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How to Build and Sustain a Successful, Enduring Enterprise

This comprehensive handbook brings you sophisticated guidance and practical advice from family business experts Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer. Based on their decades-long experience working closely with a wide range of family businesses around the world, the authors present proven methods and approaches.

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 address the myriad decisions facing your family business including how to make good decisions together

Step-by-step guidance to help you understand what type of family business you own, define success on your own terms, communicate effectively, manage conflict, prepare for changes within your business family, and transition to the next generation

Key questions about wealth, unique to family businesses, that you can't afford not to ask yourself and your family

Exercises and assessments to help you determine where you are and where you want to go

Stories of real families and real companies, from Radio Flyer to Sierra Nevada Brewing Company

The HBR Family Business Handbook addresses these issues and more. Keep this guide with you to help you build, grow, and sustain your family business--and your business family--for years, and generations, to come.