Family Business Resource Center

2023 Family Business Symposium - Building a Lasting Legacy: The Tenets of Multigenerational Family Businesses

Dennis Jaffe, Senior Research Fellow at BanyanGlobal Family Business Advisors, shares his findings after interviewing fourth generation family businesses across 20 countries during the 2023 Family Business Symposium.

2023 Family Business Symposium - Leaving a Legacy: What Are the Purposes Your Family Business Serves?

First Bank's Center for Family-Owned Businesses held the Family Business Symposium on October 19-20, 2023. Watch Mike Dierberg's symposium introduction "Leaving a Legacy: What are the Purposes Your Family Business Serves?"

Transitioning the Business: Building Your Legacy

This article, “Building Your Legacy,” written by Joshua Nacht and originally published in Family Business Magazine, discusses the process in which multi-generational family businesses develop a sustainable legacy.

Educating the Next Generation

Charlie Rhomberg shares how Crescent Electric Supply overcomes the challenges of keeping over 100 shareholders across seven family branches informed and on the same page.

Webinar: Keeping the Family Legacy Alive

The First Bank Center for Family-Owned Businesses held a webinar on family legacy and family business, with Michael Dierberg, Chairman of the Board, FB Corporation (First Bank) and fourth generation owner, and Pierre duPont of the duPont family. This intriguing and inspiring discussion between two American, values-driven family business leaders focused on running a multi-generational family business, investment strategies, philanthropic endeavors, and honoring and protecting the family and family business legacy.

Webinar: What Makes Them So Special, Anyway? Family Business Legacies Withstanding the Test of Time

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.