Global Family Enterprise Program

The Columbia Family Enterprise Program provides a global community of students, alumni, executives, and owners with essential knowledge and critical skills to be effective leaders, successful managers, knowledgeable advisors, and informed beneficiaries of family-controlled enterprises.

Family enterprises are the heart of the world’s economy and society, and our goal is to help their major decision makers, stakeholders, and advisors have a positive impact on business, financial, civic and philanthropic sectors.

An educational hub for students, scholars, and alumni. Through targeted courses, dedicated research, and extracurricular offerings, we cover all aspects of owning, managing, and working with family enterprises.

• Families own at least 80% of the world’s businesses.
• Family enterprises employ the majority of workers globally.
• Family offices actively invest in private equity and venture capital.
• Families fund most of the world’s philanthropy and are at the cutting edge of social enterprise.

Family enterprises can be public and private, and include many household names such as:

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