We offer courses and a concentration in family enterprising that is highly experiential and addresses the growth and change issues of students and their family businesses. Our mentoring environment gives students a hands-on experience with family business leaders and professors. Our coaching approach facilitates student’s personal and professional reflection about their family business and their careers.

Our courses are designed for students from family businesses as well as for students who ultimately might work for a family business and will benefit from an understanding of family-business dynamics. Students can gain wide range of learning experiences, including assessing and consulting in family business companies, involving their personal family’s business.

Undergraduate Curriculum 

First Year Experience Seminar 2004-2005: Family Enterprising Section

Entrepreneurship: The Key to Family Business Success (EPS3515)

Powerful Practices in Family Enterprising: Strategies and Structures for Stimulating Innovation in Family Groups.

We now offer a Family Enterprising Concentration. Interested students are required to take a fundamental Entrepreneurship course, a core Family Enterprising course, one of two specific Family Enterprising electives, and one additional elective in the areas of Family Enterprising, Entrepreneurship, or Management. A cohort version of the Family Enterprising Concentration is planned which will not only involve students, but also encompass the student’s family and family company. 

Graduate Curriculum

Leading Change and Growth in Closely-Held Family Companies (EPS7515)

Entrepreneurship: The Key to Family Business Success (EPS7570)

Parents’ Weekend
Recognizing the importance of parental involvement in our unique program, we invite the families of our family business students to campus twice a year for a special Parents’ Weekend. These weekends provide learning opportunities, an open discussion venue, and networking for parents.

Spring Semester: April 21-23, 2006
An Entrepreneurial Strategy Perspective on Growth and Change: Creating New Streams of Value

For additional information on our curriculum or parents’ weekend, please email ife@babson.edu.