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Entrepreneurs
Are Made Not Born
by Lloyd
E. Shefsky; McGraw-Hill, Inc.
ISBN: 0-07-057025-6
Shefsky
interviewed 200 entrepreneurs and draws on their experiences
to highlight targeted lessons in entrepreneurship.
To order a copy, please email: familyenterprises@kellogg.northwestern.edu |
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Family Business as Paradox
by John
L. Ward, Ph.D., Amy Schuman and Stacy Stutz
Rather than having to choose between the family and the business, the authors argue that if family-owned businesses can consciously manage and, synthesize...
ISBN: 978-0-230-24360-6, ISBN10: 0-230-24360-6 |
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Building A Successful Family Business Board: A Guide for Leaders, Directors, and Families
by Jennifer M. Pendergast, John
L. Ward, Ph.D. and Stephanie Brun De Pontet
Best practices for creating a board of directors for family businesses from the experts in the field
ISBN: 978-0-230-11154-7, ISBN10: 0-230-11154-8 |
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When Family Businesses are Best: The Parallel Planning Process for Family Harmony and Business Success
by Randel S. Carlock and John
L. Ward, Ph.D.
This book explores how effective planning and communication helps family businesses around the world address growth challenges as they strive to become high...
ISBN: 978-0-230-22262-5, ISBN10: 0-230-22262-5 |
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Succeeding Generations: Realizing the Dream of Families in Business
by Ivan Lansberg; HBS
ISBN: 978-0875847429
Explores leadership transitions in family businesses, offering a clear-eyed assessment of the different options, from direct succession to building partnerships between siblings and cousins... |
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Why
Others? Philanthropy as Opportunity
by
Etienne Eichenberger, Karin Jestin, Thierry Lombard,
Maurice Machenbaum, Matthieu Ricard, John
L. Ward, Ph.D., and GABS. |
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Why
me? Wealth: Creating, Receiving and Passing it on
by Denise Kenyon-Rouvinez, Thierry Lombard, Matthieu
Ricard, GABS, and John
L. Ward, Ph.D.
Eminent
family enterprise authors bring humor to their vast
knowledge of this subject. |
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Family
Values and Value Creation
(Introduction
& Chapter 5 "How Values Dilemmas
Underscore the Difficult Issues of Governing the Large,
Enterprising Family")
edited
by Josep Tapies and John
L. Ward
ISBN: 978-0-230-21219-01
The
study and research of the role of family values and
their impact on the creation of values. |
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Perpetuating
the Family Business: 50 Lessons Learned from Long-Lasting
Successful Families in Business
by
John
L. Ward, Ph.D
ISBN: 1-4039-3397-9
A
framework of insights and principles in which 50 lessons
for family businesses are presented using international
examples, cases, essential tools and checklists of best
practice. |
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Strategic
Planning for the Family Business
by Randel S. Carlock and John
L. Ward, Ph.D
ISBN: 0-333-94731-2
The
authors introduce the new concept of the Parallel Planning
Process, explaining how to integrate the needs and expectations
of the family and business systems in order to create
an organic and entrepreneurial unit. |
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Family
Business Key Issues
by
Denise Kenyon-Rouvinez and John
L. Ward, Ph.D
ISBN: 1-4039-4775-9
This
book is collection of articles by leading thinkers and
practitioners on family business and it covers such
issues as ensuring a healthy family business, family
strategy, governance and succession. |
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Creating
Effective Boards for Private Enterprises: Meeting the
Challenges of Continuity and Competition
by John
L. Ward, Ph.D; Jossey-Bass
ISBN: 1-55542-352-3
This
book shows how to build a dynamic board of directors
that can enhance the ability to conduct business of
owners of small to midsized private and family firms. |
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Keeping
the Family Business Healthy. How to Plan for Continuing
Growth, Profitability, and Family Leadership
by
John L. Ward, Ph.D; Jossey-Bass
ISBN: 1-55542-026-5
Fewer than one-third of family-owned businesses survive
until the second generation because owners or managers
avoid making decisions about the company's future. As
a result, they fail to adapt to changing ... |
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Unconventional
Wisdom: Counterintuitive Insights for Family Business
Success (IMD
Executive Development Series)
Order from efamilybusiness.com
Order from Amazon.com
by John
L. Ward, Ph.D (Editor)
ISBN: 0-470-02165-9
"IMD
- International Institute for Management Development
- has been the global meeting place for families in
business since 1988..." |
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The
Family Business Sourcebook, 3rd edition
Edited by Craig E. Aronoff, Ph.D., Joseph H. Astrachan,
Ph.D. and John
L. Ward, Ph.D
ISBN: 1-891652-07-9
The most comprehensive reference book on family business
issues, the 740-page Family Business Sourcebook II is
a thoroughly revised, updated and ... |
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Managing
Complexity in Global Organizations (IMD Executive Development
Series)
(Chapter
18) Managing Complexity: The Family Business
Experience
by John
L. Ward,
Ph.D. |
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Mastering
Global Corporate Governance (IMD Executive Development
Series)
(Chapter
8) How Governing Family Businesses is Different
edited
by Peter Lorange, Fred Neubauer, John
L. Ward, Ph.D., Bill George, Ulrich Steger
ISBN: 0-470-09041-3 |
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Family Education for Business-Owning Families. Strengthening Bonds by Learning Together
by Amy M. Schuman and John
L. Ward. © 2009
ISBN: 1-891652-27-5
This book aims to inspire you and your family to initiate a family education program that is suited to the needs of your family. |
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From
Siblings to Cousins: Prospering in the Third Generation
and Beyond
by Craig E. Aronoff, Ph.D. and John
L. Ward, Ph.D.
If
you are a sibling owner, this book will help you create
the circumstances to help your children become successful
team—if it’s the family’s goal to
continue in business together. This is a how-to book
aimed at helping the cousin generation continue working
together successfully. |
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The
Family Constitution: Agreements to Secure and Perpetuate
Your Family and Your Business
by
Daniela Montemerlo and John
L. Ward, Ph.D
The
two most effective practices implemented to protect
and preserve the family business are “1) to build
an independent board to strengthen the business and
2) to draft a Family Agreement to strengthen the family.”
This book is about the latter. |
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Family
Business Ownership: How to be an Effective Shareholder
by Craig E. Aronoff, Ph.D. and John
L. Ward, Ph.D
This
book explores the far deeper rewards--spiritual, psychological,
intellectual, emotional and financial-- that can come
from being an effective shareholder in a healthy family
business. |
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Make
Change Your Family Business Tradition
by Craig E. Aronoff, Ph.D. and John
L. Ward, Ph.D
The
current rapid rate of change makes ongoing success in
a family business an increasingly more difficult challenge.
This book provides a framework for all constituents
to embrace change for the success of the family enterprise. |
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Family
Business Values: How to Assure a Legacy of Continuity
and Success
by Craig E. Aronoff, Ph.D. and John
L. Ward, Ph.D
A family's values can be among the greatest competitive
advantages that owners can bring to their business. When
owning family's values form the heart of a business culture,
vital ... |
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Developing
Family Business Policies: Your Guide to the Future
by Craig E. Aronoff, Ph.D., Joseph H. Astrachan, Ph.D.
and John
L. Ward, Ph.D
Sooner or later, every business family needs to formalize
the structure and guidelines under which the family will
own and operate their business. |
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Making
Sibling Teams Work: The Next Generation
by Craig E. Aronoff, Ph.D., Joseph H. Astrachan, Ph.D.,
Drew S. Mendoza and John
L. Ward, Ph.D
Family businesses are now increasingly passed from founder
to next-generation sibling teams. Brothers and sisters
own and run ... |
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Family
Business Governance: Maximizing Family and Business Potential
by Craig E. Aronoff, Ph.D. and John
L. Ward, Ph.D
Effective governance empowers leaders of the business
and the family to make the most of the unique strength
of a family business: The synergy between a strong, unified
owning family ... |
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Financing
Transitions: Managing Capital and Liquidity in your Family
Business
by François M. de Visscher, Craig E. Aronoff, Ph.D.
and John
L. Ward, Ph.D
If a family-owned company is to endure and provide the
maximum potential opportunity for future generations,
it must plan for provision of both adequate ... |
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How
Families Work Together
by Mary F. Whiteside with Craig E. Aronoff, Ph.D. and
John
L. Ward, Ph.D
How Families Work Together emphasizes how to build positive
and constructive family relations by learning to make
the characteristics and dynamics of family life ... |
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Family
Meetings: How to Build a Stronger Family and a Stronger
Business
by Craig E. Aronoff, Ph.D. and John
L. Ward, Ph.D
Family Meetings: How to Build a Stronger Family and a
Stronger Business demonstrates the value of family meetings
and how to effectively use family meetings to achieve
family and ... |
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Preparing
Your Family Business for Strategic Change
by Craig E. Aronoff, Ph.D. and John
L. Ward, Ph.D
Responsible and disciplined strategic integration of
family and business goals, strengths and values produces
powerful results for family firms. Significant strategic
change is crucial ... |
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Family
Business Succession: The Final Test of Greatness
by Craig E. Aronoff, Ph.D. and John
L. Ward, Ph.D
Few challenges demand more of a business owner than passing
on the family business to the next generation. Family
members' lifelong hopes, dreams, ambitions, relationships,
even ... |
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Preparing
Successors for Leadership: Another Kind of Hero
by Craig E. Aronoff, Ph.D. and John
L. Ward, Ph.D
Another Kind of Hero: Preparing Successors for Leadership
focuses on how a family firm's next generation of leadership
can effectively enter the organization and develop essential
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More
Than Family: Non-Family Executives in the Family Business
by Craig E. Aronoff, Ph.D. and John
L. Ward, Ph.D
The success, growth and well-being of a family business
depends on its ability to attract, motivate, develop and
retain outstanding executives who are not kin. This booklet
will aid ... |
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Family
Business Compensation
by Craig E. Aronoff, Ph.D. and John
L. Ward, Ph.D
Compensation matters are among the most frequently asked
and complicated questions facing business-owning families.
What is fair? How can the rewards of ownership be distinguished
from ... |
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How
to Choose & Use Advisors: Getting the Best Family
Business Advice
by Craig E. Aronoff, Ph.D. and John
L. Ward, Ph.D
The success and survival of your family business may depend
on the professionals you choose to advise you on matters
of finance, law, taxes, family relations, business strategy,
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Generation to Generation: Life Cylces of the Family Business
by Ivan Lansberg et al.; HBS
ISBN: 978-0875845555
O.ne of the first comprehensive overviews of family business as a specific organizational form. Focusing on the inevitable maturing of families and their firms over time, the authors reveal the dynamics and challenges family businesses face as they move through their life cycles... |
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Defying
the ODDS: Case Studies of Nigerian Organizations that
have Survived Generations
Foreward by John
L. Ward, Ph.D
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Family
Business Through Darwin's Theory of Species
by Corinne Chaponnière and John
L. Ward, Ph.D
The purpose of this book is to explore with the reader
whether Darwin's theory of evolution is a valuable metaphor
for family business continuity. Is there, possibly,
a "family business biology"? Do Darwin's concepts
of struggle for life, adaptation, variation, mutation,
natural selection, procreation and inheritance provide
helpful insights for family business owners?
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Les
Enterprises Familiales (French)
Family Enterprises
edited
by Denise Kenyon-Rouvinez and John
L. Ward, Ph.D
ISBN:
2-13-054607-2
Paris: Presses Universitaire de France, 2004, 127 p.
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Como
Escoger y Trabajar Con Consultores En Empresa: Como
Obtener El Mejor Asesoramiento Profesional Para La Empresa
Familiar (Spanish)
How to Choose & Use Advisors: Getting
the Best Family Business Advice
by
Craig E. Aronoff and John
L. Ward, Ph.D
México:
McGraw-Hill Interamericana, 1999. 69p. (HD69.C6A7e)
ISBN: 970-10-2464-8 |
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La
Prueba Suprema de La Grandeza; La Eleccion Del Nuevo
Lider (Spanish Translation)
Family Business Succession: The Final Test
of Greatness
by
Craig E. Aronoff and John
L. Ward, Ph.D
México:
McGraw-Hill Interamericana, 2000. 47p. (HD62.25.A712e)
ISBN: 970-10-2696-9 |
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La
Sucesion En La Empresa Familiar: Un Nuevo Lider, Un
Nuevo Heroe (Spanish Translation)
Another Kind of Hero: Preparing Successors
for Leadership
by
Craig E. Aronoff and John
L. Ward, Ph.D
México:
McGraw-Hill Interamericana, 2000. 63p. (HD62.25.A713e)
ISBN: 970-10-2697-7 |
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Optimizando
El Potencial En La Empresa Familiar; Como Evitar Los
Juegos De Poder (Spanish Translation)
Family Business Governance: Maximizing Family
and Business Potential
by
Craig E. Aronoff and John
L. Ward, Ph.D
México:
McGraw-Hill Interamericana, 2000. 61p. (HD62.25.A71e)
ISBN: 970-10-2753-1 |
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Juntas
De Trabajo Exitosas Para Formar Empresas Familiares
Muy Solidas (Spanish Translation)
Family Meetings: How to Build a Stronger
Family and a Stronger Business
by
Craig E. Aronoff and John
L. Ward, Ph.D
México:
McGraw-Hill Interamericana, 1999. 53p. (HD62.25.A7e)
ISBN: 970-10-2463-X
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Como
Desarrollar La Empresa Familiar: Planificacion Estrategica
De Crecimiento, Rentabilidad & Liderazgo Familiar
Duraderos (Spanish Translation)
Keeping the Family Business Healthy. How
to Plan for Continuing Profitability, and Family Leadership
by
John
L. Ward, Ph.D
Buenos
Aires: El Ateneo, 1994. 216p. (HD62.25.W3e) ISBN: 950-02-3626-5 |
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Di
Padre In Giglio: L'Impresa Di Famiglia; Come Preparer
Il Passaggio Generazionale E Assicurare Continuita E
Prosperita Alle Aziende Familiari (Italian
Translation)
Keeping the Family Business Healthy. How
to Plan for Continuing Growth, Profitability, and Family
Leadership
by
John
L. Ward, Ph.D
ISBN:
88-204-3684-1 |
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