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Family Enterprises resilience is tested as one family’s struggle through multiple crises offers best practices for others facing challenges and uncertainty.

Leaders of family firms are struggling with multiple role identities, and poor board management is putting the future of family enterprises at risk.

Tolaram’s Mohan Vaswani and Sajen Aswani on how the family enterprise has achieved success across four generations, three continents, and 75 years.

Taking tangible next steps from the success of a 70-year-old craft firm and applying transferable advice to family businesses across every sector.

Bruce Grossman shares his family’s journey from mining to building Arca Continental, Latin America’s second-largest Coca-Cola bottler, and their commitment to legacy and impact.

IMD Family Business Professor Peter Vogel interviews Cristina Carvajal, president of the Carvajal family council about the Columbian family’s 120-year success

Family offices are uniquely positioned to drive positive change through impact investing by leveraging their wealth, influence, and values to create a legacy that transcends financial returns.

Philanthropic foundations are combining resources to tackle grand challenges and increase impact. Here are six simple learnings for all organizations looking to forge partnerships with others.

The key elements that show the crucial role of private and family-owned businesses in development, ESG, community, and social equity.

Overconfidence in business can be beneficial yet risky. Understand your thinking and narratives to mitigate potential disasters.

The strategic use of the past in firms is more complex than previously thought, but also more powerful and could even boost innovation.

Dato’ Yong Yoon Li & Chen Tien Yue of Royal Selangor discuss leveraging family charters & social bonding to tackle challenges in family firms.

IMD’s Peter Vogel outlines three lessons that non-family leaders can learn from the Sika takeover battle.

Look who I know! How family firms seek to overcome their “outsider” status as they expand internationally

Demystifying the concept of the family office, exploring emerging trends in the field of dynastic wealth, and sharing best ways to safeguard your family legacy.

Baby boomers exiting workforce prompts succession concerns for first-gen family business owners, warns Simon Minder.

From value creation in Asia to the challenges posed by volatile financial sectors, the considerations for families venturing into the world of wealth management

There are many measures of success, but often companies get trapped by only seeing the financials. If you set non-financial KPIs across your organization, you will see how different aspects of your business can pay off in new ways.

Family-owned businesses, can be successful innovators – providing they can assemble an appropriate package of incentives

Philanthropy can have a powerful galvanizing effect on the broader family business ecosystem – but extracting the greatest benefit requires making trade-offs

Susanne Stein explains how she harnessed AI to transform the company from a traditional publishing house to a cutting-edge online legal publisher.

Emotions are not often talked about in most organizations and yet they are a significant factor in every decision made. Neuroscience and behavioral economics have clearly demonstrated that we are emotional beings who happen to think, rather than t…

To sell, merge, list or delist is a difficult decision that many business-owning families face at some point. Peter Vogel reflects on just such a turning point in the history of Firmenich, a 127-year-old Swiss family business which earlier this ye…