Morten Bennedsen

Visiting Professor of Economics at INSEAD
The case study is about the Japanese carmaker Suzuki. The 100-year company was founded at the peak of Japan’s silk-production industry in the early 20th century. Michio Suzuki (1887-1982), a gifted inventor, started tinkering with weaving looms and in 1920 founded the Suzuki Loom Manufacturing Company in the coastal village of Hamamatsu.

Published 19 Oct 2022

Reference 6765

Topic Family Business

Region Global

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The case is an example of how a family can control a large conglomerate – TECO Electric & Machinery, a Taiwanese engineering business – yet with almost no ownership stake.

Published 18 Oct 2022

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Topic Family Business

Region Asia

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The case covers the ongoing Wang family dispute over the inheritance of YC Wang, the billionaire founder of Formosa Plastics Group, one of Taiwan’s most prominent industrial conglomerates, who died in 2008 at the age of 91 without leaving a will.

Published 06 Oct 2021

Reference 6613

Topic Family Business

Industry Chemicals

Region Global

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On 30 August 2016, Margrethe Vestager, the European Commissioner for Competition, ordered Ireland to recover €13 billion in illegal state aid (plus interest) that Ireland was alleged to have granted Apple over a decade from 2003.

Published 11 Mar 2021

Reference 6664

Topic Economics & Finance

Region Europe

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The case covers the ongoing Wang family dispute over the inheritance of YC Wang, the billionaire founder of Formosa Plastics Group, one of Taiwan’s most prominent industrial conglomerates, who died in 2008 at the age of 91 without leaving a will.

Published 19 Feb 2021

Reference 6613

Topic Family Business

Industry Chemicals

Region Global

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This is a collection of 40 profiles of long-lived family firms representing all but eight members of the Hénokiens, a French association whose 48 members have survived for more than two centuries. Of the 40 members featured in this collection, the oldest is a hostel in Japan named Hoshi Ryokan, which has been in business for 1,300 years and has been operated by same family for 46 generations.

Published 27 May 2019

Reference 6503

Topic Family Business

Region Global

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This two-part case collection presents the profiles of 39 family-run firms that are 'Hénokiens', a French association whose members have survived for more than two centuries. The oldest member, a hostel in Japan named Hoshi Ryokan, has been in business for 1,300 years over 46 generations.

Published 05 Apr 2019

Reference 6245

Topic Family Business

Region Global

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The case accounts for the gender pay gap in companies and industries around the world. In Europe, women earn on average 84 cents per hour for every euro men make. In the United States, they earn between 80 and 82 cents per hour for every dollar made by a man. The gap widens further after women have children.

Published 30 Jul 2018

Reference 6406

Topic Leadership & Organisations

Industry Human Resources Public Policy

Region Global

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Family-owned firm Brunata, an engineering business and major player in Denmark’s heat consumption market, faces a leadership crisis after the retirement of its charismatic founder. Although his four children have worked in the company, none ultimately have the right stuff to lead, notably the eldest son who is removed by his father three years after taking over the top job.

Published 30 Jul 2018

Reference 6213

Topic Family Business

Industry Building Materials Machinery

Region Europe

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Family-owned firm Brunata, an engineering business and major player in Denmark’s heat consumption market, faces a leadership crisis after the retirement of its charismatic founder. Although his four children have worked in the company, none ultimately have the right stuff to lead, notably the eldest son who is removed by his father three years after taking over the top job.

Published 30 Jul 2018

Reference 6213

Topic Family Business

Industry Building Materials Machinery

Region Europe

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The Governance of Family Firms, Corporate Governance, Private Equity, Privatisation, Lobbyism and Corruption, Contract Theory