STRT-447 Family Enterprises: Issues and Solutions (Winter quarter)

The intent of the course is to master and extend state of the art thinking on family firm success factors and continuity across generations. The course is intended primarily for students from business-owning families, whether they plan to work in the business or not. The course is also appropriate for families who invest or conduct philanthropic activities together. Topics range from generational transition to family dynamics to strategic differentiators of family firms. Students engage in a variety of learning formats including live case discussions, guest speakers, a simulation an exploration of their family enterprise and an investigation of personal management style. The class incorporates latest business trends and their impact in the family firm context.

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FINC-477 Global Entrepreneurial Finance

Global Entrepreneurial Finance is designed to intersect three areas of interest:

• (A) Entrepreneurial Finance and Private Equity including Entrepreneurial Buyouts
• (B) Family and Closely-Held Firms
• (C) International Finance with special emphasis on cross-border valuation and access to finance

By nature, this course is a finance course that deals with entrepreneurial, family, and closely-held firms in an international context including both developed and emerging market countries where institutions and property rights are weak. The core question behind the course is this: How do entrepreneurial managers, family firms, closely held firms and those who finance them design and execute transactions that effectively match opportunities and resources in an international context?

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FINC-948-0 Keeping it all in the Family: Growing, Financing, and Managing Family Firms

Most companies around the world are owned or controlled by their founding families. The subject of the course is these firms in their different forms: private family firms, closely held firms, family offices and family investment offices. The course explores the unique finance, legal, governance and management issues faced by family firms, and ways in which these issues can be addressed. The course provides students interested in founding, owning, managing, investing in, or partnering with such firms with a framework for analyzing how family ownership and control affect value, and how this value is created and allocated to the various stakeholders of the firm. The course specifically focuses on the financial, legal and corporate governance aspects of family control and their managerial implications.

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CFE Mentoring Circles

The John L. Ward Center for Family Enterprises (CFE) is pleased to offer family business students the opportunity to engage in meaningful small group discussions called mentoring circles. The mentoring circles are guided by CFE alumni and veteran family business leaders. These facilitators are leaders in their professions who willingly share their knowledge and experience to enrich the lives of family business students.

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Family Enterprise Club (FEC)

The student-run Family Enterprise Club aims to develop the awareness of and interest in the "Family Enterprise" dimension of business within and beyond the Kellogg Community. The Kellogg Family Enterprise Club activities include consulting, support, social events, keynote speakers, networking, and access to relevant materials, all of which represent the Club's foundations.

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