governance
IKEA: The private investment business modelled on one of its stores
Underneath all the very convoluted ownership structure is a multilayered private investment business…
Survey shows how private equity can help family businesses
The research also highlighted how family businesses become more institutionalised - and professional…
Viewpoint: Dual-class shares, family businesses, institutional investors…and Marx
John Davis, chairman of the Cambridge Family Enterprise Group, on why dual-class stock structures are…
Viewpoint: Family businesses and the dangers of stretching for low hanging fruit
Without robust governance structures, the appointment of external board members might bring very little…
Viewpoint: Most family business advisers lack a crucial bit of knowledge
An understanding of cultural and legal differences affecting a family business isn't been appreciated…
When a family owner of a conglomerate faces prison is it right to praise family businesses?
The debate about creating more acceptable models of business will inevitably trundle on for many years…
Viewpoint: The Big Tent Approach: Being Ready, Willing, and Capable to Contribute to Family Enterprise
When a family member who does not work in the business understands that there are meaningful ways that…
Viewpoint: Why a code of conduct makes sense for private family businesses – the Italian example
A governance code of conduct has been proposed for Italian family businesses - it's about time
The Importance of Cultural Competence for Non-Family CEOs
Effectively, today there is a secondary market for non-family CEOs who've worked for family businesses..
Viewpoint: The underestimated double benefit for family businesses
Family identity can be just as important internally as it is externally
Notable & Quotable: Porsche-Piech families get dividend; a family office becomes a hedge fund…
Family Capital's weekly look at the goings-ons in the world of family capital
Notable & Quotable: Succession and LVMH; everyone wants to work for a family office…
Family Capital's weekly look at the goings-ons in the world of family capital