Business Management

Education Centers

Center for Family Business

Director: Ted Clark, Assistant Academic Specialist, Entrepreneurship & Innovation

checkout A membership-based educational program, the Center's activities revolve around constituent forums focused on the unique interests of emerging leaders, successors and senior generation family members who are stakeholders in their family businesses. The educational value of the constituent forums is enhanced by a core program of executive breakfast case conferences. The Center owns the most powerful search engine serving family enterprise, www.fambiz.com. The Center also publishes a newsletter, Family Business Quarterly, with a circulation of close to 10,000 readers. Students in entrepreneurship courses are regularly exposed to family business issues through classroom presentations and may also be available for marketing and research assignments in the Center's member companies. The Center serves more than 300 stakeholders in more than 70 family-owned businesses. The Center also sponsors the Family Firm Institute's Best Doctoral Dissertation Award. Founded in 1991.