The Enduring Enterprise

Auteur

Devin DeCiantis is the Managing Partner at Lansberg Gersick Advisors (LGA), a trusted advisory and educational partner to the world’s leading family enterprises. Raised in Toronto, Canada, he holds a master’s degree from the Kennedy School at Harvard with a focus in finance and economics, as well as a bachelor’s in business administration from York University. Devin has advised private- and public-sector leaders throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, and has taught at Harvard University, Yale University, and Northwestern University. His writing has also been featured in the Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, and The Walrus. 
 
Ivan Lansberg is the co-founder at LGA, where he advises complex family enterprises worldwide. Over the last four decades, he has made significant contributions to the understanding of family business governance and succession. He was one of the founders of the Family Firm Institute (FFI) and the first editor of its professional journal, Family Business Review. After receiving bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from Columbia University, Lansberg taught at the Columbia Graduate School of Business. He became a professor of organizational behavior at the Yale School of Organization and Management for seven years before going into consulting. His books Succeeding Generations and Generation to Generation were both published by Harvard Business School Press and have been widely praised as landmark works. Lansberg is a frequent speaker at family business programs organized by universities and industry groups. He is on the faculty of the Kellogg School of Management.

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"In The Enduring Enterprise consultants Ivan Lansberg and Devin DeCiantis bring readers into the lives of developing world capitalists who rely on traditional family business structures to survive. The bulk of the world's growth in population and economic activity in the foreseeable future will be generated in the developing world. Enterprising families in emerging and frontier markets thrive under high-risk conditions, including war, environmental disasters and more. But developed countries will increasingly experience these types of structural shocks and chronic uncertainties. Drawing on real cases from around the world, the authors provide business leaders everywhere with new and unique adaptive strategies to help them face a world of greater uncertainty and volatility"--