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Interview with Charlie Kittredge, Chairman of Crane & Co., United States of America
Located in Dalton Massachusetts, Crane & Co. can trace its roots back to the American Revolutionary War, when their paper mill printed the very first colonial bank...
Interview with Heinrich Jessen, CEO, Jebsen and Jessen Southeast Asia, Singapore
From the coastal town of Aabenraa in what is now Denmark, two young men, Heinrich Jessen and Jacob Jebsen, whose fathers and grandfathers were sea captains, set out on a...
On the back of a technology revolution that has seen blazing fast internet speeds, sophisticated mobile devices, and increasingly smarter AI, the financial industry has undergone immense disruption. For the better part of this decade, financial technology, or Fintech...
Interview with Lucia Ceja, PhD, IESE Business School and Families in Business Analysis Center, Spain
Photograph by Daniel Santacatalina Laborda
The quest to discover the secret to happiness has been one which has preoccupied mankind since the dawn of recorded time....
Interview with Omar Otalora & Simon Otalora Procomon & Associates Panama
The story of Procomon & Associates started in 1981 with Omar Otalora who was a geological engineer passionate about aerial photography. What started as simply providing services in geological positioning...
Interview with Gary Guittard, CEO, Guittard Chocolate Company, United States of America
Northern California is home to many families whose ancestors came to San Francisco in the mid 19th century to pursue their luck in the gold rush. But one young...
Photo by Samuel Zeller on Unsplash
In March of 2016, a machine named AlphaGo beat a 18-time world champion in the ancient game of Go. This may not seem like a significant occurrence as machines have beaten human players in chess for years....
Interview with Jorge Aranguri Carranza Founder, Danper, Peru
When husband and wife team Jorge Aranguri and Rosario Bazan started their Peruvian agri-business company Danper in 1994, they did far more than just set the foundation for a fast-growing company. Not...
An Interview with Daniel Krauss, Co-Founder of Flixbus, Germany
Just a few years in existence, Germany’s Flixbus is already the poster child for a successful and global 21st century company. Enabled through technology, its three young founders took on the...
An Interview with Dave Munson, Founder of Saddleback Leather, United States of America
Texas-based husband and wife owners of Saddleback Leather, Dave and Suzette Munson, built their leather goods business by prioritising the highest quality for their products, treating employees...
Interview with Andreas von Specht, Founder and Managing Partner at AvS – International Trusted Advisors
Andreas von Specht, Founder and Managing Partner at AvS – International Trusted Advisors, has made it his mission to help family-owned businesses answer these delicate...
Interview with Dr. Leila Bouamatou, Mauritania
The challenges of succession in a family owned business are as numerous as they are complex. From bridging the generation gap to walking the line between innovating and honouring tradition, succession is never simple even...
Interview with Prof. Nadine Kammerlander, WHU Chair of Family Business, Germany
The challenges facing a family-owned business are wide-ranging; however, the Chair of Family Business sets out to become a thought leader by focusing on specific topics such as innovation,...
