Doug Baumoel, MBA, has spent the majority of his career in and around family businesses, having served as a second-generation executive in his own family’s business and holding key posts in other family operated companies both in the US and abroad. Widely respected for his insights on leadership, governance, succession and conflict management in family enterprise, he writes and speaks extensively, and is the Founding Partner of Continuity LLC, a global firm working with family businesses and their stakeholders. Educated in engineering at Cornell and with an MBA from Wharton, he holds a number of distinctions including Fellow of the National Association of Corporate Directors and the Family Firm Institute (FFI). He is co-author, with Blair Trippe, of Deconstructing Conflict: Understanding Family Business, Shared Wealth and Power.
I have a lot of experience getting into my family's business. I did it four times. The first time, I graduated Cornell Engineering in '78. I went to work at Polaroid in Boston. My career was going great. I was working actually with Dr. Land in his private laboratories. Everything was great. Th...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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