Teaching Faculty
Timothy Habbershon – Faculty/Founding Director
Dr. Timothy Habbershon is the Founding Director of the Institute for Family Enterprising and holds the President’s Chair in Family Enterprising. He teaches both undergraduates and graduates, and brings his extensive experience in consulting with large global family groups in to the classroom. He is committed to preparing family business students to enter family businesses as professionals and peers with family shareholders and managers. He utilizes a “coaching” style in the classroom that challenges the students to think and act as if they were in a business, not an academic, setting.

Len Green – Faculty/Entrepreneur
Len Green, President and CEO of the Green Group, is an entrepreneur in the truest sense. As an investor and/or partner, his family group is associated with 14 ventures and foundations. Mr. Green brings this extensive “hands-on” knowledge and his family experiences to the classroom. He is known for his creativity and energy, and his classes are always top-rated by students. Read more about Len Green’s family business class here.

Michael McGrann – Assistant Director
Mike McGrann is the Assistant Director at the Institute for Family Enterprising. He serves as the coordinator of outreach programs and teaches extensively in seminars to family businesses. He actively participates in the MBA and undergraduate classes. Mike does extensive consulting to large family businesses and groups specializing in transition and governance strategies for long-run success.

Supporting Faculty 
Les Charm
Kevin Mulvaney
Fred Alper
Julian Lange

Visitng Scholars 
Dr. Thomas Zellweger– University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Thomas Zellweger got his PhD from the University of St. Gallen. His work has been published in several academic journals, amongst others Family Business Review and Financial Markets and Portfolio Management. His PhD thesis was awarded best dissertation in 2006 at the University of St. Gallen and got the Honorable Mention Award at the Family Firm Institute, Boston. Thomas is global Co-Director of the STEP Project and is Research Fellow at Babson College. Thomas Zellweger has studied at the University of St. Gallen and at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. After completion of his studies he was worked in investment banking for two years. He has co-founded and currently directs the Center for Family Business at the University of St. Gallen. Thomas Zellweger's primary research interest is performance, attachment, strategy and long-term success of family firms.

Mattias Nordqvist - Jönköping International Business School, Sweden.
Mattias Nordqvist is Assistant Professor and Co-Director of CeFEO (Center for Family Enterprise and Ownership) at Jönköping International Business School, Sweden where he received his PhD in 2005. He is Visiting Scholar and Co-Director the Global STEP Project at Babson College, USA. He received his PhD from Jönköping International Business School. His research has appeared in journals such as Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Family Business Review, Strategic Organization, Small Business Economics, International Studies in Management and Organization, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research, and the Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings. He is a regular presenter at leading international research conferences and focuses his research on governance, entrepreneurship and strategy, particularly in family business contexts. He was recently selected as a FOBI Scholar for 2007-2008 by The Family Owned Business Institute located at the Seidman College of Business, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids in the USA. Nordqvist's research has been awarded with the FSF-Nutek Award for Outstanding Young Entrepreneurship researcher in Sweden (2006) and with FFI's prize for best unpublished research paper of the year (2005). Mattias teaches strategy, entrepreneurship and family enterprising at undergraduate, master and executive levels since 1999.

Global Partnerships

Research

The STEP Project:  www.STEPProject.org
The STEP Project is a global applied research initiative that explores the entrepreneurial process within business families and generates solutions that have immediate application for family leaders.  STEP currently has established partners conducting research in Europe and Latin America, is about to launch in Asia/Pacific Rim and plans to roll out in the US in 2008. 

Outreach Partnerships

• Grupo Banco Popular – Dominican Republic Seminar Partner, The Familiness Advantage
• Grupo Guayacan

Founding Members
The Institutes Founding Members are committed to family enterprising through their financial support and experiential wisdom.

• The Ratner Family – Ratner Companies
• The Roche Family – Conner Holdings ·
• The Grullon Family – Banco Popular

For more information on our faculty and partnerships, please e-mail ife@babson.edu.