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Our curated collection of the most insightful, useful, and relevant resources about family enterprise. We sift through publications around the world, and bring you a carefully chosen selection of the books, articles, videos, cases and knowledge worth sharing.

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3 Things Family Enterprises Should Do to Prepare for the Next Recession

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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30 Years, 3 Lessons

Cambridge Family Enterprise Group

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4 Actions to Take: Family Business Owners and Boards Must Act Now in the Wake of the Coronavirus Crisis

Cambridge Family Enterprise Group

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8 Ways Family Enterprises are Doing Good for the World Through the Covid-19 Crisis

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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A New Source of Leadership Inspiration: Next Generation Family Enterprise Leaders

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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Active Listening

Harvard Business Review

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Assessing and Enhancing Individual Power in the Family Business System

Harvard Business School

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Bacardi Limited Announces CEO and Leadership Succession Plan

Business Wire

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Boomers and Millennials: Adapting to Generational Change

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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Bringing Silicon Valley Inside

Harvard Business Review

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Build Your Trust Advantage: For Brazilian Family Businesses

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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Building Effective One-on-One Work Relationships

Harvard Business Review

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Building the Family Ownership Team: Part II on Family Ownership

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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Business Family Dynamics

Harvard Business School

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Can You Say What Your Strategy Is?

Harvard Business Review

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Cash is King, but Value Creation is a Family’s Long-term Goal – Even During a Crisis

Cambridge Family Enterprise Group

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CEO Succession in the Family Business: A Better Plan for Success

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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Compensating Family Employees in a Family Business

Harvard Business School

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Conducting a Performance Appraisal Interview

Harvard Business Review

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Coping with Conflict

Harvard Business Review

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Dealing with Generational Age Differences Among Cousins in a Family Business

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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Definitions and Typologies of the Family Business

Harvard Business School

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Developing Your Next CEO

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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Don’t Overlook Ownership Succession

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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Emotionally Intelligent Leadership

Harvard Business Review

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Entrepreneurship is Your Future

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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Example of a Family Member Who Trained Herself for the Shareholder Role

Fortune

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Families Today Must Think Like Owners

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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Family Business Board Composition:
Do You Have the Right People Around Your Board Table?

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Family Business Ownership Goals Worksheet

Harvard Business School

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Family Business System Action Planning Worksheet

Harvard Business School

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Family Resilience in the Time of Corona

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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Family Unity: What is it, why it’s vital, and
how to achieve it

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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Family Wealth Strategies for Turbulent Times: The SGA Formula for Success

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Finally, Evidence That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

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Financial Policy from the Shareholder Perspective

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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Founder Ralph Lauren’s Second Attempt at CEO Succession: What We Can Learn

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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Four Options for Your Next CEO

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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From Family Director Pathos to Board Ethos

Journal of Management Studies

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From Family Director Pathos to Board Ethos: Managing Multiple Role Identity Struggles in the Boardroom of Family Firms

Cristina Bettinelli, Alfredo De Massis, Manisha Singal, John Davis

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From the Archives: Establish a Personal Advisory Board

MIT Sloan Management Review

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Fundamentals of Family Business System Governance

Harvard Business School

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Governance of the Business Family

Harvard Business School

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Governance of the Family Business

Harvard Business School Publishing

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Governance of the Family Business Owners

Harvard Business School Publishing

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Growing Family Wealth from Generation to Generation

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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Has leadership succession in family businesses changed in today’s turbulent environment? 

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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Here’s to Family Spirit

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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Hold Them or Fold Them? When to Sell Your Family Business and When to Keep It

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy

Harvard Business Review

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How Panda Express Grew From Family Business to Global Empire

NBC News

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How Three Circles Changed the Way We Understand Family Business

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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How to Fire a Shareholder

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business Review

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How to Stay Stuck in the Wrong Career

Harvard Business Review

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Incentives Within Organizations

Harvard Business Review

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Inside The Family Firm: The Role Of Families In Succession Decisions and Performance

Quarterly Journal of Economics

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Integrated Strategic Planning for the Family Business System

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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Keep Calm and Manage Disruption

MIT Sloan Management Review

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Keeping Pace with Creative Destruction

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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Key Diagnostic Parameters of Family Enterprise Functionality

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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Leadership Lessons from Great Family Businesses

Harvard Business School

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Leadership Styles for Turbulent Times

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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Leading the Family as Well as the Business: What Great Leadership Looks Like in the Next Generation

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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Leading the Family Business System: It Takes a Village (Part 1 of 4)

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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Leading the Family Business System: It Takes a Village (Part 2 of 4)

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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Leading the Family Business System: It Takes a Village (Part 3 of 4)

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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Leading the Family Business System: It Takes a Village (Part 4 of 4)

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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Letting Go and Holding On: Managing Change in Family Companies

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time

Harvard Business School

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Management Development Plan in a Family Business

Harvard Business School

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Managing Performance

Harvard Business Review

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Managing the Family Business: Market Basket’s Lessons About Buyouts

Harvard Working Knowledge

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Marriott’s Executive Chairman on Choosing the First Nonfamily CEO

Harvard Business School

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Meet our new CEO, John Griff

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Meet The 25 Land Barons Who Collectively Own 1% Of America

Business Insider

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Nasty, brutish, short: Why businesses prosper then die at an ever faster pace

City A.M.

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Negotiating Effectively in Family Business Systems

Harvard Business School

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Negotiating Your Entry into Your Family Business

Harvard Business School

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Nobody Does It Better: How Family Companies Quietly Outperform

Editorial Interview of John Davis

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Note on Measuring Controlling Shareholders’ Ownership, Voting, and Control Rights

Harvard Business School

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Note on Valuing Control and Liquidity in Family and Closely Held Firms

Harvard Business School

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Note On Work Relationships

Harvard Business School

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Open Letter to Family Enterprises from CFEG

Cambridge Family Enterprise Group

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Optimists and Pessimists

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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Organization Design of Owner-Managed Companies

Harvard Business School Publishing

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Performance Evaluations Of Family Members

Harvard Business School

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Preparing Family Business Cases

Harvard Business School

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Preparing for Selling your Legacy Business — and the Role of Wealth Management

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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Principles of Family Business System Change

Harvard Business School

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Principles of Founder Succession

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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Professionalizing the Family Business: It’s Not What You Think It Is

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence

Harvard Business School

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Relationships Among Siblings and Cousins in a Family Firm

Harvard Business School

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Reminders for Owner-Managers Regarding the Board of Directors of Private Companies

Harvard Business School

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Responsibilities & Rights of Family Shareholders of a Family Business

Harvard Business School

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Southeast Asian Business Family Readiness is an Afterthought

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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Strategies for Growing Multigenerational Family Wealth

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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Succession Planning Worksheet

Harvard Business School

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Survival’s Secret Sauce

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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Systemic Investing for Social Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review | 12/12/23

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The Board’s New Innovation Imperative

Harvard Business Review

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The Case for Buy-Sell Agreements Between Family Owners

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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The Family Business and the Family Enterprise: Understanding Family-Owned Organizations Through the Lens of Two Fundamental Frameworks

Cambridge Family Enterprise Group

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The Family Constitution: It’s the Process That Counts, Not the Content

Harvard Business School

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The Firm that Helps Family Enterprises Last for Generations Celebrates 30-Year Milestone

Cambridge Family Enterprise Group

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The Five Derailers of Effective Succession

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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The Five Habits of Highly Successful Business Families

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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The History of Family Businesses, 1850-2000

Andrea Colli

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The Job of Ownership in a Family Business: Part I on Family Ownership

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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The Missing Link in Many Family Offices is the Family

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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The New Future: 6 Practices for Enterprising Families to Succeed

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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The Origin of Persistent Family Conflict

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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The Owners’ Mindset in the Age of Disruption

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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The Power of Talk: Who Gets Heard and Why

Harvard Business Review

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The Role of the Family Council During a Crisis

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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The Value of a Family Office:
A Deep-Dive into the Benefits and Services a Family Office Can Provide to a Family

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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The Ways Chief Executive Officers Lead

Harvard Business Review

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The Work of Leadership

Harvard Business Review

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To Have and to Hold

Economist

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Top Leadership: Who is Architecting Your Family Enterprise?

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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Tough Decisions: Family Business Dividends in Turbulent Times

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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Transferring Power in the Family Business

Harvard Business School

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Understanding Conflict in the Family Business

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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Understanding the Rise of the Global Super-Rich

The Atlantic Citylab

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W. Galen Weston

Reference for Business

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Want Collaboration?: Accept—and Actively Manage—Conflict

Harvard Business Review

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What Every CEO Should Know About Creating New Businesses

Harvard Business Review

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What is a Portfolio Board?

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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What Is Disruptive Innovation?

Harvard Business Review

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What Makes a Family Business Last?

Harvard Business Review

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What Makes Work Meaningful – Or Meaningless

MIT Sloan Management Review

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When a Family’s Ownership Control is Threatened: Lessons from the Redstone Family’s CBS/Viacom Battle

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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When to Fire Your CEO

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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Where to Invest Next as a Business Family

Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise

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Wilderness Leadership—on the Job

Harvard Business School

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Working with Relatives in the Family Firm

Harvard Business School