The 1st Family Business and Corporate Control Workshop

The first edition of the Family Business and Corporate Control Workshop will be held at Bocconi University from the 26th to the 28th of June 2018.

The Workshop will bring together academic scholars, practitioners and company executives to discuss recent theoretical and applied advances in the area of corporate control, with a specific focus on family businesses, private equity and institutional ownership. The event will feature academic sessions including a selected number of papers from established and junior scholars who will present their research projects and then engage in general discussions with the audience. Additionally, the event will include an industry panel during which academics and executives will engage in a discussion about the implications of family control and private equity for company performance and growth.

Confirmed academic participants so far include Vicente Cuñat (London School of Economics), Randall Morck (University of Alberta), Yupana Wiwattanakantang (National University of Singapore), Mircea Epure (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Francesco Castellaneta (SKEMA), Carlo Salvato (Bocconi University), Vikas Mehrotra (University of Alberta), Fausto Panunzi (Bocconi University), Josip Kotlar (Lancaster University), Alessandro Minichilli, (Bocconi University), Daniela Scur (University of Oxford) and Gianfranco Siciliano (Bocconi University). The industry panel will feature the participation of several entrepreneurs and owners of leading Italian companies. The general audience will include entrepreneurs, business students and faculty members from Italian and foreign universities.