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John A. Davis is a Senior Lecturer in Family Enterprise at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is a globally recognized pioneer and authority on issues related to the family enterprise, family wealth, and the family office.
- Future Family Enterprise Program: Plan for Generations
Join MIT Sloan faculty John Davis and Jason Jay for a live...
- Family Enterprise: Latest Strategies to Build Value Across ...
During our recent webinar, Family Enterprise: Latest...
- Making family business our business | MIT News ...
“Family companies perform significantly better in terms of...
- John A. Davis | ILP
John A. Davis is a Senior Lecturer in the Family Enterprise...
- Future Family Enterprise Program: Plan for Generations
A renowned academic and shaper of the family business field, Professor Davis leads the family enterprise portfolio of programs at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He teaches family business management, family office performance, family entrepreneurship, and strategies for family enterprises to position themselves for the future.
- There Are Two Possible Outcomes For A Family
- Causes of Family Derailment
- The Key Determinant Is Resilience
- Resilience Is Needed Today More Than Ever
- Why Family Resilience?
- Help Your Family Develop Resilience
- Resilience Builds on Itself
Adversity and crisis can either lead a family and its enterprise into decline, or into renewal and regeneration. It can go either way. If you are not resilient, a crisis or prolonged adversity can more likely divide family members, derail family functioning and decision making, create lasting divisions, and destroy value. If you are resilient, adve...
It’s easy to understand how crisis situations or periods of prolonged adversity can cause families or other groups to have difficulties. Crisis situations like we are in now can easily produce these outcomes: Family members can feel considerable anxiety about their circumstances. Some anxiety is needed to respond well to problems but too much anxie...
The key determinant of decline or regeneration (besides external forces and luck) is the presence or not of resiliencein a group. Resilience is the capability of an individual or group to get through and recover well from prolonged adversity, important setbacks, or crises. Resilience is created by having adequate resources, useful structures to sup...
Around 2000, we entered a new age, which is ushering in more frequent and more volatile disruptions to industries, societies, companies, and families. It is common to describe today’s environment, borrowing from military parlance, as VUCA: Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous. Accelerating changes in technology along with increased globaliza...
We definitely need to build the resilience of the enterprising families behind family companies and family offices. The family is the ultimate foundation for a family enterprise—even more fundamental than the family owners. The ability of a family business to survive long-term depends greatly on the ability of the family to: If your family is not r...
How resilient is your family? How does your family deal with prolonged adversity, setbacks or crisis? What are you doing to help your family learn from this period and grow in capability? Your family’s goal should be not to just cope with the adversity it faces, but to grow stronger as a result of it. Your objective is that strengths come out of th...
Getting through tough situations together as a family helps build the confidence, trust, pride, relationships, unity, and skills to face new challenges and rebound from the next crisis. Resilience builds on itself. It’s a virtuous cycle. _____________________ With an appreciative nod to Gabriel García Márquez and his literary classic, Love in the T...
Join MIT Sloan faculty John Davis and Jason Jay for a live conversation about their latest insights on two emerging trends: how an owner strategy and systemic investing are being put to use by families to grow value, develop family talent, and build family unity across generations.
Mar 8, 2024 · During our recent webinar, Family Enterprise: Latest Strategies to Build Value Across Generations, MIT Sloan faculty John Davis and Jason Jay shared their latest research on two emerging trends: how an Owner Strategy and Systemic Investing are being put to use by families to grow value, develop family talent, and build family unity across ...
Feb 28, 2019 · “Family companies perform significantly better in terms of sustainability, profitability, and growth of all kinds when compared to non-family businesses,” says John Davis, a globally recognized authority and pioneer in the field of family enterprise.
John A. Davis is a Senior Lecturer in the Family Enterprise Executive Programs at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is a globally recognized pioneer and authority on issues related to the family enterprise, family wealth, and the family office.