The Evolution of Ownership Decision-Making in Family Enterprises: From Founder to Next Generation
For family enterprises, passing ownership from the founder to the next generation represents a critical transition that requires careful planning to help the family prepare for increasingly complex decision-making processes.
Education and Development: Preparing NextGen members for family enterprise ownership
What should family enterprise clients do to help ensure members of the next generation are prepared to assume ownership of the enterprise when the time comes?
Future-Ready Shareholders Agreements to Help Family Enterprises Navigate Turbulent Times
In today’s turbulent world, family enterprise owners must become more agile to keep up with increasing rate of change.
A Strong Owners Team: An asset for the family business
This week’s edition kicks off a series of articles by presenters at the in-person 2021 FFI Global Conference, October 21-22.
Governing What is Mine, Yours, and Ours
Thanks to this week’s contributor, FFI Fellow and founding member of FFI, Ernesto Poza, for this thought piece on the many facets of ownership in family enterprises and how effective governance can help to clarify these complex dynamics.
Research Applied: FBR Précis for FFI Practitioner
Thanks to this week’s contributor, Kim Schneider Malek of the FBR Research Applied Board, for her précis of “Founder-Controlled Family Firms, Overconfidence, and Corporate Social Responsibility Engagement: Evidence from Survey Data,” which appears in the March 2021 issue of FBR.
The Future of the Three-Circle Model: A conversation between Pramodita Sharma and John Davis
This week’s FFI Practitioner concludes our two-part series commemorating the 40th anniversary of the influential Three-Circle Model. Thank you to FFI Fellows Pramodita Sharma and John Davis for sharing their insightful conversation about future the future of the model, research, and the field.
Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Three-Circle Model: An interview with John Davis
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the legendary Three-Circle Model, FFI Practitioner is excited to share two editions about the model during the month of June. For the first edition, we’d like to thank Pramodita Sharma for her interview about the inception and impact of the model on the field with one of its two creators, John Davis.