Family Business Centers

At the Weatherhead Center for Family Business, we understand the unique challenges and opportunities that come with running a family enterprise. Our mission is to empower multi-generational family businesses to thrive across generations. Read more...

It is our hope that the Center for Private Business continues to be a catalyst for economic growth and deeply embedded in the social prosperity of our region and beyond. Membership enables privately-held businesses to thrive by helping them to achieve dreams for their business, family, employees, community, and stakeholders by providing access to industry leaders, resources, networks, and education. Read more...

The Bailey Program for Family Enterprise is an educational community for family businesses and family offices to learn and connect with others dedicated to sustainable growth and multigenerational success. We provide workshops, certificates and roundtable networking events to support your family legacy in the phase you are in–as you build, grow, transition, sustain and innovate. Our expert faculty teach a Read more...

The LMU Family Business Entrepreneurship Program was started to meet the needs of businesses, alumni, and students looking for a community and resources to help address the unique challenges and opportunities faced by family-run businesses.  LMU's Fred Kiesner Center for Entrepreneurship partnered with Business Consulting Resources, one of the leading family business consultancies in the country, to create a unique program that Read more...

Family enterprises are unique and critical to the economy of South Carolina. In fact, some of the businesses founded in South Carolina are among the oldest and most successful family businesses in the United States. But success, whether as a family, a business, or both, does not happen by accident. The Kim S. Miller Family Enterprise Institute of South Carolina Read more...

The Black School of Business is pleased to announce the launch of a new outreach center that focuses on helping family-owned businesses. The Center for Family Business supports the needs of family-owned businesses in northwestern Pennsylvania, which make up about 90 percent of all small businesses in the region. Information and expertise in succession planning, estate planning, social media, management Read more...

Part of the University of Pittsburgh’s Office of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, the Institute for Entrepreneurial Excellence has served businesses throughout western Pennsylvania for more than 25 years. Offering a dynamic mix of consulting, education, and networking opportunities, the IEE strives to be an innovative leader in economic development in the region. Read more...

Our mission is to provide next generation family business leaders with the expertise and resources to: Develop entrepreneurial, sustainable family enterprises, Create and maintain healthy family and working relationships, and Be responsible stewards of family business assets. Students from all over the world choose UNC Kenan-Flagler and the Family Enterprise Center to prepare them for the challenges of leadership and ownership within Read more...

The UNI Family Business Centers offers support to Iowa's family-owned businesses.  The center provides significant benefits lsuch as a seat on the UNI FBC advisory board, advertisement spots and opportunities to speak to organizations dedicated to supporting local family owned businesses.   Read more...

The Center for Private Business continues is a catalyst for economic growth and deeply embedded in the social prosperity of our region and beyond. Membership enables privately-held businesses to thrive by helping them to achieve dreams for their business, family, employees, community, and stakeholders by providing access to industry leaders, resources, networks, and education. Read more...

The John L. Ward Center for Family Enterprises has pioneered much of what is known about the collective challenges business-owning families face and led new ways of thinking about the management and leadership of family enterprises.The gift will help the center expand its educational offerings to: - Share research insights with leading family enterprises around the world - Conduct groundbreaking research Read more...

The Drucker School Global Family Business Institute connects family businesses with leaders who have overcome the challenges unique to the family enterprise, resources to help identify and strategize effective solutions, and support to address the complexities of generational differences. The institute serves as an educational arm of the Drucker School of Management that equips current family business leaders with relevant Read more...