Guest collaborator: Dominique Nelson (MBA ’26) President of the MBA Family Business Club The Legacy & Future Family Business Conference grew out of an amazing experience shared by a group of IESE MBA students, all members of the Family Business Club. In March, more than twenty of us traveled to Harvard Business School for the…

Guest contributor: Tarek el Sehity Tarek el Sehity is a researcher and lecturer at Sigmund Freud University in Vienna. As explored in the first article of this two-part series, core family values represent a central differentiating factor between family and non-family enterprises, as well as a strategic driver. Rather than a static, top-down process, our…

If you want to understand global work in 2025, start where very few people actually look: the chips. Stephen Witt’s book, The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip, which I just finished reading, is part biography, part business history, part supply-chain thriller. It traces how Nvidia—founded in 1993, reportedly brainstormed…

Guest contributor: Tarek el Sehity Tarek el Sehity is a researcher and lecturer at Sigmund Freud University in Vienna. “For things to remain the same, everything must change.” Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard This enduring wisdom captures a fundamental truth for business families that have withstood the test of time: preserving the values that…