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How Family Businesses Navigate Global Issues: From AI to Geopolitics and Trade Disruption
Read the recap of our latest partnership with AvS Advisors, How Family Businesses Navigate Global Issues: from AI to Geopolitics and Trade Disruption. The roundtable was designed for current family and non-family executives, board directors, trustees, and chairs of family-controlled businesses or family offices, as well as next-generation family members preparing to step into leadership roles.
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Where it all began: The John L. Ward Papers 1984-2017
As a pioneer in the academic study of family enterprises at the Kellogg Center for Family Enterprises, Professor John L. Ward's scholarly papers represent a comprehensive body of work that provides rich insights into this uniquely complex segment of the global economy. The collection is contained in 37 boxes and spans the years 1976-2017 and are available at the Northwestern University archives.
Family Enterprise Insights from Inc. Magazine
Read Dr. Matt Allen's column on family enterprises and family entrepreneurship.