To stay apprised of the specific needs and challenges of family businesses, we again commissioned the expert assistance of market research firm MacKenzie Corporation, a second-generation family business in Orange County, California, to conduct our 2024 Family Business Survey. Read more about three optimistic findings from this year's results.
Josh Baron, Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School and Co-Founder, BanyanGlobal, explores what it means to define success in a family business. Watch Baron's presentation and his discussion with family business owners on navigating strategy and metrics to define success.
Hosted by the First Bank Center for Family-Owned Businesses, John K. Murphy, guest speaker and president of JK Murphy Advisors, discusses why understanding the value of your business, even if you have no intentions to sell, is imperative. Murphy shares tools on how to understand the value of your family business, especially when it comes to how your competitors and industry experts see your business. In this session, you will explore your strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities to improve.
Dennis T. Jaffe, PhD, Senior Research Fellow at BanyanGlobal Family Business Advisors, acclaimed workshop leader, speaker, and author, shares common traits, actions, and philosophies of family enterprises around the world that are 100 years old or older.
Revenues, profits, a strong balance sheet: measuring success is important to all businesses. But, are there other important measurements in a family-owned business? Find out what the key metrics are for successful, generational family businesses.
The Center for Family-Owned Businesses held a webinar on September 14, 2021. Shelley Seifert, First Bank’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and peer female family business leaders held a discussion on the obstacles they’ve overcome to achieve success.