Family Councils

Playbook for success

At women- and minority-owned HJI Supply Chain Solutions Inc., faith, family values, community service — and sports — inform every decision.

Strategies for squashing squabbles

Family-owned businesses have so many awesome upsides — superior value creation over time, a shared purpose and lots of time spent with those closest...

Of the family, by the family, for the family

The power of representative family governance.

When a Family Council Loses Its Way

It is quite a milestone when a family sets up a family council. Its presence signals that the family has placed non-financial activities — personal...

A no-nonsense guide to key family documents

When the Caladan family gathered for its biannual shareholder meeting, there were a number of significant topics to discuss. The most important was a clarification...