Informed Success: A Bibliography for Student Entrepreneurs

Navigate the complex decisions and critical relationships necessary to create and sustain a healthy family business—and business family. Though "family business" may sound like it refers only to mom-and-pop shops, businesses owned by families are among the most significant and numerous in the world. But surprisingly few resources exist to help navigate the unique challenges you face when you share the executive suite, financial statements, and holidays. How do you make the right decisions, critical to the long-term survival of any business, with the added challenge of having to do so within the context of a family?

The "HBR Family Business Handbook" brings you sophisticated guidance and practical advice from family business experts Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer. Drawing on their decades-long experience working closely with a wide range of family businesses of all sizes around the world, the authors present proven methods and approaches for communicating effectively, managing conflict, building the right governance structures, and more. In the HBR Family Business Handbook you'll find:
* A new perspective on what makes family businesses succeed and fail
* A framework to help you make good decisions together
* Step-by-step guidance on managing change within your business family
* Key questions about wealth, unique to family businesses, that you can't afford to ignore
* Assessments to help you determine where you are—and where you want to go
* Stories of real companies, from Marchesi Antinori to Radio Flyer
* Chapter summaries you can use to reinforce what you've learned

Keep this comprehensive guide with you to help you build, grow, and position your family business to thrive across generations. HBR Handbooks provide ambitious professionals with the frameworks, advice, and tools they need to excel in their careers. With step-by-step guidance, time-honed best practices, and real-life stories, each comprehensive volume helps you to stand out from the pack—whatever your role.

If approximately 70 percent of all businesses are family businesses, and two out of three don't survive to the next generation, what can you do to make sure your business will survive and thrive? 

"Dirty Little Secrets of Family Business" comes clean with much-needed info on nitty-gritty issues, such as entitlement, letting employees (even family members) go when they just aren't working out, compensation, including your kids in the business (when to bring them in, help them move up, and prep them to take over), shareholder agreements, selecting the next leader, deciding whether to keep the business or sell it, exit strategies for outgoing leaders, money matters, succession planning, communication, conflict resolution, establishing an effective board, and transitioning to the next generation. Readers can apply the numerous ideas and tips in this engaging guide to address any family business situation. 

Written for current and next-generation owners and utilizing multiple, firsthand stories of family business dos and don'ts, "Dirty Little Secrets of Family Business" gives you the top success strategies that you can use to build a better functioning family business. Acknowledging that every family is unique and a cookie-cutter approach is not the answer, experienced family business consultant Henry Hutcheson presents a deeper look at the underlying mechanics of what makes a family business work.

John L. Ward is a leading world expert on the family business. In this book he brings together a vast amount of experience to show the, 'best practices' of the most successful and long-lasting families in business. He provides a framework of five insights and four principles in which to position his 50 lessons for family businesses. This is the most comprehensive book on sustaining the family business and contains international examples and cases and essential tools and checklists of best practice.

Whether you are an experienced family business or family office executive, board member, owner, or next-generation family member, George Isaac has written the definitive handbook on the challenges of managing a multi-generational family enterprise. 5-star "Amazon's #1 New Release" rated book* discusses best practices for all of the key issues associated with family businesses.

As a professional consultant, board member, speaker, and prior third-generation CEO, Isaac has been helping families start, build, transition, and maintain their enterprises for more than forty years. Using real-world experiential examples full of case studies, best practices, suggested operating policies, and implementation checklists, Isaac introduces

• Seven essential initiatives for business survival and growth
• Techniques to navigate family dynamics and prevent and manage conflict
• Strategies for establishing effective family and business governance
• A road map to forming and executing a workable (and living) succession plan
• Practical approaches to multigenerational family and business wealth management
• Training on understanding and analyzing financial statements for non-financially oriented family members.
• Tips for preparing the next generation for success, in or outside of the family business.

Avoid the pitfalls and traps that keep most family businesses from surviving past the current generation. Build a multigenerational family business legacy that lasts with this indispensable guide.

Many owners of family businesses dream of passing the torch to their next generation, but only about thirty percent will realize that goal. In "Secrets to Succession", family business owner Gerard Gust opens the door to reveal how he and his father dodged the grim statistics to make sure their company would survive the transition. The key was finding a way to lead, govern, and work together as the lines between parent and child, boss and employee, were blurred, stressed, and tested. After working in his family business for almost twenty years, Gust gained an in-depth look at the dynamics of family relationships and the succession process. That knowledge inspired him to develop a strategy called the PIE method that shows exiting owner and successor how to increase their chances of a successful transition. As Gust journeys through that process, from challenge and setback to achievement and success, he reflects on his own experience with humour and honesty. Throughout he offers practical advice to help current owners and successors navigate the struggles that family businesses face during a transition. "Secrets to Succession" is an indispensable guide to the inner workings of a successful family business transition from beginning to end.