Crucial role of governance in African family businesses: Lessons from the German Mittelstand
Mutendi explores the importance of governance in African family businesses.
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Ensuring the longevity of African family businesses: The critical role of governance and estate planning
Mutendi outlines the critical role of governance and estate planning in family enterprises.
The power of media and the untold stories of African family businesses
Mutendi believes that the success stories of Africa’s leading family businesses could make for fascinating cinema.
Reviving ancient traditions: How African family businesses are harnessing cultural roots and trade routes to thrive under ACFTA
Mutendi offers some key factors to consider when developing a model framework for African family businesses in line with the ACFTA.
African wealth management firms need to catch up to global trends
Mutendi argues that African wealth managers need to catch up to their international peers.
Contacting African Family Offices, VCs, and Fundraising 101
Mutendi offers tips and ideas on how VC funds can approach family offices.
Exit strategies for family businesses
Exit strategies include acquisition, merger, IPO, cash cow, selling to a friend, or shutting down operations.
The ‘family’ in family business
Simply put, one of the keys to the success of a big business and the most integral part of the business is the family.
Types of family businesses: Steward?
Succession in the Steward family business type comes with little conflict.
Types of family businesses: Eternus?
The Eternus family business, like the James Bond type, is led by an authoritarian family leader.
Types of family businesses: James Bond?
In the James Bond family business type, the sole family member in the business is the founder.
Family is the elephant in the room
The biggest challenges for family businesses in Africa have to do with the family system and not with the business system.
Opportunists or strategists? What will bring more African family businesses to the forefront?
The continent’s future is influenced by those who hold the wealth and resources — and their motives.
Africa, cryptocurrency, and the future
Several governments are still contemplating whether it should even be legalized.
Healthcare investment as a future focus
The past three years have had a massive global impact, in which the healthcare industry has become the center of all focus.