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Prioritize your risk strategies for 2022 and beyond with this 17th edition of the Global Risks Report, which explores the areas that your organization should safeguard against and capitalize on as part of your overall resiliency plan. The insights and predictions are drawn from a community of 950 experts and leaders around the world. The areas of f...

If you own a closely held business, choosing how and when to exit your business is a critical part of the planning. If one of your goals involves benefiting charity, you might consider the use of a charitable remainder trust (CRT). It’s also an option that can help achieve other business exit goals and reduce your overall tax payment.

When it comes to the sale of transfer of your business, preparation for it will be key in ensuring that it’s a successful transition. Six best practices toward that end will help guide you through the journey. Further, it helps lay the groundwork for estate planning.

With OSHA releasing and publishing the Emergency Temporary Standard (the “ETS”) on November 4, 2021, there are new vaccine guidelines and mandates for employers to follow. In this eBook, we address the “vaccinate or test” program set forth in the ETS and provide samples and templates on mandatory vaccination policy, reasonab...

In today’s workplace environment, organizations face heightened challenges for employee recruitment, retention, wellbeing, and engagement. Understanding how to attract new employees, while keeping and supporting your current workforce is critical to an organization’s ongoing success. It starts with having a sense of urgency, empathy, be...

While 2021 revealed the resiliency of the tech industry and inspired innovation amid spikes in demand, the tech landscape in 2022 will be shaped by the confluence of various factors. From impending tax changes to a booming deal environment to supply chain shortages and more, the tech industry is in for a memorable 2022. Explore the seven technology...

Adoption of an ESG strategy may begin as a reactive response to regulatory, investor, employee, or other stakeholder pressures, but that shouldn’t be where it ends. To reorient business strategy from shareholder to stakeholder and from short-term to long-term value creation, organizations need to tackle the primary actions to take them there....

Individual employees can be an organization’s most valuable asset or their most significant risk. While each company and family offices will have different challenges and needs, there are best practices that can be implemented to ensure employees are properly recruited, vetted, hired, retained, and terminated. By taking the necessary steps, y...

The big wealth transition is now underway, with ownership of more than 60% of family enterprise expected to be handed off within the next decade. With the input of business owners and Family Enterprise Advisors, this report takes an in-depth look at transition planning and how family business leaders can prepare their family, as well as their busin...

Each family’s legacy is as unique as the family itself. It can be a bloodline, a name, heirlooms, a legal entity or family stories, myths, and artifacts. In this fourth and final report in the series on family business succession, key insights are shared on the important role that legacies play in uniting the core purpose of the business with the f...

Choosing the right governance practices in a family business is a critical ingredient for its long-term sustainability. This report—the third in a series of four on family business succession—examines the many layers of family and business governance systems and mechanisms and the ways in which the evolving principles of good governance c...

Emerging from the shadows is the increasing number of women in the workforce, and it marks one of the most significant changes in economies throughout the world in the last 40 years. This report—the second in a series of four on family business succession—takes an up-close look at the demographic shifts that are changing the role of women in f...

There is an evolution taking place in the world of succession that is aligning the overall purpose of the family business with the motivation and beliefs of NextGen leaders. This report—the first in a series of four on family business succession—explores the courage to choose the right successor at the right time and provides the six key consi...

Are family businesses really more resilient, agile, and adaptable than other business types? And, if so, have they been able to tackle the challenges of COVID-19 better than most and, perhaps, emerged even stronger? In this report learn how family businesses across the world are mastering a comeback in their businesses and triumphing over COVID-19 ...

Protect your organization against cybersecurity. Be cyber smart and learn more about combatting ransomware in the time of COVID-19, how cybersecurity continues to be a top issue for retirement plans, and how to assess the gaps in your cyber coverage and reduce your exposure.