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Creating Legacies: This series explores enduring family businesses, influential art collections, and meaningful philanthropy through the perspectives of those who built them. Each speaker shares the decisions, discipline, and determination behind preserving something worth passing on.
The great family enterprises of history were not built in calm waters; they were forged in chaos. War, inflation, political collapse, technological upheaval: the families that survived generation after generation did so not by avoiding disruption but by being built differently from the inside out. Devin DeCiantis, faculty member at Kellogg and one of the world’s leading advisors on family enterprise, will reveal what sets these rare, enduring families apart, and what any family can learn from them. Drawing on research and his book The Enduring Enterprise, he will offer a practical and provocative look at the hidden architecture of family resilience: the decisions, structures, and mindsets that transform a family business from a fragile inheritance into a legacy.