Resources

Other sites of selected university based Family Business Centers

• McCann Consulting Group, a firm dedicated to helping family businesses address issues and recognize potential challenges they may face. Our mission is to work with families that own businesses with the intent to help them optimize family involvement, successfully manage transitions, and develop the next generation.
• Knowledge @ Wharton is an excellent website and email subscription that analyzes business trends, has interviews with industry leaders, explains recent busienss research.http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/
• Western Mass Economic Development Council brings the region’s public and private sector leaders together with the focus of expanding economic opportunity throughout the Pioneer Valley, providing a broad array of services to prospective businesses and organizations interested in the area, as well as existing expanding companies, helping them find funding and networking resources to stimulate expansion.
• Family Business Wiki s the "Wikipedia" for family business -- a free family business encyclopedia built collaboratively. Anyone can create new articles or edit articles.
• Family Office Exchange serves as a resource for families of exceptional wealth to help develop understanding of wealth management issues.
• Family Business Institute When it comes to family companies, business operations often get in the way of harmonious family life, and dysfunctional family patterns get in the way of harmonious business life. Family Business Institute provides complete solutions to help family businesses maximize their family and organizational success.
• WEB DuBois library Business Research Collection
• UMass Amherst Continuing & Professional Education
• Giombetti Associates/ Performance Dynamics (discover your inner effective executive)
• UMass Amherst Isenberg School of Management
• Liebowitz & Assoc, PC; Executive Management and Organizational Development very wise articles and services
• Kids & Money: Making Kids Financially Savvy (what's your childhood allowance worth in today's dollars?)
• Shel Horowitz: Journalist and Frugalist Extraordinaire
• Dean Fowler Associates Family business consultants specializing in the emotional dynamics which impact business success
• MoneyCafe.com® -- The Independent Financial Portal serving-up the best mortgages, auto loans, credit cards, insurance and financial resources since 1995
• The Kellogg-Recanati Executive MBA Handbook a valuable site for past, present and future MBAs
• Massachusetts Institute for Social and Economic Research (aka MISER -great info resource)
• Amherst Common (discover Amherst, Mass.)
• The New York Times: Business
• A Vast Array of Personality and IQ Tests
• de Visscher & Co. Architects of creative and unique financial solutions for family owned and closely held businesses
• EntreWorld: Resources for Entrepreneurs
• Winning Workplaces is a not-for-profit providing information, training, ideas, consulting, and easy-to-use affordable tools to help small and midsize organizations create great workplaces.
• Hidden Hills of Western Massachusetts
• ParentPreneurClub
• The Small Business Research Portal (U.K.)
• Boardroom Basics (devoted to the professional governance of organizations)
• The Family Business Bookstore (Family Business Magazine)
• Small Business Survival Center (Business Journal)
• TimeManagement4U.com helps businesspeople put time on their side and get more out of business and family life.
• 3D Tours of Various Parts of the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts
• Small Business And Government Grants Info: A comprehensive free resource packed with dozens of guides, tools and techniques
• Government Grants 101: The authoritative resource of small business and government grants advice