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":[12,117510],"tags":[87878,117528,120270,1339],"class_list":["post-2091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-whats-new","tag-governance","tag-meritocracy","tag-surname-ceiling","tag-talent"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\tThe “surname ceiling” holding back family companies<\/a><\/h2>\n