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Family firms are always growing, adapting, and changing. Little is straightforward in a family enterprise, where the natural interaction of family dynamics and economics together creates exceedingly high stakes. Challenges to success and longevity can arise from every direction, shifting as the business matures and new generations enter. Across the transitions that family enterprises face\u2013whether succession in ownership or management, changes to governance structures and agreements (both corporate and family), strategic pivots, altered family dynamics, or next generation development\u2014each must be faced with head, heart, and all available resources, including talent. \u00a0<\/p>\n
For nearly 40 years, CFAR has been at the forefront of the effort to systematically understand and help family enterprises. From our origin in the 1980s inside the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where we were the first academic center to offer educational programs to family businesses, to our instrumental role in founding the Family Firm Institute, to our own experience of succession as a private company that now includes a third generation of leadership and ownership\u2026 CFAR knows, admires, and brings committed expertise to this world.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We take a practical, hands-on approach to working with families across the spectrum of the family enterprise from operating companies to family offices to family foundations. Getting to know our clients is our first priority so that you can feel confident that we will move your firm forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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CFAR is proud to deliver our management consulting services to clients, with a commitment to unleashing potential and maximizing impact. We have, for more than three decades, provided guidance and expertise to tackle the thorniest issues\u2014ones often rooted in a misalignment between important organizational goals and individual beliefs about what it will take to achieve them. We come to our work as curious problem-solvers. Our heritage as the Wharton School\u2019s only multi-disciplinary, applied research center lives on in our continued dedication to advising leaders on complex organizational issues where both people and performance matter.<\/p>\nWe hope you’ve enjoyed this article. While you’re here, we have a small favor to ask…<\/em><\/h4>\n
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