NBA 4720

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NBA 4720
Family Enterprise Management & Governance

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2022-2023.

Most companies around the world are controlled by their founding families, including more than half of all public corporations in Europe, and more than two thirds of those in Asia. Even in the United States, where ownership dispersion is at its highest, founding families exercise a significant degree of control over more than half of all public corporations. This course explores the challenges and opportunities created by family leadership and ownership. This elective is designed for students who may be involved in family firms and closely held companies in a variety of roles: joining either their own family's or someone else's firm, and students who will do business with family firms, consult to them, invest in them, work with them in private wealth management, mergers and acquisitions, banking, consulting etc. Through case studies, lectures, student projects and guest speakers, the course provides students with exposure to the unique finance, governance, and management issues faced by family firms, and ways in which these issues can be addressed. The course provides students with a framework for analyzing how family ownership, control, and management affect value, and whether and how more value can be created for the various stakeholders. The course brings an integrated financial and managerial perspective to the study of family firms focusing on the financial and corporate governance aspects of family control and their managerial implications.

When Offered Spring.

Permission Note Open to: all undergraduate students. 

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Syllabi: none

  •   Seven Week - Second.  Combined with: NBA 6720

  • 1.5 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 19270 NBA 4720   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    • Enrollment limited to: Non-Johnson Undergraduate Seniors and Juniors only. • Add/drop January 17th at 9:00am to January 30th at 11:59pm with an additional add/drop period March 15 - 22.. • You may only add or drop a 2nd 7-week class March 22nd with permission of the faculty AND a late fee of $100.00 will be charged for each add or drop transaction. • If you are dropping after March 22nd at 11:59pm you will also receive a "W" on your transcript in addition to the late fees. • There will be no enrollment from a wait list into a class if you have a time conflict or if it will create an overload.

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