Ward
teaches and studies strategic management, business
leadership, and family enterprise continuity. He is
an active researcher, speaker and consultant on succession,
ownership, governance, and philanthropy. He is a regular
visiting lecturer at Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology, Indian School of Business, and IESE
(Spain).
He
is author of five leading books on family business,
Keeping the Family Business Healthy, Creating Effective
Boards for Private Enterprises, Strategic Planning for
the Family Business (with Randel Carlock), Perpetuating
the Family Business: 50 Lessons Learned from Long-Lasting
Successful Families in Business and Family
Business: Key Issues (with Denise Kenyon-Rouvinez).
With Craig Aronoff, Ward authors a collection of 16
booklets, “The Family Business Leadership Series,” each
booklet focusing on specific issues family businesses
face. (See www.efamilybusiness.com.)
Ward
graduated from Northwestern University (B.A.) and Stanford
Graduate School of Business (M.B.A. and Ph.D.). Formerly,
he was the Wild Group Professor of Family Business at
IMD (Lausanne, Switzerland) and the Ralph Marotta Professor
of Private Enterprise at Loyola University in Chicago.
Previously he was a Senior Associate with Strategic
Planning Institute (PIMS Program) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Currently, he serves on the boards of four companies
in the U.S. and Europe.
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