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- The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: Why it is Relevant to the Closely Held Family Business
- In corporate America, Sarbanes-Oxley act of the United States Congress reinforces and expands policies that have maintained confidence in the American capitalistic system for almost seventy years. The Act focuses on management accountability and corporate governance while carefully defining the role of professionals who provide legal, accounting, and other services....
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Need to Explore Family Issues in Family Business Assessment
- Although most professional service advisors who are experienced in working with family businesses would agree that family issues influence business decisions, one holds the view that the nature of its impact on family business is more profound than "influence". Certain common family situations or events should serve as red flags...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Consultation for the Consultants: Clinical Supervision of Family Business Consultation
- The complexities and tensions of family business consultation induce subjective hazards in client assessment, as well as in the psychodynamic relationships of the consultants. Using an objective, outside consultant to monitor these processes has helped to convert these dangers into powerful opportunities for learning. Five years of such consultation is...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Everything You Need to Know about Business Can Be Learned in the Game of Tennis and with a Lot More Fun
- It has been observed that everything one needs to know about business can be learned in the Game of Tennis. By this, they can certainly improve work performance and overall joy. Some of the lesson include: play loose and hit the ball better while exacting less toll on oneself, changing...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Destroying Myths and Creating Value: The Hollis Experience in the Publix Family Business
- When one hears the phrase "family business", what thoughts or images come to his/her mind? Based on the stereotype of family business, one may have shared the thoughts of many—the image of the dying breed of mom and pop stores that make just enough to get by, do little to...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Entrepreneurial Family: Refocusing on the Family in Business
- This monograph begins with this introductory chapter that puts in perspective earlier efforts in family business programming and links these efforts to current new perspectives and path breaking writings contend herein. Three major characteristics of the future successful family business programs are identified and discussed--multidisciplinary perspectives, high-quality research base, and...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Creating Effective Corporate Governance in Family Businesses
- The popular view of corporate governance in family businesses is that efforts to improve the situation are as likely to succeed as efforts to reform financing of American political campaigns. Commonplace wisdom has it that family businesses range from secret to hermetically sealed and that both fiduciary and non-fiduciary governance...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Fast-Growth Family Firms: Lessons from the Gazelles
- In an effort to better understand the fast-growth family firm, the article tells about an analysis where a set of companies growing faster than the Fortune 500 but maintaining the same level of profitability. These firms are family owned and family controlled. The average age of these firms is 17...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Growing Up Tage
- This article discusses two issues based on the development of family business. Author discusses the talk that he had with his father related to family business and describes the incidence that took place during that time. Part One: The Birth of Baby Burger King and Part 2: The Day I...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The "Unreal Repeal": A Closer Look at the 2001 Estate Tax Law
- While the proponents of the 2001 estate tax "repeal" touted the tax bill as great tax relief for those impacted by estate taxes, the reality of the new law falls short of that claim. The extreme complexity and temporary nature of the estate tax "repeal" along with the ongoing advisor...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Heritage and Tradition in Family Business: How Family-Controlled Enterprises Connect the Experience of their Past to the Promise of their Future
- Article points that Values driven families who control business enterprises build on their family's core values and relationship strengths to nurture future generations of leaders. These family-controlled businesses are "built to last." It explains that family business may be the greatest secret never told, or at least never reported. As...
- White papers 2001-01-01
- Will the Circle Be Unbroken? Issues Arising from Holding Family Businesses in Trust
- Family businesses are placed in trust for financial, tax or estate planning purposes, to ensure professional management of crucial family assets or to ensure continuing family control of the business. The benefits of each of these purposes for placing a family business in trust are well understood. In particular, control...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Family Businesses at the Millennium: Understanding the Challenges of "Mom and Pop"
- Article overviews that family-owned businesses constitute a unique market for professional service providers, but for a host of reasons most service providers are ill-equipped to deal effectively with family firms. Increased competition for market share and intensified demands from a better-educated generation of successor owners are likely to challenge the...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Financing Family Business: Alternatives to Selling Out or Going Public
- Family businesses, whether private or public, constitute a major segment of the American economic system. A conceptual framework, from a financial practitioner's perspective, is presented for simplifying the conflicting objectives of the business and its shareholders with respect to the fundamental issues of control, liquidity, and capital. The investment objectives...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- How the Next Generation Can Succeed in Family Business
- This article addresses a segment of the family businesses generally comprehended by the common sense understanding of that term. The focus of this essay is members of families who share a commitment to continuing a legacy of shared values as much as prudently managing their capital together. Article describes pools...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Making Peace between the Generations in Family Businesses
- http://www.genusresources.com/site/content/publications/articles/davidow_narva_peace.asp There are more than 200,000 American companies with annual revenues of at least $5 million or more. The vast majority is family controlled or family owned. Almost all of these families persevere without benefit of counsel on inter-generational family business issues. Instead of assuming that only an outside professional can...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- How Multi-Generational Family Firms Transfer Management Control Successfully
- Article concludes that the powerful and committed and often curmudgeonly and irascible individuals who dominate family businesses come in all ages, spring from all ethnic groups and races, and include both genders. But their ethnic, cultural and gender differences are less important than their common desire to have both healthy...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Philanthropy: A Lifetime Commitment
- This is an article that focuses on lifetime commitments for the business. In recent years, industry has been sharing its expertise with family foundations. Experts from business have been helping family foundations to arrange giving formulas, do site analyses, and manage the techniques and impact of giving. It focuses on...
- White papers 2003-01-01
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