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Family Business, Minor

2023-2024 Edition

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A family business is a commercial organization owned or controlled by members of a single family or extended family, including relatives related by blood, marriage, or adoption. Family controlled companies are a dominant form of enterprise worldwide. Due to the inextricable link between family and the business, family firms must grapple with unique challenges in that the business decisions are often intertwined with family dynamics, as in the case of succession planning and corporate governance. The purpose of this minor is to provide insight and understanding of the distinct challenges, opportunities, and practices of family/owner-controlled companies.

The minor covers family and business issues of family firms, including family values and culture, managing conflict, sibling rivalry, entitlement, hiring family and nonfamily employees, management of the family business, facilitating growth and change, and succession planning. This minor is intended for those contemplating a career in a family business and for those who plan to consult or provide professional services to family businesses. It will present both a theoretical framework for understanding the family form of business and a practical perspective on working for, or consulting to, a family/owner-controlled business.

Complete all courses listed below unless otherwise indicated. Also complete any corequisite labs, recitations, clinicals, or tools courses where specified. The minor is not available to D'Amore-McKim School of Business students nor students pursuing a combined major with the D'Amore-McKim School of Business.

Required Course

Course List
Code Title Hours
INNO 2301Innovation!4

Electives

Course List
Code Title Hours
Complete three courses, one of which may be chosen from the additional elective option list:12
ENTR 2215
Understanding Family Enterprise
ENTR 3302
Managing and Growing the Family Business
ENTR 3401
Consulting Operations Growth in SMEs
ENTR 4503
Integrated Studies in Family Business
Additional Electives
ARTG 1250
Design Process Context and Systems
ARTG 3462
Experience Design Principles
CS 4500
Software Development
CS 4520
Mobile Application Development
CS 4550
Web Development
ENTR 1201
The Entrepreneurial Universe
GAME 2010
The Business of Games
GE 1110
Engineering Design (Enginerring Students Only)
GE 5100
Product Development for Engineers (Enginerring Students Only)

GPA Requirement

2.000 GPA required in the minor

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