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Matt R. Allen is Associate Professor in the Entrepreneurship Division, and family fellow in the Institute for Family Entrepreneurship at Babson College. His expertise is in the effective management of human capital within entrepreneurial environments, especially family enterprises. His current research is focused on the role of the family in the entrepreneurial process and how to build entrepreneurialcapability across generations. Matt designed and is leading the Family Entrepreneurship Amplifier program, a one-of-a-kind education program for business families that engages students and their families in the learning process in order to build entrepreneurial capability.
William B. Gartner is the Bertarelli Foundation Distinguished Professor of Family Entrepreneurship at Babson College. He is recognized as a leading scholar in the field of entrepreneurship by such awards as: the 2005 Swedish Entrepreneurship Foundation International Award for outstanding contributions to entrepreneurship and small business research; the 2013 Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division Foundational Paper Award; and the 2016 Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division Dedication to Entrepreneurship Award. His scholarship spans a wide array of topics in the entrepreneurship field: entrepreneurship as practice, the social construction of the future, varieties of value creation and appropriation, translating entrepreneurship across cultures and countries, the poetics of exchange, the demographics of entrepreneurial families, and, the nature of legacy in family entrepreneurship.
1 The Secrets of Successful Entrepreneurial Families: Insights
from the World's Experts on Multi-Generational
Entrepreneurial Families
Part I Characteristics of the Entrepreneurial Family
2 Family Capital: The Key to Entrepreneurial and Family Success
3 The Essential Role of Trust in Family Business
Entrepreneurship
4 Managing Legacy, Achievement and Identity in
Entrepreneurial Families
5 Discerning the Importance and Nature of the Family System
in Relation to the Family Firm: A Paradigm Shift
Part II Preparing the New Generation of Family Entrepreneurs
6 Can Entrepreneurship Be Continued from One Generation to
the Next? The Answer to that Question Can Be Found in the
7 Tilling the Soil-And Wait and See How the Next Generation
Develops
Part III Developing Entrepreneurial Leaders
8 Sustaining a Multi-Generational Family Enterprise Through
Ambidextrous Leadership
9 The Importance of Externally Focused Self-awareness to
Family Entrepreneurship
Part IV Advancing Family Entrepreneurship
Families Nurture Agency and Kindle the Dreams of the Next
Generation
11 Who Do You Think You Are? Who Do They Think You Are?
12 From Family Businesses to Entrepreneurial Families: Tacit
Knowledge at the Core of Entrepreneurial Learning
13 The Successor Conundrum: A Moral Dilemma
14 Family Entrepreneurship Education: Where Are We? Where
Do We Need to Go from Here?
Part V Establishing the Entrepreneurial Family
the Rising Generation
16 Gathering Multiple Generations at the Dining Room: The
Secret Toward an Entrepreneurial Family Continuity
17 Two Sides of the Same Coin-How Intra-Family
Communication Affects Entrepreneurial Spirit over
Generations in Family Businesses
18 The Family Business University: How to Live, Create and Tell
Part VI Fostering Family Entrepreneurs
19 Nurturing the Next-Generation Family Entrepreneurs in the
Business Family
20 Upping Your Family's Entrepreneurial Game
Part VII The Future of Family Entrepreneurship
21 Fostering Entrepreneurialism and Intrapreneurialism Within
the Family Enterprise System
22 From Allocators to Acquirers: The Family Investing Model and
23 Because Family Cares: Building Engagement for Family
Entrepreneurship Through Sustainability
24 Social Capital, Entrepreneurship, and Family Businesses
