Family Business Reports Samples For Students

Introduction

Carvajal S.A is a family business which was founded on the 29th October 1904 and is located in Cali, in Columbia. The business was founded by a man by the name Emmanuel together with two of his eldest sons. The business began as a printing and publishing business. It has since expanded into the sale of notebooks, yellow pages and office furniture even outside the country. With the emergence of new consumer trends such as the internet, the business is faced with a lot of competition such as the availability of the services provided by the business over the ...

Introduction

A family business is a profit-making entity that entails the significant roles of decision making, ownership, and leadership of the business being undertaken by several generations of a family. For a firm to be considered as a family business, the multigenerational element, and the unique family is fundamental (Carlock, Kets de Vries, and Florent-Treacy 12). Family businesses vary from size to industry; there are corner shops with a history of family ownership and leadership and similarly publicly listed multinationals, which share a similar foundation (Carlock, Kets de Vries, and Forest-Treacy 17). Internationally, there are numerous examples of family-owned businesses; ...

The Health of the Family Business

Introduction
JCDecaux Group is a multinational company based in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris in France. The company was established in 1964 by Jean-Francois Decaux to offer bus stop advertising systems, billboards, public bicycle rental services, and street furniture (Jcdecaux.com, 2016). Currently, the company is the best outdoor advertising company in the world with annual revenues of more than 2.8 billion Euros. Its commitment is to deliver quality outdoor advertising services to its clients as well as providing first class public services to its customers around the world. The JCDecaux Group core values are innovation, quality, design, sustainable development and trustworthiness in ...

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Summary 3

Introduction 4
Gilbane Building Company 5
Business Model Canvas Analysis 6
Recommendation 12
Conclusion 12

Bibliography 13

Executive Summary
This report presents briefly about the health of the family business. The company chosen for analysis is Gilbane Building Company, a 140 year old family managed firm with 2400 employees and a revenue of $3.5 billion. The company is in construction business and is very stable financially and in meeting customer expectations. The analysis is dome with the help of a tool developed by Alexander Osterwalde and Ives Pigneur called Business model generation. The model has nine ...

Introduction

Carvajal, S.A is a family-owned holding company that provides printing-related and other products and services to both the Latin America and outside markets. The company had seven other subsidiary companies.It had grown into a leading company in sectors that included yellow pages, notebooks and textbooks, and office furniture. It also funded the family’s efforts of helping the needy in the community.
Alberto Carvajal and Mary Alice Crump were worried about the financial returns and the growth of the company. Alberto, 49 years old, was chairman of Carvajal’s board. Mary, 56, was a member of the holding company ...

Introduction

When many family businesses are founded, they are run by succeeding generation of the founding family. Family members occupy important position in the organizational hierarchy. Employees from outside the family are at times used in the organization. However, this is dependent on the unavailability or unwillingness of a family member to occupy the position. The organizational structure of family businesses may vary depending of the type of business entity and how its growth reflects on size. This survey was carried out of owners of four family businesses. The questionnaire used was designed to explore various aspects of family businesses. It ...

Introduction

The Chelmsford Hotel is the small family oriented hotel located in Melbourne. This hotel is developed by the two brothers Jeff and Chad Mitchell. This business has grown with the interest of the owners in work and efforts. The hotel consists of 163 guestrooms and offer valet parking services, housekeeping and manages maintenance and administrative tasks. The Garden terrace restaurant is also part of their service in which they offer to dine, room service, catering service and organization of events. In the hotel, there are around 130 to 140 employees while, for the restaurant around 35 more employees are ...

John Wyse

Entrepreneural Psychology
European School of Economics
What motivates Entrepreneurs?
Introduction
I have chosen this topic because I was curious to know what actually is behind the mind of entrepreneurs. What is it that leads them to be leaders in the world? What made Mark Zuckerberg create a thing called Facebook which people are crazy of and have actually integrated it in their lifestyles? In order to answer all my queries, I carried out a short research on the motivational factors and the driving forces that actually lead entrepreneurs to a totally new world of innovation.
It is ...

Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning

Introduction

In today’s competitive and dynamic environment it is quite essential for businesses to adopt coherent business strategies and planning tools to get the most reliable, useful, timely, accurate, and relevant information. Such information provides with the opportunity to improve strategic decision-making and enjoy competitive advantage over competitors. Businesses that have such intentions always believe in having effective strategic plan, which is defined as the course of actions to accomplish various broad objectives of an organization. Strategic plan is made at the corporate level of hierarchy in any organization where many important decisions such as objectives of ...

Introduction

Six sigma strategies are the methods and tools employed for process improvement. It was first developed by Motorola in 1985. It evolved over the years and currently used in different sectors of the economy such as major multinational organizations. Tomkins define it as a program aimed at near elimination of defects from every product. It boosts the profitability, increases the market share and improves customer satisfaction. Through statistical tools, it can lead to breakthrough quantum gains in quality of the processes of an organization. Six Sigma focuses on quality improvement of the process outputs, through identification and removal of the ...