Today, two out of five Fortune 500 firms are family businesses. (Think Ford Motors and Wal-mart.) The majority of all U.S. companies are owned, operated, or otherwise managed by mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, sons and daughters.

Clearly, family ties can make business strong. But they can also make business more complicated.

The Cox Family Enterprise Center is here to help.

NEWS FLASH:

Fortune Small Business just named Kennesaw State University, Coles College of Business one of the 6 best places in the country for family business education. Listed in the section on America's Best Colleges for Entrepreneurs, the Cox Family Enterprise Center was cited as being on the magazine's honor roll "for work with legacy firms."

Upcoming Events :

Our next Forum event is on June 18, 2008. In this seminar, we will feature Don Vandergriff, an expert in training who has designed and implemented courses for the Navy SEALS and special forces units from domestic and international military services. He will talk to the Forum about Adaptive Leadership: Preparing Leaders for Where the Company Will Be. For more information please call us at 770-423-6045. To register, click here.

The 16th Annual Awards The Georgia Family Business of the Year Awards

The 2008 Awards Gala Dinner will beheld on May 19, 2008 at the Renaissance Waverly Hotel. Please join us as we honor the best in Georgia's businesses. Our featured keynote speaker, Gustavo Zerbino, member of an Uruguyan family business and Director of Cibeles S.A. Mr. Zerbino is a survivor of the 1974 plane crash in the Andes Mountains, on which the movie “Alive” was based. He inspirationally applies lessons of survivorship and leadership to family business. For a list of previous winners click here. For more information or for sponsorship opportunities please contact us at 770-423-6045.

Research Alert

The Family Business Casebook Annual 2007 is now available. Contact us if you would like a copy.