A couple running a successful B2B industrial business is considering selling the company to two of their descendants, both entrepreneurial MBA graduates. To make matters worse, the sales price and structure should fund the couple’s retirement and do justice to the remaining siblings. In addition, the father has had some health problems and the business …
It examines how families in business can apply five principles of negotiation that are used effectively by people who are not members of the family. The characteristics of family relationships and family business systems that affect the application of these principles are described.
The CEO of the Serum Institute of India (SII), a $ 12.8 billion Indian family business, faces a risky choice between principles and benefits. SII is the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer and Adar Poonawalla, CEO and son of the founder, must decide how to mitigate his responsibilities to meet the global need for an affordable, …
DARMSTADT, SEPTEMBER 2006. The deal with Serono dragged on for a long time; he had been on the run from the Merck Group, a 338-year-old German chemical and pharmaceutical company, for months. So much so that Merck Group and its family owners jumped on the Schering AG acquisition train last March to secure the growth …
This case describes the process of establishing and developing a joint venture in the United States in Belarus that will manufacture wood pellets in Belarus for sale in European Union countries. The combination of the high demand for biofuels in EU countries and the potential to make a good product at a low price in …
Provides guidance to members of the younger generation of an entrepreneurial family in negotiating their entry into the family business.
The Washington Post is now run by its fourth family member in three generations. The Graham family has somehow overcome the problems and pitfalls that hang over so many family businesses.
The case focuses on the risks and rewards of investing early in a successful consumer startup in an emerging market (ie, non-tech), from seed funding in 2004 to raising expansion capital in 2019. We are looking at the founder of Sula Vineyards, a Nasik Valley winemaker in India while making external fundraising decisions. Case (A) …
Chateau Qanafar was a small Lebanese winery that has been run as a family business since its founding in 2005. By 2015, Chateau Qanafar had managed to produce one of the best Middle Eastern wines and gained international recognition. Despite this success, the founder of the company understood that the general business environment in Lebanon …
The case highlights power struggles within a Thai family that owns and operates a fresh food stall in Bangkok. The case examines the depths to which the Thammawattana dynasty sank to maintain control of a profitable cash-in-hand business that made matriarch Suwapee Thammawattana a billionaire at the time of her death at the age of …