• Season 1 Trailer
    Mar 26 2024
    1 min
  • Episode 5: Episode 5: Brothers in the Vineyard: Growing Fraiche Wine Group
    Jul 26 2024
    Welcome to Episode Five of the Owner’s Box by WashU Olin’s Koch Center for Family Enterprise. This week, we learn from Michael and John Kennedy on how they have worked together as siblings and a broader family to build out Fraiche Wine Group.
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    49 mins
  • Tactics from the Owner's Box: The Four Critical Questions of Ownership
    Jul 11 2024
    In today’s tactics from the Owner’s Box, we introduce the four critical questions for strategic owners – questions of What, How, When, and perhaps most importantly, Why.
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    7 mins
  • Episode 4: Creativity and Continuity with Stuart Weitzman
    Jun 27 2024
    The brand is a celebrity favorite no matter the occasion. Lorde. Gigi Hadid, Jessica Alba, Blake Lively, Selena Gomez, the list goes on. Today's episode looks at how Stuart Weitzman built his company and what we can learn about owner strategy from the various twists and turns of his brand's evolution over time. This is ultimately Stuart Weitzman's gift to us. There is hard won wisdom gained by an entrepreneur who has gone through all these different shifts in and around the owner's box.
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    29 mins
  • Tactics from the Owner's Box: The Psychology of Legacy
    Jun 13 2024
    Today on “Tactics from The Owner’s Box,” we explore the meaning of legacy and how it plays into the design of a business and philanthropy over time.
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    6 mins
  • Episode 3: The Beautiful Game
    May 30 2024
    Today we discuss how a multi-generational family enterprise has brought soccer back to St. Louis, and their hopes and plan to make an impact far beyond the pitch. Special Guests: Andrew C. Taylor, Carolyn Kindle, Jason Thein, Lee Broughton, and Neal Richardson.
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    34 mins
  • Tactics from the Owner’s Box: Social Discount
    May 9 2024
    In the business world, you hear a lot about why and how a business plans to balance social and business good. Ultimately, how much overlap you see between the financial maximization of returns and the non-financial drivers of business likely shapes what you see as possible. So, how might one think about this relationship, and can we bring rigor to the assessment? Explore this question and more with host, Peter Boumgarden, Professor and Director of the Koch Center for Family Enterprise in our latest mini-session focused on tactics from "The Owner’s Box."
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    9 mins
  • Episode 2: Creative Control with Jeremy King
    Apr 25 2024
    Today, we explore the tension between commercial and creative objectives, and what we can learn from a culinary entrepreneur preparing for his third act. Does the owner's box need a creative tension between commerce and creativity? Without the constraints of commerce, the creative impulse can easily become unbounded from market potential. But lacking imagination, do we merely replicate previous successes, with all restaurants looking like carbon copies of surefire but vanilla hits, and all films becoming superhero replicas? Tune in to hear Jeremy King talk this through in his experience transforming the London restaurant scene.
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    37 mins