The Shared Dream Fallacy
In this week’s edition of FFI Practitioner, which can serve as a conversation starter with your clients, Jay Hughes, Jr. and Dave Specht explore the notion that a shared dream for the future may be essential for the multigenerational success of a family enterprise.
Lessons for Advisors from the Nordic Perspective on Family Office Impact Investing: An interview with Camille Korschun and Erik Wetter
This week’s FFI Practitioner podcast concludes our series of interviews with presenters from this year’s FFI Global Conference.
How Does an Aging Society Disrupt Enterprising Families? An interview with Maria Sinanis
This week’s FFI Practitioner podcast, which continues our series of interviews from the FFI Global Conference speakers, is a conversation with Maria Sinanis of Cambridge Family Enterprise Group.
Recognizing Evolutionary Behavior in Enterprise Families: An interview with Andrew Gersick
For this week’s edition, FFI Practitioner is pleased to feature Andrew Gersick, a Visiting Researcher and Lecturer in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University and a Researcher in Computer Science at San Diego State University.
The Evolving Dynamics of Next-Generation Philanthropy
FFI Practitioner is pleased to invite Jon Quinn, Deputy Director at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, to discuss the factors contributing to the rising generation’s philanthropic goals and decisions.
FFI Practitioner: Thought Leaders from the FFI Global Conference
The 2022 FFI Global Conference is the latest example of FFI presenting its impressive global network of thought leaders in the field.
Creating Climate Futures: Business in a Changing World
FFI Practitioner is pleased to share a conversation with Jason Jay, Senior Lecturer and Director of the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative.
Building Consensus from Conflict: Tips and Tools
In this week’s FFI Practitioner, FFI Fellow and 2022 recipient of the FFI Interdisciplinary Award, Jack Wofford shares insights he’s developed over nearly 30 years as a mediator working with family enterprises.
Engaging the Next Generation for Effective Family Philanthropy
In this week’s FFI Practitioner, Karen Carlson examines the benefits to engaging the next generation in family enterprise philanthropy activities at a young age and provides several best practices for next generation philanthropic engagement.
Choosing the Next Chair While Differentiating From the CEO: How to handle a key transition
In this week’s FFI Practitioner, Daniela Montemerlo explores the important role of the board chair in a family enterprise and explains the benefits of appointing two different people to serve as chair and CEO.
FFI Practitioner: Most Popular Articles from the Third Quarter of 2022
We hope you’ve been enjoying the articles published in FFI Practitioner so far this year.
Professionalizing Family Businesses: How to orchestrate, change, and get things done
In this week’s FFI Practitioner, Paolo Morosetti addresses the topic of family enterprise professionalization.
Using ESG to Rebuild the “Trust Bonus”
In this week’s FFI Practitioner, Andrea Baars and Cydnee Griffin share findings from PwC’s Global NextGen Survey 2022 on the topic of ESG.
How to Break a Vicious Intergenerational Cycle in Family Enterprises
In this week’s FFI Practitioner, Eduardo Gentil, Bruna Tokunaga Dias, and Renata Brecailo share their observations about a common challenge facing intergenerational enterprising families
Research Applied: FBR Précis on When Family Business Meets Social Enterprise
FFI Practitioner is pleased to invite Robert Randolph to discuss his September 2022 Family Business Review article, “When Family Business Meets Social Enterprise: An Integrative Review and Future Research Agenda,” cowritten with Benjamin Alexander, Kristen Madison, and Francesco Barbera.
Commentary #5 on The Governance Marathon: A research report sponsored by FFI’s 2086 Society
This week we are pleased to continue our series of commentaries on the report, sponsored by the FFI 2086 Society, entitled “The Governance Marathon: Dynamic Durability in Entrepreneurial Families Amid Disruptions.”
Family Enterprise Advantage: Overcoming the “liabilities of newness”
In this week’s FFI Practitioner, FFI Fellow Lloyd Steier provides an overview of the “liabilities of newness” concept and then uses family business examples to illustrate how the concept can be helpful to practitioners by explaining the family advantage in firm creation, survival, and success.
FFI Global Conference Keynote Speakers and MIT’s Cutting-Edge Initiatives
This week’s FFI Practitioner features the five distinguished keynote presenters headlining the October FFI global conference, presented in collaboration with academic host MIT Sloan School of Management.
Commentary #4 on The Governance Marathon: A research report sponsored by the FFI 2086 Society
This week we are pleased to continue our series of commentaries on the report, sponsored by the FFI 2086 Society, entitled The Governance Marathon: Dynamic Durability in Entrepreneurial Families Amid Disruptions.
Iceberg Analysis of Family Systems
In this week’s FFI Practitioner, FFI Fellow and 2022 FFI International Award recipient Rodolfo Paiz, introduces the “Iceberg Analysis,” a framework that practitioners can use with their family enterprise clients to analyze the entire family enterprise system.