Courses

Family business courses

Guided paths for business families and the next generation: short lessons, research-based assessments and case films, step by step, ending with a certificate.

  • Family Business Foundations

    What makes a family business, and why it behaves the way it does.

    • Tell a family business from other firms
    • Explain how family and business logic shape decisions
    • Place a firm among the four types of family firm
    • See where a family firm's advantage comes from

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  • Governance

    Owners, boards, councils and the rules a family agrees on.

    • Recognize the agency problems that only family firms have
    • Run shareholder meetings and shape a shareholder agreement
    • Give a board the right tasks and the right mix of members
    • Choose between family meetings, an assembly and a council

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  • Coming soon

    Ownership

    How families own a business together, and stay together.

  • Coming soon

    Succession

    Handing over the business from one generation to the next.

Rather pick your own order? Explore your way: any assessment, lesson or reflection, in the order you like.

How it works

From your first assessment to your certificate

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