Family Owned Business Institute
401 Fulton St. W, suite 386C
Grand Rapids, MI 49504
Phone: 616-331-7200
Fax: 616-331-7583
email: fobi@gvsu.edu
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Welcome to FOBI
The Grand Valley State University's Family Owned Business Institute's mission is to promote, preserve, influence, and impact family businesses through quality academic research, curriculum, and information services. This web resource is designed to serve the needs of family businesses, researchers and scholars in the field of family business. The site offers a wide array of resources that allow you to conduct all your research from one easy-to-access online source. Through this web resource, you can explore central issues in family business from succession planning, to international university curriculum. This massive source of information has been acquired through numerous resources such as journals, books, magazines, databases, library indexes, and so much more. We filter each of these, and analyze critical data relating to family businesses. From here, we then organize all of this information to make it easy for you to find exactly what you're looking for!
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2010 Family Enterprise Research Conference
FERC 2010 FERC will be held April 16-18, Cancun, Mexico.The 2010 FERC theme celebrates the concept of trust which is a critical component in the sustainability of family firms. This concept can be traced back in the family business literature to Prof. Miguel Angel Gallo who identified trust as the defining characteristic of family firms. Relax not only reflects the location for the 2010 conference, but more importantly, relaxing is a behavioral outcome derived from the tacit knowledge that family members have similar values and ethics that guide both the family and the firm. That is, because they trust, they can relax. HBR's June, 2009 issue has a special section on Rebuilding Trust indicating the need for TRUST in this economically challenging time. |
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Events
The Middle East Family Office & Investment Workshop
Dubai,
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
The Families in Business Conference
India,
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
The Best Gift You Can Give Your Family and Yourself is a Succession Plan for Your Family Business
Columbus, Ohio
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Family Business 2.0 - Is Facebook really a business tool?
Burlington, Vermont
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Integrated Assessment Profiling Seminar
Paddington,
Thursday, January 21, 2010
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