Families in Business From Generation to Generation

The information below is based on the program offered in 2009, and does not reflect potential changes to faculty and course content for the 2010 course.

What You Can Expect

The primary goal of Families in Business: From Generation to Generation is to prepare participants to identify and leverage business and family strengths for competitive advantage and family success. This leadership training program provides leading-edge information, addresses key topics of concern, and examines successful resolution strategies that are critical to family-owned and family-managed companies.

Through focused classroom sessions, dynamic interaction with participants from around the world, and facilitated discussions with one's own individual family teams, the program prepares individuals and teams to:

  • Identify and address the specific challenges associated with family-owned and family-managed businesses
  • Maximize the family business's strengths and minimize its vulnerabilities
  • Formulate effective strategies to reach common goals, address conflicts, and plan for a family's future
  • Develop practices that lead to high-performance companies, loyal shareholders, and healthy families

How Will My Organization Benefit?

Executive Education programs at Harvard Business School represent a are investment for both you and your organization. Going far beyond the basic transmission of skills and theories, each leadership development program provides applicable lessons in the classroom that can be implemented successfully within your organization. You will acquire a fresh perspective on global business from our groundbreaking curriculum, world-renowned faculty, and an accomplished group of elite peers from around the world.

"We found the FIB program to be a powerful experience. Its content, workload, and structure provided an incredible forum for discussion, and encouraged our family to communicate openly about sensitive issues. The business will be well served by the work we accomplished at FIB, particularly in terms of our business strategies and long-term plans. Of equal importance was the affirmation that we love what we do, and we love doing it together. We emerged an even closer and more dedicated group of family owners—our mission has never been stronger."
David McLean [Chairman and CEO], The McLean Group of Companies, Canada