2023 - Innovations for a Sustainable Family Business: Twist on Tradition

Sustainable Innovations in Family Businesses: Challenges, Opportunities and Possibilities
Brought to you in partnership with the Family Owned Business Institute and the Koeze Business Ethics Initiative.

Join us for a robust discussion on the many facets of sustainability in family organizations. Hear from field experts and local family business leaders on practical implementations of sustainable strategies, and walk away with tangible ways to begin. 

Business families aspiring for transgenerational continuity and success understand the need to balance the economic, social and ecological impacts of their enterprises. They seek to understand how to find innovative solutions to address global challenges, while continuing to generate profit. The choices regarding sustainability may be confusing. Practical questions such as Why, How, When and Where to embed sustainable development principles into their businesses will be addressed. Join experts from around the country as this hands-on program will focus on family businesses learning, analyzing, and discussing with experts and peers how to start and/or strengthen their sustainability journey.

Speakers:

PramoDITA Sharma is the Schlesinger-Grossman Chair of Family Business at the Grossman School of Business, University of Vermont. She is a visiting scholar at the Family Business Centers at Kellogg School of Management, USA and Indian School of Business, India, and is an advisory board member of the Jönköping International Business School (JIBS), Sweden. Dita served as the editor of Family Business Review from 2008-2017. Her research on succession, governance, innovation, next generation commitment, entrepreneurial leadership and sustainability in/by family enterprises is published in over fifty articles and ten books. Pioneering Business Families of Sustainable Development is her most recent book.



James H. Davis is the Buehler Endowed Professor of Management, Chairman of the Marketing and Strategy Department and director of Executive Education in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University. Prior to Utah State he was the John F. O’Shaughnessy Professor of Family Enterprises and a Professor of Strategic Management in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame for over twenty-five years beginning in 1991. He has worked with many major national and multinational corporations and family businesses throughout the world on strategic planning and positioning. His research interests and publications are in the areas of corporate governance, strategic decision-making, trust and strategic alliances.



​Mark T. Green is a family business consultant, speaker, author, educator, and researcher. Mark is co-founder of the Pacific Family Business Institute and leads his own family business consulting firm. He consults on family business issues such as succession, governance, strategy, conflict resolution, and leadership. Previously, Mark was a principal with the Family Business Consulting Group based in Chicago and the A.E. Coleman Chair in Family Business and the Director of the Austin Family Business Program at Oregon State University. He co-founded the Family Enterprise Research Conference (FERC) in 2005 and served as chair of the Educator and Research Conference for the Family Firm Institute. Mark authored Inside the Multi-Generational Family Business, published by Palgrave Macmillan and has authored or co-authored more than 20 academic journals, book chapters, and book reviews.