Learn how to better handle the challenges of being a successor family member in the business

• A new program to serve the needs of family businesses.
• An opportunity to meet in a group setting with other Sons and Daughters of Bosses (successors) for continuing education on topics of mutual interest

This group is facilitated by Michael Stern and is open to members of the UConn Family Business Program
Call 203-775-5501

Participants will

• Learn from each other
• Develop a network of people to call upon
• Meet people with common issues of being a family member in the business
• Learn about how to successfully perpetuate the business
• Learn about the problems and successes of being in a family business
• Talk about family business/small business issues with other companies
• Learn how to better actively manage relationships with other family members
• Learn about succession planning
• Meet with family business experts

Would you like to learn more about:

• Managing growth

• How to separate business and family life---and be successful in both
• How to motivate employees
• Estate planning
• The pitfalls to avoid in a family business

Addiction in the Family Business

a research paper by Michael Stern

The family has been widely acknowledged to have a significant role in the origin, maintaining, and treatment of drug addiction. A unique set of factors appear when the family structure involves family members working together in a family-owned business. In work as director of an outpatient treatment program, we had a significant population of patients who were sons working in family-owned businesses. It is tough for fathers and sons to be in