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By David Deeds on Tue Mar 31 2020

The economic stimulus plan signed into law on March 27 puts the Small Business Administration in charge of disbursing financial aid to small businesses hurt by the coronavirus pandemic. It covers not Read more

By James Beal on Fri Mar 27 2020

TOP 25 FINALISTS ANNOUNCEMENT MINNEAPOLIS, March 27, 2020 -- It was another exciting year for e-Fest and the Schulze Entrepreneurship Challenge! Once again, our team of entrepreneurship judges pored Read more

By Kimberly Eddleston on Mon Mar 23 2020

With so many professors being required to move their courses online, the board of FamilyBusiness.org would like to ease the burden of their fellow scholars by offering advice. In this first article, Read more

By Daniel Van Der Vliet on Fri Mar 20 2020

Michael Cortelletti, owner and “Guardian Angel” of Food Democracy in Verona, Italy, has seen the affects of COVID-19 first hand, both as a business owner, and as a resident of Verona, Italy. As Read more

By David Deeds on Mon Mar 16 2020

Editor’s Note: Over the next few weeks we will be publishing articles on familybusiness.org and EIX.org to help businesses weather the turmoil caused by COVID19. Visit our home page daily for more Read more

By Daniel Forbes on Wed Feb 05 2020

Clay Christensen, the Harvard Business School educator who passed away in January 2020, changed the way people around the world think of innovation. Through widely-read books, such as "The Read more

Family firms typically emphasize one of two management approaches: stewardship, which stresses participation, adaptability and family harmony; and agency, which emphasizes discipline, management and Read more

By Howard E. Aldrich and Martin Ruef on Mon Jan 06 2020

Alongside the business media, academic research on entrepreneurship has been consumed by Silicon Valley mania, caught up for decades in the wild hype over startup “unicorns” and “gazelles.” Read more

By Kimberly Eddleston on Tue Dec 17 2019

While the holidays are supposed to bring magic and joy to people’s lives, they are also an immense source of anxiety and stress. Family can be the root cause of this stress -- and families who run Read more

By Steve Blank on Thu Dec 05 2019

EDITOR’S NOTE: Steve Blank, who has founded or co-founded eight startups, is best known as the Father of Modern Entrepreneurship and is credited with launching the Lean Startup movement, which for Read more