Personal Life Crisis: How it can affect leadership in the Family Enterprise
Thanks to Steven Rolfe for this week’s edition about the importance of recognizing the impacts that a family business leader’s personal life crisis can have on the entire enterprise. In his article, Steven shares two examples and his reflections for practitioners to consider when their clients are confronted with such a scenario.
Five Sisters and Two Executors: A case study
Thanks to Vijay Sathe, Alfredo Enrione, Donna Finley for this week’s edition, which is a case study about how five sisters, who suddenly and unexpectedly inherited their father’s businesses, and how they dealt with the influence of two executors to reach harmonious ownership of the family enterprise.
From the Managing Editor: Moving forward in 2021
As we embark upon a new year for FFI Practitioner, we are pleased to share a letter about the year ahead from our Managing Editor, Dan Frosh.
FFI Practitioner: Most Popular Articles of 2020
As 2020 comes to a close, you can take a look back at the FFI Practitioner “year that was” by going to www.ffipractitioner.org — where you will find all 50 issues.
Family Philanthropy and Donor-Advised Funds: A multi-generational approach to giving
In this week’s edition of FFI Practitioner, author John Canady examines how donor-advised funds (DAFs) can provide enterprising families an alternative to establishing a family foundation to accomplish their philanthropic objectives.
Ownership Strategy: The foundation of every family business
Thank you to FFI Fellow Ed van de Vijver for this week’s article on the importance of developing a family enterprise ownership strategy that is aligned with the family financiers’ objectives.
Learn to Live Together, Separate, or Continue in Conflict?
Thanks to Javier Macías, a member of the FFI Iberoamérica Virtual Study Group, for this article exploring three options available to consultants working with clients experiencing chronic conflict.
Kathryn McCarthy receives FFI Award
This week’s edition of FFI Practitioner concludes our series of podcasts featuring interviews with the 2020 FFI Achievement Award recipients.
Successful Transgenerational Entrepreneurship Practices (STEP) Project receives FFI Award
This week’s edition of FFI Practitioner continues our series of podcast interviews with the recipients of the 2020 FFI Achievement Awards by featuring this year’s International Award recipient, the Successful Transgenerational Entrepreneurship Practices (STEP) Project.
Andrew Hier receives FFI Award
In this week’s edition, we are pleased to continue our series of podcasts featuring interviews with the 2020 FFI Achievement Award recipients. In this week’s podcast, Andrew Hier, the recipient of the Interdisciplinary Award, reflects on the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to family enterprise advising and how his own background as an attorney has contributed to his current advisory skills.
Rania Labaki receives FFI Award
This week, FFI Practitioner is pleased to introduce a series of podcasts featuring interviews with the 2020 FFI Achievement Award recipients.
The Two Pillars of Governance in Family Enterprises: A straightforward understanding of complex systems
This week’s edition kicks off a series of articles by presenters at the virtual 2020 FFI Global Conference, October 26-28.
Advancing Your Family Enterprise Professional Skills
So you want to be a family enterprise professional, or you are thinking about it. Either way, if you decide to join this growing professional community, here are some things you might want to know.
Toolkit for Family Enterprise Advisers
A toolkit for advisors and consultants working with family enterprise clients. In these resources you will learn more about contracting, recognizing your own biases, strategies for conflict management and tools to assist family enterprises.
Travel Not Necessary
The annual FFI global conference was created to bring much-needed professional development resources to advisors and consultants, academics and researchers, and family enterprise members.
FFI Practitioner: Disruption and Adaptation: Selected articles
This week, we are pleased to share a curated selection of FFI Practitioner editions focusing on the impacts of disruption and adaptation on family enterprises. These articles can serve as examples and tools to incorporate into consulting and educational work with clients, particularly as the COVID-19 crisis continues.
2086 Society Requests Proposals on Two Topics
This issue of FFI Practitioner is pleased to present the 2086 Society’s requests for proposals (RFPs) for two applied research topics. Deadline for applications is September 15, 2020.
FFI Annual Global Conference: Something for everyone
The 2020 FFI annual global conference now has something for everyone – wherever you live, work, or can travel to or from! In response to the challenges presented by COVID-19, the FFI annual global conference is now a hybrid event – two days of virtual presentations and two days of in-person with no overlap in the four days.
FFI Practitioner: Most Popular Articles from the Second Quarter of 2020
We hope you’ve been enjoying the articles published in FFI Practitioner so far this year. This week, we’re pleased to share the most popular editions from Q2, which reflect the current challenges confronting family enterprises and their advisors in the time of the Covid-19 crisis.