How AmorePacific Became the Hottest Name in Cosmetics Through Innovation
That a company would break through as an industry through innovation is not something new in 2017. Many companies develop new technology or processes...
The Hyatt Empire: How the Pritzker Brothers Revolutionized the Hotel Industry
The idea that a multi-billion-dollar empire was launched from a chance encounter in Fat Eddie’s coffee shop with a cheque written on a napkin...
[Podcast] Anna Maria Cammilli: Jewellery, the Italian Way
In this episode of The Family Business Podcast, Raffaella Renai, head designer and second generation family member of the Italian jewellery brand Anna Maria...
Hidden Resources: How Family Firms Use Their Past to Innovate
Photo by Kaboompics .com from Pexels
Family business researchers and practitioners have highlighted the distinct pool of resources including human, social and financial capital that...
Dolce & Gabbana: Made in Italy
They say that “You can take the boy out of Sicily but you can’t take Sicily out of the boy." For Stefano Gabbana and Domenico Dolce,...
Robin Li: The Man Who Took On Google and Won
The world is filled with millionaires who saw an industry just as it was about to take off and decided to get in on...
Block by Block, Piece by Piece: The Story of Lego
How did the Kristiansen family from Denmark turn their small local toy company into Lego, perhaps the most successful and globally recognizable toy brand...
How Family Strategy Can Increase Family Cohesion and Business Connectivity
Image source: Pixabay via Pexels
Family-owned businesses which install a family charta with binding rules are economically more successful. Moreover, a family constitution strengthens the...
3 Best Practices for New Product Development in Family Firms
Photo by rawpixel.com from Pexels
Family business governance can substantially influence the family firms’ ability to cope with novelty, uncertainty, and complexity, and thus play...
[Podcast] Scotland’s Family Businesses in a Post-Brexit World
Brexit is now a reality, and businesses across the United Kingdom are scrambling to deal with the implications of this geopolitical shift.
In this podcast...