Family Firm Institute, Inc.
FFI's mission is to be the most influential global network of thought-leaders in the field of family enterprise. We provide research-based learning and relevant tools for advisors and consultants, academics and family enterprise members to drive success.
For over a quarter century, The Family Firm Institute (FFI) has been engaged in educating, connecting, and inspiring professionals who serve family enterprises. FFI is the leading association worldwide for family enterprise professionals and the organization of choice for the advisors, consultants, educators, and researchers who help perpetuate trans-generational family business wealth. In adopting a multidisciplinary and genuinely global perspective, FFI understands family enterprise as a fundamental driver of global economic growth, prosperity, and stability. For its global network of professionals, educators, researchers, and family business members, FFI provides opportunities to participate in multidisciplinary educational programs and earn professional designation; enables collaboration at conferences, seminars and online; and creates a single space for interaction, cross-pollination of ideas, expertise and perspectives to further the field of family enterprise. While families have been in business for what seems like forever, a dedicated "field” of family business—a coherently defined area of systematic inquiry in which family enterprise is a discreet object of study—is surprisingly new. In fact, formal research devoted to family business only emerged in the past 60 years or so. And it was only through the vision of pioneering thinkers such as Barbara Hollander and Dick Beckhard that an inchoate but sorely needed multidisciplinary field was established with the founding of the Family Firm Institute (FFI) in 1986. The continued prominence of the Family Firm Institute is testimony to the vibrant legacy of innovative and visionary thinking about how to understand and serve families in business. Over the course of its successful history, FFI has become the preeminent global forum for practitioners and academics to acquire exemplary interdisciplinary knowledge while engaging in collaborative opportunities that facilitate their professional and business development objectives.
Address: 200 Lincoln Street, #201, Boston, MA 02111, USA
Phone: +1 617 482 3045
FAX: +1 617 482 3049
