Topaz aspired to have a transformative impact across multiple Mexican industries. An industry... View Details
    Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Family Business; Governing and Advisory Boards; Managerial Roles; Management Succession; Family Ownership; Corporate Governance; Organizational Structure; Adoption; Financial Services Industry; Real Estate Industry; Education Industry; Energy Industry; Latin America; Mexico
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    • 27 Nov 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Voting Democrat or Republican? The Critical Childhood Influence That's Tough to Shake

    people they grow up around,” the study states. The depth of the data gave researchers a unique opportunity to compare political outcomes between siblings from the same family—specifically, when one sibling... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
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    Finance - Faculty & Research

    relationships. Did the expansion of the family branches in G3—where cousins and siblings might find themselves at odds—further complicate the path forward? June 2025 Case TfL Pension Fund and the 2022 Gilt Market Crisis By: Emil N.... View Details
    • 06 Jun 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    How Younger Immigrants Gain an Edge in American Business

    also allowed siblings to join. The authors tracked about 60,000 people, using census data to focus on those who: Were born in Vietnam during years they would have been eligible to immigrate under the law. Arrived in the US between 1989... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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    Europe - Global

    Did the expansion of the family branches in G3—where cousins and siblings might find themselves at odds—further complicate the path forward? June 2025 Case Transforming a Titan (A) By: George Serafeim and Lena Duchene Dimitri... View Details
    • 01 Oct 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Organizing the Family-Run Business

    "paper" board, existing only on paper, or acts as a "rubber stamp," validating whatever decisions the owner makes. During the Sibling Partnership stage, where two or more siblings have... View Details
    • 01 Mar 2024
    • News

    In Harmony

    walked here with his mother, who hid in a cave somewhere on the mountain with her mother and three siblings during the Korean War. A bomb blast—friendly fire from US troops—killed everyone except Kim’s mother and her younger brother. The... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea
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    Leadership - Faculty & Research

    also the integrity of family relationships. Did the expansion of the family branches in G3—where cousins and siblings might find themselves at odds—further complicate the path forward? Keywords: Ownership ; Family Businesses ; Family ;... View Details
    • 06 Feb 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents

    and back again to a local Radio Shack to buy parts for a succession of gadgets: homemade robots, hovercrafts, a solar-powered cooker, and devices to keep his siblings out of his room.” That passion continued to grow throughout Bezos’... View Details
    Keywords: by Tricia Gregg and Boris Groysberg; Retail
    • 12 Nov 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    The Three Components of Family Governance

    children can begin to learn about the business and develop relationships with their siblings and cousins. Figure 1: Basic Governance Structures of the Family Business System Family assembly activities include learning about the business... View Details
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    Ernesto Sterling

    classroom. The conversation was interactive, engaging, and full of energy. What is your favorite childhood memory? When I was six years old, my dad came from work one day and told me and my siblings that he had a surprise for us. He told... View Details
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    Nagi Otgonshar

    Another blackout. Another dark evening in Khovd – a small town in western Mongolia. I am eight years old. I whine and complain when I burn my hair on the flame of a candle while doing my homework. Next morning, I cry again while I am forced to walk along with my View Details
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    Megan Maloney

    only is the park incredible, but the people are even better! As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? I wanted to be a famous singer. Then when my sibling told me I couldn’t sing (as all siblings... View Details
    • 23 Apr 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Brand a Next-Generation Product

    very deliberate effort to market the iPad as a sibling to the Mac. Macs keep their names with each successive upgrade, analysts noted, while iPhones sport sequential numbers and letters to indicate improvements. “Consumers don't... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 01 Jun 1998
    • News

    Simmons Family Endows Professorship

    siblings cited a deep regard for the School and a desire to pay tribute to their parents. "We wanted to give back to an institution that means a lot to us," says Harris H. Simmons (MBA '80), who succeeded his father as president of Zions... View Details