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This June, the Family Business Center welcomed two cohorts of HEC Paris Summer School participants and launched the Family Business Voices Challenge, inviting students to interview their own family business and uncover the pivotal moments, and sometimes the hard calls, that shaped its story.
The HEC Paris Dieter Schwarz Foundation Center for Family Business is pleased to share a new article published in Family Business Magazine, one of North America's most influential practitioner outlets, by Léa Wang, Cécile de Lisle and Laurent Allard.
On May 18–19, 2026, part of our team traveled to Heilbronn for a two-day joint research workshop with the TUM Global Center for Family Enterprise. Two days of interdisciplinary exchange, new collaborations, and the start of a lasting Franco-German research dialogue on family business.
On May 29–30, 2026, HEC Paris hosted the inaugural HEC Paris Family Business Summit — a two-day, student-led experience that brought together students and family business leaders from around the world for candid conversation across generations, industries and borders.
The HEC Paris Family Business Center co-organized, with HAATCH, Family & Co, FBN France and the Communauté des entreprises à mission, the second edition of a webinar exploring how family businesses view the mission-driven company status. The program featured insights from Cécile de Lisle (HEC Paris) ...
From June 10 to 12, 2026, the Dieter Schwarz Foundation Family Business Center at HEC Paris took part in the annual conference of IFERA (International Family Enterprise Research Academy) in Naples, one of the world's leading venues for research on family enterprises.
In light of Shakespeare's King Lear — Investissement Conseils no. 892, June 2026 — C. Nicolas, A. Bloch, A.-S. Cambay (FR)
The HEC Paris MBA recently hosted the elective "Leading and Owning the Family Enterprise." Before an international cohort, family business proved a subject as global as the audience that came to study it.
From 13 to 18 May 2026, the HEC Paris Family Business Center led a family-business board simulation focused on impact within the Strategy for Impact Certificate.
meaneo White Paper — V. Baschet (H.99) and D. Sensey — Foreword by Cécile de Lisle (in French)
