Facing inheritance tax hikes, family firms are fighting to protect their legacy. At this year’s Family Office Conference, Steve Rigby discussed with Rhian-Anwen Hamill the resilience and importance of family businesses in the UK’s economic landscape. Explore the impacts and strategies these enterprises are employing to navigate this new fiscal reality. “We’re 50 years old […]
Concern about potential damage to agriculture in the UK triggered by changes to Inheritance Tax rules in the budget has overshadowed the potential damage to the wider family business sector. Perhaps this shouldn’t be a surprise. Family businesses have always been quiet contributors to economies around the world, including the UK’s. This makes them easy […]
Family businesses have more in common than they often realise. Rupert Merson, Adjunct Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at London Business School and family business expert explores the sources of unhappiness family-owned companies face time and time again in his latest blog. ‘All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own […]
When teaching entrepreneurship, we focus attention on the trials and tribulations attendant on starting a business. But starting a business is only the start of the trial. For London Business School entrepreneurs who have been able to satisfactorily answer Hamlet’s more famous existential question regarding their new businesses, the more difficult questions come afterwards and […]