Family Enterprise Insights

Professor Michaela Pagel and colleague document how a spouse who spends more of his or her share of income increases overall household spending.

The New Ideas in Family Firms Conference brings together the world’s leading academic researchers and consulting practitioners to discuss what they can learn from each other and how to move theory and practice forward.  

Professor Adam Galinsky and co-authors explore whether emotions intensify among people in groups in “Feeling more together: Group attention intensifies emotion.”

In “Board Composition and CEO Power,” Professor Tim Baldenius and colleagues study the optimal composition of corporate boards.

Professor Daniel Wolfenzon and colleague provide insights into this form of family firm ownership in “A Theory of Pyramidal Ownership and Family Business Groups.”

Professor Daniel Wolfenzon and colleagues provide thought-provoking findings on family versus non-family- CEO’s of family firms in Inside the Family Firm: Families in Succession Decisions and Performance.

Research by Professor Daniel Wolfenzon, Stefan H. Robock Professor of Finance and Economics, and colleagues examines family firm ownership structures. 

Many family businesses have enjoyed success for decades, even centuries. In Harvard Business Review, Professor Josh Baron PhD, explores five aspects of ownership that are crucial to family business success.

Shai Davidai, Associate Professor, Management, Columbia Business School, determines the role charitable giving plays on whether others perceive that the rich deserve their wealth.

Kevin Kwan spoke to MBA students about the themes of his novels and his own path to becoming a world-renowned author.