Speaker: Ernesto Poza

Learn from your predecessors'
mikstakes and successes!

Success Strategies of 100-year family firms

October 22, 2009
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Professor of Global Family Enterprise
Thunderbird School of Global Management

     Ernesto Poza is an internationally recognized, top-rated speaker and consultant to family-owned businesses. He is Professor of Global Family Enterprise at Thunderbird’s School of Global Management. He has advised top managements of privately-held and Fortune 500 companies in strategic management, succession planning, growth and governance. Among the firms served in the U.S., Latin America and Spain are: Chiquita Brands (Costa Rica and Honduras), Donnely Mirror, E. W. Scripps Company, Gonzalez Byass, S.A. (sherry and wine, Spain) and Catalana de Occidente (insurance, Spain), Grupo Alfa and Grupo Financiero Bancomer (conglomerate and banking, Mexico), El Nuevo Dia (news media, Puerto Rico), Grupo Salcedo (food products, Ecuador), Huber & Co, and Mars, Inc. (Snicker’s and M&Ms). Poza has also consulted with a hundred or so smaller, yet equally wonderful, privately-held firms in their efforts to keep the business successful and the family united during the often turbulent generational transition period. Click here for a list of his books on family business issues.

     Professor Poza has recently completed more than 20 years of research on centennial family firms and will present his findings in this fascinating workshop which explores:

  1. The generational divide and the predictable conflict between the generations
  2. How this interpersonal conflict is a key ingredient in promoting family business adaptation and continued competitiveness
  3. How the current generation addresses the past so that the next generation can focus on the future
  4. Resources that can be uniquely turned into competitive advantage by family companies because of the family-business interaction
  5. The need for a vision that reinvents the business in the next generation
  6. The importance of transferring the "business’ secret" to the next generation
  7. The essential partnerships with key nonfamily management and the board
  8. The unique role of patient capital
  9. The central role that families play in building companies that last

Take-Aways:

  1. Prioritizing your Multiyear Family Business Continuity Plan
  2. Ten Rules of the Road: Reflections on the Long Journey
  3. Fundamental Lessons from Centennial Family Companies
  4. What the CEO, the CEO spouse, key nonfamily management and the next generation can do to promote family business longevity and continuity
  5. What you can do about it, starting today.

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