Family Business Initiatives
Family Business Strategy - Open to all Notre Dame Students, this family business fundamentals course surveys the spectrum of family business topics from introductory perspectives. Students have the opportunity to interview key persons from their family owned business and business owning family or from the company and family they have targeted for this course.
The course provides definition of the family business, identifies leadership challenges, examines succession challenges, and identifies best practices for managing the family firm. It looks at the role of governance, non-family managers and the family culture in sustaining a competitive advantage in the marketplace as it looks lastly at the evolving and changing family business.
Professors James H. Davis Ph.D. and H. David Hayes of the University of Notre Dame and Steven L. McClure, Ph.D. of The Family Business Consulting Group, Inc. received a grant from The Family Business Family Owned Business for their family business focused research: Commitment as a Competitive Advantage.
Mssrs. Davis, Hayes, and McClure will present their theory supported with research findings to a practitioner audience in San Francisco at the Family Firm Institute's (FFI) Annual Conference, in October.
Persons interested in participating in this or other family business research may contact:
David Hayes
William Alexander Nolan Director in Family Business Enterprise
The Gigot Center for Entrepreneurial Studies
234 Mendoza College of Business
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
574-631-3042
fambus@nd.edu
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