Family-owned companies - Topics

A foundation holding a controlling stake creates an ownership category of one Board seats a family reserves for itself in a family-owned company's articles When a family-owned company adds independent directors to satisfy its lenders Audit and nomination committees at a family-owned company staffed mostly by relatives What actually goes into a family constitution at a family-owned company Family councils in a family-owned company: who writes the rules for the next generation Family CEO vs professional CEO: what the evidence says about performance Board seats reserved for the family: governance cost or stabilizing force Hiring a professional CEO into a family-owned company and the powers withheld from them Cross-shareholding and pyramid structures in family conglomerates Family-owned companies that listed and kept the founding family as the largest holder The family office: running a holding company after the operating business is sold Setting dividends at a family-owned company so passive relatives do not revolt Activist investors versus family control: who wins the proxy fight Shareholder agreements and buy-sell clauses in closely held firms Dividend policy in a family-controlled listed firm: family income vs reinvestment A founder of a family-owned company who still signs off on every hire above manager level Why professional managers quit family-owned companies within two years Inheritance tax and control: passing a listed stake to the next generation Dual-class shares: how family founders keep control after the IPO When a family-controlled company goes public: the first three years