Most businesses around the globe are controlled by their founding families, including more than half of all public corporations in the U.S. and Europe, and more than two thirds of these in Asia. These companies are the subject of the Financial Management of Family and Closely Held Businesses course, an elective MBA class at Harvard Business School. The class introduces governance and students, and management dilemmas faced by family firms, and to the means in which these issues can be dealt with.
The course provide students with a structure for examining how family possession, control, and management change value, and how and whether more value can be created for the various stakeholders in family firms. The class was created for pupils who may be involved with these companies in a number of purposes, including those of creators, stockholders, or supervisors of their own family's company, in addition to those of non-family managers and workers, investors or business partners (e.g., private equity investors), and advisers of various types (e.g., Investment bankers, board members, or advisers).
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