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.
Congratulations to the FFI 2020 Award Recipients
Congratulations to the FFI 2020 Academic, Family Business Review, and Achievement Award Recipients
Professionalizing the Business Family: The Five Pillars of Competent, Committed, and Sustainable Ownership
This research report, sponsored by the FFI 2086 Society, hopes to inspire controversial discussions among business families, their advisors, and other stakeholders.
Three Wise Moves for Responding to Crises
Thanks to Michael Madera for this article discussing three wise moves to help your family enterprise clients understand and respond to external crises.
Congratulations to the Recipients of the 2020 Global Education Network (GEN) Scholarships
We are pleased to announce the 2019 winners of the FFI GEN scholarships and to thank the generous sponsors of these five awards for leading the way in ensuring that professionals in the field receive the outstanding interdisciplinary education that FFI has become known for globally.
FFI Practitioner: Most Popular Articles from the First 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 the first quarter of 2020!
The Natural Advantage of Family Businesses
With the current emphasis in the field on professionalizing family business governance, this week’s contributor, Ken McCracken, explores a different approach to governance based on what the family may already be doing successfully.
2020 Family Firm Institute Academic Awards
Submissions for 2020 Family Firm Institute Academic Awards are now open. The Best Doctoral Dissertation and Best Unpublished Research Paper awards have been given annually by the Family Firm Institute (FFI) since 1989.
Cases for Clients: 2020
For this week’s edition, we are pleased to continue our series featuring a diverse selection of family business cases previously published in FFI Practitioner.
FFI Practitioner: Most Popular Articles from the Third Quarter of 2019
FFI Practitioner remains one of the most attractive publications in the field and we are pleased that our broad-based circulation continues to generate interest and awareness of key topics in the field by authors from around the word.
Congratulations to the Recipients of the 2019 Global Education Network (GEN) Scholarships
We are pleased to announce the 2019 winners of the FFI GEN scholarships and to thank the generous sponsors of these five awards for leading the way in ensuring that professionals in the field receive the outstanding interdisciplinary education that FFI has become known for globally.
Cases for Clients
In this week’s edition, we are pleased to feature a selection of family business cases published in FFI Practitioner earlier this year. These cases can serve as effective tools to incorporate in consulting and educational work with clients and further the FFI Practitioner mission to provide readers with practical materials that support their work with multi-generational family enterprises.
Congratulations to the 2019 Award Recipients
FFI has always been about excellence, fostering academic research, encouraging best practices, and inspiring professionals for more than 30 years. Each year FFI honors excellence in the field by granting academic, achievement and FBR awards.