Jul 7, 2020 | Family Business Survey, Watch & Listen
Watch Video Below. A presentation from Family Business Strategy Week. COVID-19 required many family firms to change the way they do business, from checking employees’ temperatures before each shift to serving an entirely new market. What success factors enabled them...
Jul 6, 2020 | COVID-19, Family Businesses
After 132 years in business, you learn how to adapt. So when COVID-19 forced Montgomery’s to cancel its annual four-day auditorium sale in Madison, the furniture retailer figured out how to sell the merchandise anyway. Thanks to Facebook, the store started selling its...
Jun 23, 2020 | COVID-19, Family Businesses, FEUSA
Our company was founded by my grandpa in 1953 as Seneca Sawmill. We are now owned by my mother and my two aunts. We have grown over the years and we now have 168,000 acres of timberlands that we manage sustainably (we have 92% more timber on that land than we had 25...
Jun 16, 2020 | COVID-19, Family Business Survey, Family Businesses, FEUSA, Presentation
Family Enterprise USA’s 2020 survey sheds light on factors that family business owners see as obstacles to growth. Legislators must know what is important to family business owners — what helps or hurts them when it comes to operating their businesses and creating...
Jun 12, 2020 | Family Business Survey, Family Businesses, FEUSA, Presentation
Plan to Attend: A Conversation with FEUSA’s President/CEO Pat Soldano and the Drucker School’s Director of the Family Business Institute Kathleen Fariss June 25, 2020 2 p.m. ET | 11 a.m. PT 45 minutes The COVID-19 crisis represents many immediate and...
Jun 11, 2020 | Family Business Survey, Family Businesses, FEUSA, Watch & Listen
The COVID-19 crisis represents many immediate and long-term concerns for family businesses. Using survey data from two recent studies, we will explore the 2020 Family Enterprise USA Owners Survey, as well as more recent ownership intel collected by Banyan Global. The...
Jun 9, 2020 | COVID-19, Family Businesses, FEUSA, Presentation
Plan to Attend: COVID-19 required many family firms to change the way they do business, from checking employees’ temperatures before each shift to serving an entirely new market. What success factors enabled them to adapt, and will the changes be permanent? Friday,...
Jun 2, 2020 | Family Business Survey, Family Businesses, FEUSA, Watch & Listen
Family business owners want lower taxes, less regulation Family Enterprise USA’s 2020 survey shed light on factors that family business owners see as obstacles to growth. By Patricia M. Soldano, President Family Enterprise USA Legislators must know what is important...
Jun 2, 2020 | COVID-19, FEUSA, In The News
For the first time since early 2020, the dominant topic in the American policy debate is not the COVID-19 pandemic. With national attention consumed by protests, riots and the state of race relations in the United States, efforts continue in Washington to stabilize...
Jun 1, 2020 | Family Business Survey, Family Businesses, FEUSA, In The News
The 2020 FEUSA Survey was conducted between January 31st and April 24th during the global Coronavirus pandemic. As of mid-March much of the United States was under some form of stay-at-home order and survey responses reflect concerns as a result of this unexpected...
