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Merck's commitment to family governance

In a series of updates to our original story, we explore some of Merck's best practices in more detail. Our first instalment focuses on family governance structures – and how Merck has used these to cultivate (and sustain) unity and stability within the family...

MERCK: thinking in generations, not just in quarters

If you’re the Merck family, you leave nothing to chance. You prioritize planning the future. You invest in it. In simple terms, the Mercks have built and sustained a 13-generation legacy by taking the “Be Prepared” adage to a whole new level...

The Vaccine Billionaires of India

The Poonawalla family of India is making a dramatic impact on the global COVID-19 pandemic by becoming the world’s biggest manufacturer of vaccines...

Will family control of Samsung end because of estate taxes?

Samsung is a highly-diversified $400 billion conglomerate, rich in three generations of history. But now it’s possible the Lee family’s control may be coming to an end...

Challenges in the Samsung empire

Samsung is a highly-diversified $400 billion conglomerate, rich in three generations of history. But now it’s possible the Lee family’s control may be coming to an end...

Life at the world's largest toymaker

It might also surprise you to learn that Lego, the largest toymaker in the world by sales and profits, is family-owned. This is the story of the Kirk Kristiansen family of Denmark...

Zegna stability amidst market challenges

A recent article in the Financial Times highlighted an iconic Italian business family – Zegna, and it’s one we’re tracking closely…

Inside the Cargill family

How the largest privately-held U.S. company (by revenue) has managed to innovate, endure – and remain in family control…

Canada’s Reucassel family

How the International Group Inc. survived the deaths of not one but two family members who drove its strategy and vision…

The sweet taste of Ferrero’s success

The Italian family behind some of the world’s favourite candy products is now in its third generation…

Celebrating the McCain family

Here we celebrate one of Canada’s true entrepreneurial success stories, told from the vantage point of Wallace McCain’s eldest son, Scott McCain…

The inspiring story of Heineken

How Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken made the bold (and sudden) decision to step into her father’s shoes and run the family business…