Women in Family Business
Despite great progress in recent years, the number of women occupying top tier leadership roles in business is disproportionately small. According to the Pew Research Center, women currently hold only 4.6% of executive positions at S&P 500 companies and make up 16.9% of Fortune 500 board members. Even though women fill 50% […]
Succession is likely to be the topic most frequently discussed in the family business context. It is found that the ideal recipe towards successful succession varies according to family mentality and business structures. While the word succession is typically associated to the passing of the business from father to son, […]
Interview with Right Bite founder Nathalie Haddad Nathalie Haddad was an in-demand dietitian who held one-on-one counseling sessions, conducted regular lectures at schools, and taught healthy cooking classes. Today, she runs a nutritional consultation and healthy food delivery company called Right Bite, which provides convenient and nutritious dining programs for […]
Interview with co-founder Aimee Changco Trendiness and sustainability are one at BaemBu, a clothing startup that produces eco-friendly t-shirts in the UAE. By using bamboo for material and adhering to the highest ethical standards, this newcomer to the clothing world is already looking to take the lead in sustainable fashion. In […]
Jumana Al Darwish was the embodiment of a successful modern professional. The Oxford graduate was the Head of Corporate Planning and Development at a government initiative that provided basic primary education to underprivileged children, and she had just welcomed a beautiful daughter into the world, named Ayla. But Jumana was […]
UAE-based, award-winning architect May Barber is passionate about creating beautiful things regardless of their material or scale. Her creative curiosity took her into fashion design followed by fashion buying and writing. Coupling her aesthetic eye with her entrepreneurial drive, May founded The cARTel, a fashion concept store that features wearable […]
Jewelry has always been in Susana Martins’ blood. Born and raised in northern Portugal in an area with a rich goldsmithing history, she trained as a goldsmith and stone-setter before pursuing a post-graduate diploma in design alongside gemology and diamond grading qualifications. Fast forward a few years, and today her […]
When María Dolores left her native Mexico in the 1980s, she took with her a grand passion for Mexican cooking. Settling down with her Swiss husband, María Dolores was so shocked at what passed for Mexican food in Switzerland, she felt compelled to start her own business. Since then it’s grown […]
Interview with Dani Saveker, Founder, Families in Business T. Saveker and Sons was founded in 1903 in Birmingham, England. A manufacturing company for shop fittings, the family-owned business faced many highs and lows over its hundred-year history. The Saveker family members, one generation at a time worked dutifully on their […]
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Interview with Dr. Alicja Hadrys-Nowak It is well documented that women face unique challenges in the business world – in both publicly owned as well as family owned companies. For the most part, existing research investigating the role of women in the family business sphere focuses solely on female family […]
Family businesses are often more socially conscious than their non-family business counterparts. They are more likely to hire people and less likely to lay them off, more likely to support their communities, and far more likely to be concerned with the long-term health of their communities. And they are not […]