Family ownership is a remedy for absolutist CEOs
Research shows that power is becoming concentrated at large American companies
Family offices should scrap the banker
Most family offices would be better hiring a non-financial CEO to get the best results
Tax changes vex German family businesses
Mittelstand businesses are concerned that changes to how they are taxed will damage them, and that in…
We aren’t all dead in the long run, just ask a family business
Increasingly policy makers don't like the short-term ideas of Keynesian economics, but when it comes…
Italy’s dual-share scheme will cement its family business culture
The government's change of tack has been painted as a victory for institutional shareholders, but it…
Why are family businesses sometimes so nasty?
The rhetoric around family firms is that they are ethical, but research seems to say that they can be…
Who will watch the watchmen? Family members, that’s who
A recent study argues that non-family CEOs are best for family firms, but only when monitored by a group…
Football and family businesses
Peugeot is selling a team that it established in 1928, and a London-based family business goes into battle…
Do cricket-loving CEOs really damage the economy?
A paper from a think-tank suggests that family members work so much less than non-family peers that their…
Nutella by numbers
Michele Ferrero, the man who turned his family confectionery business into a global giant, has died at…
Nut-rage heiress jailed – also Fosun, Bombardier, Tchenguiz and Rothschild
Korean Air's Heather Cho gets a one-year sentence, Nat Rothschild injects $100m into Indonesian coal,…
Wall Street takes on the Japanese robot masters
Two American hedge funds are pressuring family-controlled firms in Asia on their governance, but they…