Displaying 6 items of The Owner's Box @WashU Olin with the tag "family business".
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S3: E5: Balancing Ambition in a Culinary Portfolio with Nina Compton
January 27th, 2026 | 39 mins 38 secs
family business, james beard award, new orleans, nina compton, restaurant, st. lucia, top chef
Today we have an opportunity to chat with my friend, Chef Nina Compton, the owner of the acclaimed Compère Lapin in New Orleans. Nina's journey from cooking Christmas dinner for her family in St. Lucia to competing on Top Chef and winning the James Beard Award for Best Chef: South is remarkable. But what makes her story particularly interesting from an ownership lens is that she and her husband, Larry, have thoughtfully built a portfolio of projects, all while trying to live a life worth living. On today’s episode, Balancing Ambition in a Culinary Portfolio with Nina Compton.
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S3: E4: New Growth from Deep Roots with Tad & Ben Edwards
December 23rd, 2025 | Season 3 | 43 mins
a.g. edwards, brokerage firm, business, family business, father, financial services, private, public, son, st. louis
Today’s guests are a father-son duo who have been on a fascinating journey of growing up with the family business, exiting that chapter, and deciding to start a new one. Tad Edwards was part of a multi-generational family business in the financial services industry, A.G. Edwards, that was ultimately acquired by Wachovia and then Wells Fargo. Tad took the pen on the next chapter of the family legacy by starting the firm Benjamin F. Edwards, and is now joined in the business by his son, Ben. On today’s episode, New Growth from Deep Roots with Tad and Ben Edwards of Benjamin F. Edwards.
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Tactics from the Owner's Box: The Family Mission Statement
December 11th, 2025 | 8 mins 10 secs
family, family business, mission statements, multi-generational, parenting, philanthropy, wall street journal
In October, Juliet Chung of the Wall Street Journal wrote a piece titled "Wealthy Families Are Writing Mission Statements to Avoid Fights, Lost Fortunes." If no family – happy or unhappy– is simple, what does it mean for a family to be intentional? Today on the Owner's Box, the power and limitations of a family mission statement, and what lessons are worth mining from multi-generational family business owners.
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Tactics from the Owner's Box: Ownership Overhaul at OpenAI
November 6th, 2025 | Season 3 | 7 mins 48 secs
ai, data, family business, openai, ownership
OpenAI's ownership redesign has the potential to shape how the technology on our screens and in our pockets affects our economy and our society. Can they deliver benefit to the public and profit to the few at the same time?
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S2: E5: Stewarding Potential with Katie Ford
March 13th, 2025 | Season 2 | 34 mins 37 secs
art, family business, ford models, human trafficking, investments, modeling, travel
In today’s episode, we learn from Katie Ford all about how one company shaped the modeling business, and what that means for the person holding the reins.
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Episode 6: All That We Bring to the Table with Cindi Bigelow
August 27th, 2024 | Season 1 | 43 mins 52 secs
bigelow tea, family business, female, leadership, tea
For those of you playing along at home.... while this season has highlighted a number of different voices, there is at least one that is characteristically missing -- that of a female owner taking over leadership of their family business. Our discussion with Carolyn Kindle at St. Louis CITY SC hit on pieces of this work, but this was in the context of starting something new -- a soccer club in the MLS. There is something different about stewarding something that already exists. How do you lead that well? What does it mean to own something from a deep understanding of who you are. And so with that, we queue up, Cindi Bigelow of Bigelow Tea.