Matt Allen, was raised in a family firm and has studied family business for decades.
The first was a young employee of the family firm, whom Gina soon divorced.
Mr Renato says people who join their family firm have to behave like a "role model".
In 2005, Mr. Rice founded and became the principal investor in Rice Energy, a family firm.
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These might include inherited fortunes (as in Ms Radmacher's case), a family firm or a prized possession.
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Meanwhile in Kilrea, a family firm has been looking for new ways to make the business recession-proof.
He tells me that, when he was 18, he did not want to inherit the family firm either.
He had worked briefly in the family firm, done some journalism and tried his hand as an actor.
How did a family firm in a rural area best known for producing fine wines like Barolo become a world-beater?
Knut and his brother steered the family firm through the 1920s, when Sweden was badly hit by a global recession.
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He cites the case of a highly-qualified young IT worker who was clearly the best candidate to join a family firm.
More shocking was that David-Weill gave Wasserstein free reign over the family firm, with nothing but a veto to block the IPO.
It describes, for example, the travails of setting up a new business (Cirrus, a family firm in Minnesota that makes small aeroplanes).
Mr Racamier was at first reluctant to take over the family firm.
There had been some financial difficulties for his family firm Haymarket Publishing - but the company has turned around and he's back in again.
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Michele Bertazzon's family firm, which specialises in traditional Venetian carousels with horses and carriages, and makes all its components in-house, is taking this approach.
Mr Bird's father, Vere Bird, dominated local politics, apart from one five-year break, from 1951 to 1994, when his son took over the family firm.
Although averse to commerce, Gerald proved to be a first-rate businessman when he went back to save the family firm, Mark Cross, from liquidation during the Depression.
Gayman, who had worked as a developer in the Bay Area during the tail end of the dot-com era before rejoining the family firm, spotted an opportunity.
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But after Alpha teamed up with his family firm in early 2010, Mr. Rice's BlackRock fund acquired another 3 million shares, topping out at 9% of assets.
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Even if Mr Singh now favours the pursuit of freer trade, Sonia Gandhi, boss of the Congress family firm, with its roots in the countryside, may well overrule him.
Had he stayed in Austria, he would have found it difficult to scrape a living as an artist, and was disinclined to join the family firm of textile manufacturers.
Into a new family firm focused on Latin America, Bronfman is putting a bit of his money, a small amount of time and whatever access is necessary to his well-placed network.
Hubert Burda Media, a family firm, has done similarly.
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He's a thoughtful man of 51 with a more than routine feeling of responsibility for the onetime family firm that was founded by his great-great grandfather in Somerville, Mass. 126 years ago.
Hugely ambitious, he modelled the firm on two Italian giants: Fiat, because it was a family firm that had grown huge from a strong domestic base, and Olivetti, for its technological innovation.
For example, the listed PT Visi Media Asia (known as Viva), in which his family firm is a shareholder and he is president director, will also create a new sports channel called Sports One.
Rolf W. Schnyder had acquired the family firm Ulysse Nardin in 1983, and since that time held the role of president and CEO at the helm of the manufacturer with its wealth of tradition.
The Whitty family firm went out of business in the 1830s, but the tradition was revived in the town in 1937, when Harry Dutfield, the son of a Glasgow carpet designer, founded the current company.
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