Bringing together next-generation family enterprise leaders already working in their families’ businesses to share best practices and grow personally and professionally.

Growth can bring unwanted side effects: leadership overload, employee burnout, more complicated systems and processes, and a change to the startup's culture.

Entrepreneurial families face additional complexities when considering transferring wealth to the next generation

Chief executive Mohammed Abdulmagied Seddiqi reflects on how a humble shop grew into a market leader

Research from Grant Thornton shows succession planning is still the number one challenge facing Aussie family businesses, and most don’t have a plan nailed down.

Written by MarketBeat Staff September 19, 2025 Family-run firms might not grab the same headlines as the big corporations, but the data shows they have carved out lasting appeal for job seekers. When we analyzed the list of top names from our poll of 3,012 job seekers, certain patterns stand out - about geography, industries, and how heritage shapes careers. Here are the full rankings. Family Fortunes The below shows the top family run businesses across America that job seekers would most like

Investor and "Shark Tank" star Kevin O'Leary once warned against mixing family with money, offering blunt advice on lending, borrowing and even working with in-laws. O'Leary's Rule On Lending To In-Laws In a May 2025 Fox News clip, O'Leary cautioned viewers to steer clear of financial entanglements with extended family. When asked about lending to in-laws, he suggested gifting money instead — but only once. O'Leary said, "Never lend or borrow situations between in-laws. Just gift it to them. But

This experiential exercise is designed to enhance student learning about the four parenting styles and how they affect the dynamics within the family firm.

A family business adviser shares how to improve family dynamics to help younger family members get ready for top roles.

This classroom exercise helps students experience and understand the factors behind startup success and failure.

Surround yourself with smart people who are not afraid to give honest feedback, and the most viable ideas will emerge.

This advice from one of our best-read articles in 2020 still rings true for startups, small businesses and family ventures who are trying to hang on until things stabilize.

Pop culture is pedagogically potent in this engaging semester-long honors course, which has received rave reviews from students. 

Women improve financial performance, make fewer mistakes and encourage more innovators to speak up.

Intuitive problem-solvers tend to leave their businesses sooner than analytical types. Startups need both types of thinkers to be successful.

Forget the toddler tycoon. Like the Beatles learned in Hamburg, true mastery of entrepreneurship comes from practice, practice, practice.

Startups and ventures led by women face bias and higher standards when they borrow from family members and friends.

Concentrate less on succession planning and more on managing conflict and making the firm profitable.

This case study explores how toxic or inept founders can derail even promising new companies and products. The risk is higher when one of the founders wields disproportionate power and influence.

This classroom exercise dissects the five approaches to managing disputes, and their likely outcomes.

Family business mergers enjoy greater harmony and better financial performance than mergers involving non-family firms.

Family members may feel “trapped” in conflicts, unable to resolve substantive issues without damaging their familial relationships. This often leads to disputes that persist for decades. 

Many want to know where they will fit in the family enterprise; how the wealth will be divided; and how the business will be governed as the family grows in complexity.

The best processes and systems come not from outside advisers and experts, but from how families actually live, relate to one another, and make decisions.