Why do some professionals hesitate to join family businesses?<\/p>\n
This Financial Times<\/em> article<\/a> explores how family-owned firms compare with non-family companies as employers,<\/strong> drawing on key insights from the 2026 IESE-ECGI Corporate Governance Conference, held at IESE’s Madrid campus in May.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Why do some professionals hesitate to join family businesses? This Financial Times article explores how family-owned firms compare with non-family companies as employers, drawing on key insights from the 2026 IESE-ECGI Corporate Governance Conference, held at IESE’s Madrid campus in May. The “surname ceiling” holding back family companies <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2313,"featured_media":2092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14094,117510],"tags":[87878,117528,120270,1339],"class_list":["post-2091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-featured","category-whats-new","tag-governance","tag-meritocracy","tag-surname-ceiling","tag-talent"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2093,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions\/2093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iese.edu\/family-business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The “surname ceiling” holding back family companies<\/a><\/h2>\n