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<p>Emulating the Success Strategies of Enduring Family Businesses</p> <p>Fidelity, Hallmark, Michelin, and Wal-Mart are renowned industry powerhouses with long leadership track records. Yet these celebrated companies are united by another factor not generally equated with competitive success: They are all family-controlled businesses.</p> <p>While many view the hallmarks of family businesses-stable strategies, clan cultures, and unencumbered family ownership-as weaknesses, Danny Miller and Isabelle Le Breton-Miller argue that it is these very characteristics that create formidable competitive advantages for many such firms.</p> <p><i>Managing for the Long Run</i> draws from a worldwide study of enduring, family-run organizations-including Cargill, Timken, L.L. Bean, The New York Times, and IKEA-to reveal their unconventional success strategies and how these strategies can be adopted and applied in any organization. Miller and Le Breton-Miller show how four driving passions of family-run firms-command, continuity, community, and connection-give rise to a set of practices that defy modern management thinking yet ensure a company's long term competitive advantage.</p> <p>Outlining how

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Author

Danny Miller; Isabelle Le Breton-Miller

Publisher

Harvard Business Review Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781591394150

Category

business

Subjects

Management, Business, Economics

Rating

5 / 5 (7 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14