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Jon Sebastiani ’12 took the audience through his journey joining his family’s businesses and expounded on some of the successes and challenges he faced. He shared practical relational advice for those thinking of joining their family’s business and what to look out for, as well as some career advice from his experience launching his own private equity fund after his family sold their business and he graduated from CBS.

Leaders in retail, real estate, and spoke about how their businesses pivoted during the pandemic and what the “new normal” looks like.

The New Ideas in Family Firms Conference is an invitation-only thought leadership platform that was launched in 2018 to bring together a small group of the world’s leading academic researchers and practitioners to discuss the latest ideas in family enterprise research and advisory work.

This article by CBS Professor Bruce Kogut and Jordi Colomer proposes a concept of structural equality as a compromise between competing policy preferences of equality and individual liberty to address a stunning property of the governance of corporations, namely, the paucity of female directors on corporate boards.Read the article 

In this article by CBS Professor Jonathan Glover and E. Kim, the authors study optimal team design. Read the article  

A new report by Columbia Business School’s Center on Global Brand Leadership explores the common challenges to innovation across industries, particularly in agriculture, construction, and transportation, and offers strategies to help companies overcome these barriers.

Young Columbia Business School alumni leaders across the globe and from diverse industries shared their thoughts and insights on how to best position themselves in their family businesses. They also gave students invaluable advice on what they can do now to pave a successful path for themselves at their family businesses in the future.