ENTR 4501 - Managing and Growing Family Businesses (3 cr.)

This course will examine the causes and consequences of the creation of family fortunes, with a focus on the practical implications for family decision-making and how to create an institutional organization. The course will address challenges facing the family business with an insight on the succession planning and governance. The course will present several case studies of successful family business as well as failures with a stress on the cultural aspects associated with the local Egyptian one. The course also discusses the organizational behavior issues related to family businesses and what are their impacts on the business sustainability.

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