As a member of a family with a significant business legacy, you may feel both incredibly lucky and weighed down with responsibility. How can you best deploy your talents, capabilities, and resources? How should you think about the family legacy, the needs of future generations, and your responsibility to society?
This program focuses specifically on the choices facing the rising generation in the context of a successful family enterprise. Some members of the new generation will decide to pursue leadership roles in managing the family business or family wealth while others will find a different path, but all will benefit from a holistic exploration of their connection to the family enterprise. In a program that places all options on the table—and explores many of the topics that families avoid talking about—you will gain a new ability to carry the weight of generations with grace while taking full advantage of the unique opportunities presented to you.
Program for Leadership Development participants earn 3 PLDA Points on completion of this program.
Program for Leadership Development participants earn 3 PLDA Points on completion of this program.
When you participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the learning model has been carefully designed to facilitate your growth. Your learning will take place on your own, in your living group, and in the larger classroom, driven by the renowned HBS case method.
When you participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the learning model has been carefully designed to facilitate your growth. Your learning will take place on your own, in your living group, and in the larger classroom, driven by the renowned HBS case method.
Through a rich learning experience that includes faculty presentations, dynamic classroom discussions, current cases, small group work, panels, and guest speakers, you will explore the challenges and opportunities you face as part of the rising generation in a family enterprise.
The curriculum will be tailored to the specific roles and experiences of participants. You will have a unique opportunity to explore challenges in a way that encompasses the entire family enterprise—family business and family wealth—while focusing on your own goals and perspectives as a member of the rising generation. Away from your own family, you will be able to explore subjects that are often difficult to discuss in family business settings, such as aspirations, salary, promotion, and succession.
Our Executive Education programs are developed and taught by HBS faculty who are widely recognized as skilled educators, groundbreaking researchers, and award-winning authors. Through their board memberships, consulting, and field-based research, they address the complex challenges facing business leaders across the globe.
L.E. Simmons Professor of Business Administration
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration
Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management
Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration
Our Executive Education programs are developed and taught by HBS faculty who are widely recognized as skilled educators, groundbreaking researchers, and award-winning authors. Through their board memberships, consulting, and field-based research, they address the complex challenges facing business leaders across the globe.
L.E. Simmons Professor of Business Administration
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration
Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management
Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking
Senior Lecturer of Business Administration