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Ivey’s Business Families Centre is committed to helping family-controlled businesses remain entrepreneurial, a key factor in ensuring long term viability, and to fostering deeper understanding of the strengths and challenges of the business, the family and the complex relationship that ties one to the other.
Six years ago Canadian success story Spin Master, whose toys are sold in more than 50 countries, made the decision not just to continue going global but to become a truly international Company.
Ivey hosts symposium to examine the strategies needed to build a successful medical technologies industry and improve healthcare worldwide
London, ON - May 26th 2011
New technologies are vital in helping patients get better faster and stay healthier longer, but too many of these technologies never make it to market or become widely adopted.
David Simpson
Director, Business Families Centre
Richard Ivey School of Business
Optimism and her evil twin pessimism are human emotions that pack a powerful economic punch in the lifecycle of private companies. Consumer sentiment can either send a company’s prospects soaring or fatally wound an entrepreneur’s dream—often with little direct correlation with the firm’s actual business prospects.
What makes for a successful business owner or entrepreneur during transformational economic times? While 2011 was proclaimed the year of the entrepreneur, the current market conditions and new competition will keep entrepreneurs on their toes. As the Canadian economy shows signs of economic improvement, what can we learn from the sentiment of Canada’s leading entrepreneurs?