Family Enterprise
Below are resources that address the complex and vast landscape of Family Enterprise.
Governance for Business-Owning Families (Part II): It starts at the top
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published in WealthManagement.com March 2018 The world is full of family businesses. Literally. Most of the world’s businesses are owned, controlled and often managed by a group of family members.1 These families face challenges…
Six Ways To Improve Family Business Governance
All business-owning families already have governance in place on multiple levels, but it’s often overlooked. By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published in Trusts & Estates, March 15, 2017 Families who own businesses often overlook the challenge that is “governing” all…
Successfully Climbing the Growth Ladder in Family Enterprises
Highlights from Columbia Business School’s annual conference. By Patricia Riberas – Originally published in Trusts & Estates, March 10, 2017 On Feb. 17, 2017, family business owners, advisors and managers gathered at Columbia Business School’s Fourth Annual Family Business Conference to…
Governance for Business-Owning Families (Part I): An often overlooked challenge
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published in WealthManagement.com March 2017 Families who own businesses face a challenge they often overlook, that is, “governing” all that they do together inside, and outside, of the business. Admittedly, governance itself is fraught…
Next Gen 2.0: Taking things to a higher level
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published in Trusts & Estates in March 2016. You can’t miss it (or them). “Next Gen” is everywhere. The private wealth management industry is awash in Next Gen summits, educational programs, research studies and…
Eureka! Was 2015 the year family business was “discovered?”
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published in Trusts & Estates, January 25 2016 Looking back some day, 2015 might be known as the year that family business was “discovered,” at least by a group far larger than those specializing in…
Estate and Wealth Planning for Family Enterprises: Reality – Not Myth – as the Proper Starting Point
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published on FFI on April 15, 2015. The 2015 FFI Global Conference theme of “myths and realities” provides an excellent opportunity to focus attention on how best to advise family enterprises for the long-term…
My Family Enterprise Day
Don’t overlook what’s all around you By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published in Trusts & Estates, May 2014 Planning for family businesses is becoming a hot topic in the private wealth management community. While the discussion often focuses on what…
Pritzker Family Enterprise: A Family Governance Case Study
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published on Columbia CaseWorks Fall 2013 What does the Pritzker family story, one of the wealthiest and most philanthropic families in the United States, tell us about family governance?
Reality Trumps Myth: Pritzker family enterprise story
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published in Trusts & Estates, March 2014 Family business, trust and estate planners have been relying on a set of assumptions about client goals, family relationships and the definition of “success” for as long…
Which Gen?
Questioning the Labeling Trend By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published in Trusts & Estates, May 2013 The private wealth management industry has recently directed its focus to the “Next Gen.” Originally a term used in the technology industry, it’s quickly…
The Perfect Storm?
It’s brewing on the estate-planning horizon, and clients and their advisors may be heading directly into it By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published in Trusts & Estates, March 2013 Although it was more than a decade ago, I still remember…
Family Meetings Come of Age: How to create an effective forum for all generations
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published on WealthManagement.com, 2013 As older members of the Baby Boom generation were reaching adulthood, I spent many an hour watching the bevy of TV shows that were focused on the ways that the…
Island Hopping
An archipelago can be a model for healthy relationships. By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published in Trusts & Estates, December 2012 Last month, I had the opportunity to walk through a city that’s connected as much by its bridges as…
What is a family council and when should a family consider establishing one?
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published by National Center for Family Philanthropy, October 15, 2012 Many families with multiple branches may elect to set up a Family Council. While the particular roles and responsibilities of Family Councils vary across…
Family Governance: A Primer for Philanthropic Families
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published on NCFP Passages in 2004. Families who engage in philanthropy together have a unique opportunity to make a positive impact on the world and to share an experience that can enrich their lives…
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From Textiles to Multi-generational Wealth: The Shah Family Enterprise
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published on Columbia CaseWorks, Spring 2024 What are the factors that drove a family-owned chemical company’s success, and how…
Trust Ownership of Family Businesses:
Planning for the Future
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published in Trusts & Estates, February 2024 The scenario is all too common. The founders (or non-founding owners) of a…
Everything Everywhere All at Once?
Family Enterprises in 2024
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published in Trusts & Estates, January 2024 The 2023 Academy Awards ceremony was quite a sweep for the film Everything…
Complex Family Enterprise: A new way to describe a growing phenomenon
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published in Trusts & Estates, March 2023 Trusts and estates practitioners (for example, lawyers, accountants and investment advisors) take their…
Your Family Business Needs a Board
By Patricia M. Angus, published in Harvard Business Review, September 08, 2022 A board should be at the helm of any family business, steering the business…
Mental Health and Estate Planning
Patricia joins Arden O’Connor of the Beyond the Balance Sheet podcast in a discussion about estate planning with mental health and addiction issues in mind….
In Tax We Trust: Implications of growing societal and client trends
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published on WealthManagement.com on February 13, 2022 Most private wealth advisors (including trusts and estates lawyers, accountants and investment…
Virtual Fireside Chat with Leading Family Enterprise and Family Office Experts
The role of family offices in structuring and advising families with regards to liquidity events and family dynamics. Strategies for families to intelligently run and manage the risks associated with private wealth and operating businesses concurrently…
Sustainable Growth Drivers for Family Enterprises
This webinar draws from the experiences of different stakeholders, explores how family businesses in Africa have evolved, the challenges faced, and the main drivers behind…
The Purpose and Power of Family Governance
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published as a blogpost for NCFP, June, 2021Excerpt from “Passages Issue Brief: Enhancing Your Family Philanthropy with The Family Governance…
Guidance for Family Offices: How to approach ESG investing
By Patricia Angus and Camille Korschun – Originally published in Family Enterprise Insights, March 2021 Introduction: Environmental, Social, and Governance investing (ESG investing) is an…
Family Enterprise in The Center of it All
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published on WealthManagement.com, December 2020 It’s impossible to look at 2020 and not see family enterprises in the center…
What Role Should a Family Business Play in Its Community?
By Patricia M. Angus, published in Harvard Business Review, February 06, 2020 As a family business leader, you must ask: what is your understanding of the…
Founding Women of Family Wealth
Patricia Angus convened the Founding Women of Family Wealth for a series of panel discussions exploring the practitioner perspective, at Columbia Business School Global Family…
Family Enterprise in the Spotlight: Key Takeaways from the Sackler Family Enterprise Story
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published by Columbia Business School Family Business Program in 2020 Introduction: Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the opioid crisis…
How Should a Family Firm Approach an Ethical Dilemma?
Family firms comprise between 70 and 90% of economic activity depending on the country or region, so the impact of family business ethics can be…
Practice, Practice, Practice: Musings on being a “Practitioner”
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published in FFI Practitioner, July 16, 2019 In this edition of FFI Practitioner, Patricia examines what it truly means to…
Who’s in Charge?
A new model for understanding family business ownership By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published in Trusts & Estates, March 2019 Family businesses are complex in many…
Columbia Business School discussion on Enterprising Families: Challenges, Opportunities, and Keys to Success
Many families today co-own complex businesses, trusts, and investments, but there’s no single guidebook for these enterprising families on how to do all this together,…
House of Redstone: Family Enterprise in Three Acts
By Patricia M. Angus – Originally published on Columbia CaseWorks, Fall 2018 What family enterprise, ownership, and governance lessons can be gleaned from the multigenerational…