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Managing for the long run : lessons in competitive advantage from great family businesses

Title
Managing for the long run : lessons in competitive advantage from great family businesses / Danny Miller, Isabelle Le Breton-Miller.
Author
Miller, Danny.
Publication
Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, [2005], ©2005.

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Additional Authors
Le Breton-Miller, Isabelle.
Description
x, 310 pages; 24 cm
Summary
"In Managing for the Long Run, Danny Miller and Isabelle Le Breton-Miller argue that the same attributes that have long been vilified as weaknesses of family businesses - stable strategies, clan cultures, lifetime tenures - have actually created formidable competitive advantages for many of these firms. The authors have identified more than forty large, family-controlled businesses that not only dominated their markets for twenty to one-hundred-plus years but did so by defying most aspects of modern management practice." "Based on an in-depth, multiyear research study, Managing for the Long Run draws from the experiences of family-run firms - including Hallmark, Timken, L. L. Bean, the New York Times Company, and IKEA - to reveal four unorthodox business priorities that any firm, family or not, can use to drive successful strategies."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-295) and index.
Contents
Introduction : in search of long-term winners -- 1. What distinguishes great family businesses? -- 2. Potent priorities at the great family-controlled businesses -- 3. Brand builders -- 4. Craftsmen -- 5. Operators -- 6. Innovators -- 7. Deal makers -- 8. When family-controlled businesses stumble -- 9. Managing for the long run -- App. A. Description of the research -- App. B. Assessment grid and checklist.
ISBN
1591394155
LCCN
2004019789
OCLC
  • ocm56334265
  • SCSB-5160954
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries