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  • 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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  • August 2020
  • Article

Contextual Determinants of Parental Reflective Functioning: Children with Autism versus Their Typically Developing Siblings

By: Yael Enav, Dana Erhard-Weiss, Amit Goldenberg, Marguerite Knudston, Antonio Y. Hardan and James J. Gross
In this study, we examined parental reflective functioning using the Parental Developmental Interview when parents were talking about their interactions with their child with autism versus the child’s typically developing siblings. Our sample included 30 parents who... View Details
Keywords: Autism Spectrum Disorders; Family Functioning And Support; Parents; Reflective Functioning; Siblings; Health Disorders; Family and Family Relationships
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  • 09 Jul 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Five Steps to Better Family Negotiations

a family member doesn't know what his or her interests really are, a supportive family can encourage the family member to talk about possible... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra
  • August 2014
  • Background Note

The Structure and Functioning of Art Markets

By: Mukti Khaire and Eleanor Kenyon
The production, valuation, and consumption of contemporary art are guided by cultural and economic forces that play out in primary and secondary markets. Artists seek the attention of art dealers, who, along with auction houses, play a large role in determining what is... View Details
Keywords: Art Dealer; Art Market; Arts; New York (city, NY)
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  • August 2019 (Revised July 2023)
  • Module Note

Demystifying the Family Enterprise: Module 1 - The Family

By: Christina R. Wing, Madeline Keulen and Vicki Morton
Module 1 of Demystifying Families in Business focuses on the Family. The Family unit forms the bedrock of the organizations that comprise the collective Family organization, specifically, the virtues that define the Family members’ rules of engagement, and the... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Family and Family Relationships; Governance; Values and Beliefs; Business Organization
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  • November 1990 (Revised October 1994)
  • Case

Apple Computer (C): The Human Resource Function

Explores how the human resource (HR) function at Apple Computer can best support the company's strategy. Describes in detail the HR function. The function is considering a reorganization at the end of the case, in response to criticism from non-HR employees and... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Human Resources; Business Strategy; Computer Industry; United States
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  • 18 Oct 2018
  • News

$7.5 Million Gift from Debra and Leon Black Family Foundation to Support U.S. Military and Veteran Fellowship Program

  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

The CEO and the Functions of Leadership

In a working paper presented at the June colloquium, HBS professors Michael Porter and Nitin Nohria consider the CEO’s role in the large, complex organization that is typical in today’s global economy. An excerpt follows: “CEOs must... View Details
  • Teaching Interest

Demystifying the Family Enterprise

By: Christina R. Wing

This course is primarily designed for students who are pursuing a career in family run businesses, family owned businesses, investment roles in family offices, or students that might invest in or wholly purchase a family owned business through a private equity firm,... View Details

  • 13 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis

accountability. Focused tightly on the bottom line, these companies don't know how to quantify the value of legacy functions, which often evolve into jobs that simply support those departments that drive the bottom line, such as sales.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Jan 2012
  • News

Charter Supporter

those opportunities.” An excellent tennis player, Burke volunteered to teach the sport as a teenager in Milwaukee’s inner city. “It taught me a lot,” she said. “You see kids with a passion for life and talents View Details
Keywords: Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools
  • 17 Jul 2020
  • News

Support System

of their harvest or the ability to move their product beyond Africa to be marketed and sold. The result? They take what they could get from the traders who showed up in the village with trucks from time to time. It is a problem Akuete... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
  • 29 Jul 2021
  • News

Support System

their harvest or the ability to move their product beyond Africa to be marketed and sold. The result? They take what they could get from the traders who showed up in the village with trucks from time to time. Through a View Details
  • 04 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors

physical/psychic nourishment and comfort when the world is crashing in on you? Family serves this purpose often and best. 'Burning your boats' undermines this View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Lumry Chair Supports IT and Entrepreneurship

to "share the blessings that my family has been given." A 1969 graduate of Harvard College, Lumry is president of Acorn Ventures, Inc., in Bellevue, Washington, a firm that provides seed capital, financial engineering, strategic planning,... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
  • 17 Jan 2019
  • News

Why Business Should Support Employees Who are Caregivers

  • August 2017
  • Article

Effective Leadership of Surgical Teams: A Mixed Methods Study of Surgeon Behaviors and Functions

By: J. Stone, E. Aveling, M. Frean, M. Shields, C. Wright, F. Gino, T. Sundt and S.J. Singer
The importance of effective team leadership for achieving surgical excellence is widely accepted, but we understand less about the behaviors that achieve this goal. We studied cardiac surgical teams to identify leadership behaviors that best support surgical teamwork.... View Details
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Leadership; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

Family Matters

ease that burden, HBS made an investment in Thompson-Woode. Alongside traditional financial aid, which included fellowships and loans, Thompson-Woode was awarded the Forward Fellowship, a $30,000, two-year grant designed to assist... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 12 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

The Three Components of Family Governance

family companies is shown in Table 1. Table 1 Structures and Plans to Govern a Family Business System STRUCTURE PLAN CEO TOPMANAGEMENT BOARD OF DIRECTORS View Details
  • 18 Apr 2016
  • Blog Post

Meet the HBS Family Business Club

family-controlled enterprises. Issues that arise in family business systems are often complex and emotional. When handled poorly, the complex dynamics of a family business... View Details