Professor John Davis joins the YPO Brazil podcast “Extraordinary Leaders.”
In this exclusive episode, Prof. Davis shares his extensive experience and knowledge of the unique challenges and opportunities that surround family business management. Through an in-depth conversation, they explore topics such as the importance of planned succession, family dynamics in the business environment, and how businesses can thrive across generations.
In addition to practical tips for entrepreneurs and successors, Prof. Davis brings inspiring stories and valuable insights into leadership in the family context.
MIT Sloan faculty John Davis and Deborah Ancona discuss why building an owners team is crucial, and what makes an owners team strong and effective.
Given the critical role and contribution of owners in the long-term success of a family enterprise, it is important that the owners remain a strong, unified, and capable team. This requires deliberate effort, especially over time and across generations as the ownership group grows larger and more diverse and complex. MIT Sloan faculty John Davis and Deborah Ancona will discuss why building an owners team is crucial, and what makes an owners team strong and effective.
Equip your family enterprise with the tools and knowledge to cultivate a united and resilient owners team for lasting success. Learn more from Davis and Ancona during their course: Future Family Enterprise: Sustaining Multigenerational Success Future Family Enterprise: Sustaining Multigenerational Success.
Key takeaways:
Why capable owners—especially active owners—are a key advantage for family businesses
The qualities of a strong ownership team and how they are developed
The challenges and practices of building a cross-generational team of owners in your family enterprise
A podcast conversation with John Davis, Chairman and Founder of the Cambridge Family Enterprise Group and Senior Lecturer in Family Enterprise at MIT Sloan and Jason Jay, Senior Lecturer and Director of the Sustainability Initiative at the MIT Sloan School of Management. In this podcast, John and Jason discuss systemic investing.
In this podcast, Jason and John discuss Jason’s year of researching and discussing systemic investing with the FFI community.
The literature indicates that the board of directors exists to provide resources and strategic direction (service task) and monitor top managers (control task), often tending to overgeneralize board tasks. Using a unique sample of 36 elite family firm directors having served on 615 boards with an aggregate 1447 years’ experience, and integrating interview and secondary data with observations, we capture how the multiple role identity struggles experienced by family directors are managed in the board. Our data indicate that effective boards resolve multiple role identity struggles (i.e., family director ‘pathos’) through the mechanisms that boardroom structural forces trigger and the resulting bridge and buffer tasks enacted (i.e., board ‘ethos’), going beyond the traditional service and control tasks.
Is your family growing the value you want to be building?
Learn from MIT’s family enterprise experts about the two latest trends that help families build value (of various kinds) across generations, particularly in this era of rapid change and global uncertainty.
MIT Sloan faculty John Davis and Jason Jay discuss their latest insights on two emerging trends: how an owner strategy and systemic investing are being put to use by families to grow value, develop family talent, and build family unity across generations.
This webinar is especially relevant for the owners and leaders of family enterprises and family offices who want to stay ahead of the curve and gain new insights about family enterprise success.
Key takeaways include:
Why family enterprises need to pivot their value-creation strategies, given today’s turbulence
How families are putting to use two strategies to build value: an owner strategy and systemic investing
How your family can make use of these strategies in your family enterprise or family office
The latest thinking on family enterprise out of MIT
Information about the upcoming Future Family Enterprise program
Today, family business leaders and owners face some of the most challenging and high-stakes decisions seen in a generation.
How are YOU navigating the complex decisions that your family enterprise faces? Let’s dig into them together in this important conversation—a Q&A with Professor John Davis.
MIT Management Executive Education November 15, 2021
This is a new era for family businesses. To succeed in this turbulent period, family businesses must adopt new practices at not only the operations level, but also at the ownership level.
Professor John Davis explores the owner perspective, owner-level decisions, and how to architect governance to make these strategic decisions for the family business and family assets.