Developing Family Business Policies: Your Guide to the Future

This book lays out what many successful family businesses do to ensure prosperity. They develop policies and shareholder agreements through a process that builds unity of vision, commitment, and good feelings about the business.

Craig E. Aronoff and John L. Ward have long been recognized as leaders in the family business field. Founding principals of the Family Business Consulting Group, they work with hundreds of family businesses around the world. Recipients of the Family Firm Institute's Beckhard Award for outstanding contributions to family business practice, they have spoken to family business audiences on every continent. Their books include Family Business Sourcebook II, and the three-volume series The Future of Private Enterprise.

Craig E. Aronoff, Ph.D., holds the Dinos Distinguished Chair of Private Enterprise and is professor of management at Kennesaw State University (Atlanta). He founded and directs the university's Family Enterprise Center. The center focuses on education and research for family businesses, and its programs have been emulated by more than 100 universitites worldwide. In addition to his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and Masters from the University of Pennsylvania, he holds a Ph.D. in organizational communication from the University of Texas.

John L. Ward, Ph.D., is the Ralph Marotta Professor of Private Enterprise at Loyola University Chicago. He teaches strategic management and business leadership at Loyola's Graduate School of Business, and is a regular visiting lecturer at two European business schools. He has previously been dean of undergraduate business at Loyola and a senior associate with Strategic Planning Institute (PIMS Program) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A graduate of Northwestern University (B.A.) and Stanford Graduate School of Business (M.B.A. and Ph.D.), his Keeping the Family Business Healthy and Creating Effective Boards for Private Enterprises are leading books in the family business field.

Joseph H. Astrachan, Ph.D., a principal of The Family Business Consulting Group, is the Wachovia Chair of Family Business, associate director and research director of the Family Enterprise Center at Kennesaw State University. He received a lifetime achievement award for his research on family business from the International Family Business Program Association. Astrachan is editor of "Family Business Review", a scholarly publication of the "Family Firm Institute".