FamilyBusiness
SOLUTIONS HUB
The John L. Ward Center for Family Enterprise – Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
2211 Campus Drive
Suite 3100
Evanston, IL 60208
United States
847-467-7855
Matt Allen
Executive Director
WHO WE ARE
Established in 1999, the John L. Ward Center for Family Enterprises pioneered much of what is known about the collective challenges that family businesses and their leaders and owners face, making the Ward Center synonymous with new ways of thinking about the ownership and leadership of family enterprises. Clinical Professor Emeritus John Ward, along with co-founder Lloyd Shefsky and numerous faculty and staff aligned with the Ward Center, developed a world-class teaching and research center that provides cutting-edge thinking and guidance for family business purpose, vision and strategy, governance, leadership, succession, entrepreneurship in family business, family engagement and cohesion and family business culture.