What do entrepreneurs become when they have a long-term personal relationship, get married, and/or have children? Their businesses mature Into family firms. What do entrepreneurial study centers do when they realize the above? They see an opportunity to start a family business program. What do accounting and legal firms do to try to reach this market? They sponsor a program. What happens to a psychologist, turned entrepreneur professor, who becomes Involved in a family business program? He Is resurrected as a family business professional. The focus of this paper Is the lessons learned during the journey towards developing a unique family business program as part of an entrepreneurial studies center In a major research university.
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