Family Business, International Edition

Part I: THE FAMILY BUSINESS: WHAT MAKES IT UNIQUE?
1. The Nature, Importance, and Uniqueness of Family Business.
2. Great Families in Business: Building Trust and Commitment.
3. Ownership of an Enterprise Built to Last.
Case 1. The Binghams and the Louisville Courier-Journal Companies.
Case 2. Small Family Business: Power Play at the Inn.
Case 3. The Ferré Media Group.
Case 4. Small Family Business: She'll Always Be My Little Sister".
Case 5. The Vega Food Company.
Part II: LEADERSHIP IMPERATIVES FOR THE FAMILY AND BUSINESS: SUCCESSION AND CONTINUITY.
4. Succession: Continuing Entrepreneurship and the Next Generation.
5. Succession and the Transfer of Power.
Case 6. Sigma Motion, Inc.
Case 7. Small Family Business: The Ambivalent CEO of the Construction Company.
Case 8. Small Family Business: Borrowing to Grow at Andrews Company.
Case 9. Small Family Business: Adams Funeral Homes: Deciding on the Successor.
Case 10. Fasteners for Retail: A Question of Succession (Part A).
Case 11. Ferré Media Group (Part B).
Case 12. Cousins Tournament.
Part III: BEST PRACTICES FOR THE MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE OF THE FAMILY BUSINESS.
6. Creating the Strategy.
7. Planning the Estate.
8. Financial Considerations Unique to Family Businesses.
9. Key Nonfamily Management: The Visible Commitment to Managing the Family Business Professionally.
10. Family Business Governance: Advisory Boards and Boards of Directors.
11. Family Communication: Family Meetings, Family Councils, and Family Offices.12. Change and Adaptation: The Future of Family Business.
13. Continuing the Spirit of Enterprise: Lessons from Centennial Family Companies.
Case 13. Reliance Industries: Governance in the Face of Sibling Rivalry (Part A).
Case 14. Small Family Business: The Son-in-Law.
Case 15. Small Family Business: The New MBA.
Case 16. Small Family Business: Real Estate Development Partners, Inc.
Case 17. Small Family Business: GlassKing Distributor Company.
Case 18. Reliance

Poza, Ernesto
Ernesto Poza is a professor for the Global Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise at the Thunderbird School of Global Management. His research interests are in the areas of family business continuity, growing the family-led business, governance of family business, and family culture.