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The International Kellogg-Recanati Executive MBA Program, a partnership between the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and the Leon Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration at Israel’s Tel Aviv University, offers an online Executive MBA Handbook at http://www.kr04.net.

The website offers summaries—for free—of 27 courses from the executive MBA program, designed for mid-career executives who are preparing for senior management. It features a one-page summary of each course, typically including five key points, as well as a longer description. The summaries, prepared by students, have been approved by the professors, who are senior faculty members of the Kellogg and Recanati schools.

Courses are organized into seven subject areas: marketing, accounting, finance, organizational behavior, general management and strategy, business economics, and statistical decision.

For more information, contact the editor, Stuart Ballan, in Israel at 972-54-319111, fax 972-3-6242321, e-mail: Stuart@msisrael.net.

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If you spend 100 hours or so per week working with members of your gene pool, you probably are more a family business expert than you know. And if you’ve been reading Family Business Magazine, you should be at the head of the class in taking this little quiz we put together for our tenth anniversary. The quiz, by Ira Bryck of the UMass Family Business Center, was published in the Autumn 1999 issue of Family Business.

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Use this quiz from the University of Connecticut Family Business Program to assess whether your company has established a clearly defined policy, instituted strategic planning mechanisms and established the value of the business.

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This checklist, prepared by Marc A. Silverman, Ph.D., principal of Strategic Initiatives Inc., is designed to give you a quick assessment of your family business and to facilitate constructive discussion with your family.

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This quiz, excerpted from the book Keep the Family Baggage Out of the Family Business by Quentin J. Fleming (Fireside, 2000; ©2000 by Quentin J. Fleming), assesses the extent to which family or business systems are driving your business’s actions and is an indicator of your business’s health.

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This checklist by Terry Schaefer, a personal success coach focusing on family business succession issues, guides business owners in starting the dialogue on what needs to be addressed to facilitate an easy transition into their next phase of life.

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