The John L. Ward Center for Family Enterprises

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 to better understand the uniqueness of and challenges facing enterprising families globally

– Engage scholars and family enterprises to inform the discipline more fully and to enhance the scholarship and capabilities of the field

– Augment the family enterprise case and history library – with an emphasis on older, larger, global families that have achieved generational continuity