FFI Collaborations Promote Education and Research in the Field

Prepared Exclusively for FFI Members

February 28, 2020

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FI is committed to the education and advancement of future generations of family enterprise academics and advisors. This commitment is highly visible with three collaborations in 2020.

FECC at UVM

The first of these collaborations took place in mid-January in Burlington, VT, with the University of Vermont Grossman School of Business’ Family Enterprise Case Competition (FECC). Organized by FFI Fellow Pramodita Sharma and her colleagues, this year’s competition included 18 teams from 11 countries. Here are some of the results:

Graduate League Winner

First place winner in the graduate division was the Universidad Francisco Marroquin, Panama.

Undergraduate League Winner

First place winner in the undergraduate division was Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada.

view all results from FECC 2020

FFI Participants in the Graduate and Undergraduate League Division

FFI members competing in the Graduate League were ESADE, FFI Fellow Maria Jose Parada, coach; Indian School of Business, Nupur Pavan Bang, coach, whose colleague Navneet Bhatnagar writes précis for the FFI Practitioner; and University of Adelaide, Australia, Frank Barbera, coach and also a GEN faculty member. Columbia University, Camille Korschun, coach and GEN graduate, competed in the Undergraduate League Division.

Frank Barbera
University of Adelaide

Camille Korschun
Columbia University

Maria Jose Parada
ESADE Business School

The Cases

The Case selection committee included FFI Fellow Elle Hansen, STEP member Albert James, independent case expert, scholar, and FFI member Ken Moores, and was chaired by Mira Blomen-Bekx of the Netherlands. Recipients were the following:

Pentland Group: A Family of Brands by Marta Widz and Benoit Leleux, IMD, Switzerland
De Agostini, Repurposing the Business and the Family by Marta Widz and Benoit Leleux, IMD, Switzerland, and Guido Corbetta, Bocconi University, Italy
Red Collar Group by Jean Lee and Liman Zhao, CEIBS, China
Baucentrum: Compensation and Governance in the Family Firm by Stephen Sapp, Ivey School of Business, Canada

FFI Participants

Case Authors

Case Selection Committee

Guido Corbetta
Bocconi University

Marta Widz
IMD Global Family Business Center

Elle Hansen
ReGENERATION

Ken Moores
Moores Family Enterprise

Case Authors

Guido Corbetta
Bocconi University

Marta Widz
IMD Global Family Business Center

Case Selection Committee

Elle Hansen
ReGENERATION

Ken Moores
Moores Family Enterprise

The Judges

More than 50 judges participated in this competition. FFI members were Patricia Angus, Luis Jimenez, Steve Legler, Randy Waesche, and Marta Widz.

Patricia Angus
Columbia University

Luis Jimenez
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Steve Legler
TSI Heritage

Randy Waesche
Resource Management, LLC

Marta Widz
IMD Global Family Business Center

Call for Cases

The 2021 event is open with a due date of July 1, 2020

Learn more

Interested in fielding a team for 2021?

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FFI Collaborations Coming Up

Best Paper on Family Business Award to be presented at EURAM (European Academy of Management) in June in Dublin
Best Paper on Family Business Award to be presented at ACIEK (Academy of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Knowledge) in June in Madrid

Previous Edition

Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to report that the FFI board of directors and the 2020 Global Conference planning committee held a series of meetings earlier this month to further the strategic goals of the organization and to put in place the final plans for the October 28–30 conference in New York at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square.

Here are some highlights.