Leading Families, Sustaining Enterprises Program

Program participants from Leading Families, Sustaining Enterprises.

About

Leading Families, Sustaining Enterprises is an executive education course on family business in Latin America launched jointly by Cornell University and INCAE Business School. Our instructors present global best practices to support the competitiveness of family businesses and show participants how to apply them given local scenarios. This program is open to all.

Who should attend

Owners and members of family businesses
Members of different families that share ownership of the same company or business group
Senior managers of family businesses
Executives of the family business
Professionals and consultants who, due to their activity, must relate to this type of company

Why you should attend

Family enterprises represent nearly 90 percent of all businesses in Latin America. The management of these companies goes through difficult times when mixing two fundamental elements: love and money.

Therefore, it’s important to anticipate conflict and evaluate alternative mechanisms that allow for family harmony and business continuity in the long term.

This program is based on the experience and trajectory of two world-class institutions: Cornell University, through Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, and INCAE Business School. The union of these two business schools allows students to learn first-hand from professors and practitioners who are very well acquainted with both Latin America and the rest of the world.

This event provides us with the opportunity to share with many business families, from different countries of the region, and thus complements the learning with the experiences of the participants.

We invite you to join us in this program and, please, do not come alone. With experiences like this, it is important that several members of the family participate, in order to return to the day-to-day speaking the same language of success.

Outcomes

Understand family businesses: their challenges and opportunities.
Understand the options available to promote entrepreneurship in the family business.
Discuss alternative approaches to corporate governance in the family business.
Develop the fundamental tools for the Family Protocol.

Based on the lessons learned from the successful application in countless Latin American companies, our instructors will present global best practices to guarantee the competitiveness of family businesses, and, above all, show participants how to apply them according to their reality and within a local scenario.