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创立: The centre's about page states it was founded in 1987 by Dr Craig Aronoff within the Coles College of Business. It is commonly described as the oldest university-based family business centre; its own landing page says it has operated for over 40 years, which does not reconcile exactly with a 1987 founding.
The Family Enterprise Center sits in Kennesaw State University's Coles College of Business and was founded in 1987 by Craig Aronoff, which makes it one of the earliest university-based family business centres anywhere. Its founding idea, that family business owners learn most from each other, produced the Family Business Forum, an early peer group format that the centre still runs twice a year, and the Georgia Family Business of the Year awards, which it operated from 1992 to 2020. Later directors extended the work: Joseph Astrachan built an executive MBA curriculum for family enterprise leaders, and Gaia Marchisio added advisor workshops and a nine-month online programme for next-generation leaders. Membership today is sold in two tiers, both priced per business: Core at $1,000 a year for workshops, webinars, a speaker series, a resource library and educational discounts, and Signature at $2,500 for four Forum seats, monthly peer group membership, a Family Business Roadmap, more staff office hours, next-generation engagement and talent exchange. Peer groups are described as confidential, facilitated and monthly.
运作方式
A family business joins at one of two annual price points. Core membership provides open programming: workshops, webinars, a speaker series, the resource library, discounts on Kennesaw State education, open house tours of member businesses and three staff office-hours sessions. Signature membership adds the things that need places reserved: four seats at each of the twice-yearly Family Business Forums, monthly confidential facilitated peer groups, a Family Business Roadmap of expert-guided sessions, six office-hours sessions, and access to the NextGen student group and talent exchange. The centre asks prospective members to schedule a conversation before joining.
典型会员
Members are family businesses rather than individuals, at a range of sizes and stages; the centre notes that membership is expected to move between tiers as a business changes. The next-generation side reaches Kennesaw State students from family businesses through a student group and a talent exchange with member companies.
会员资格要求
详细要求及历史沿革 →资格要求是指该组织自行发布的评定标准：年龄上限、公司营收下限、净资产最低要求、职位要求。如某项数据跨越某一区间，以该组织自身的判断为准。各地分会可采用比公开标准更严格的要求。
| 标准 | 已公布要求 | 来源出处 |
|---|---|---|
| 其他标准 | Membership is open to family businesses; no revenue, generation or ownership threshold is published | 已验证 September 2026高度置信来源 ↗ |
| 地域限制 | Programming is delivered at Kennesaw State University in metropolitan Atlanta, which in practice limits membership to Georgia and the surrounding region | 已验证 September 2026中等置信度来源 ↗ |
| 其他标准 | Monthly peer groups are available to Signature members only | 已验证 September 2026高度置信来源 ↗ |
已发布标准以图示日期为核实时间。最终资格认定及入会决定权完全归属于 Family Enterprise Center at Kennesaw State University. 查看您与这些标准的对比情况 →
入会费在加入时一次性缴纳，会费则定期收取。分会会费、营地活动、差旅及活动费用通常为额外支出，如该组织有所披露，将单独列出。各项数据以发布或报道时为准，并非报价。
| 费用 | 首年 | 三年 | 来源出处 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 年度会费每年 | $1,000 | $3,000 | 已验证 September 2026高度置信来源 ↗ | |
| 年度会费每年 | $2,500 | alternative tier, not added | 已验证 September 2026高度置信来源 ↗ | |
| 入会费 | No initiation fee is published. | |||
| 项目费用 | Not publicly disclosed: the centre does not publish separate prices for the Family Business Forum, peer groups, the Family Business Roadmap or Family Business Boost; these are bundled into Signature membership or quoted on enquiry. | 来源 ↗ | ||
| 估算总计，仅披露数据 | $1,000 | $3,000 | 未计入: Annual dues (alternative tier, not added), Initiation fee, Programme fee. | |
架构与项目设置
独立背景信息
For $1,000 to $2,500 a year this is among the cheapest structured family business memberships available, and the tiering is honest about what the money buys: Core is access to open programming, Signature is where the peer group and the reserved Forum seats sit. The centre's research and executive education lineage is genuinely deep (the Family Business Forum format and the Georgia awards were early enough to have shaped how other centres were built) but the current public materials are thin on operational detail. Peer group size, facilitator background, Forum agendas and the Family Business Roadmap are all described in general terms with no figures, and member counts are not published. The Georgia awards ended in 2020 and have not visibly been replaced. Anyone tracking the organisation should also note the name: current pages say Family Enterprise Center, older material and the university calendar still say Cox.
编辑分析，作者： Peer Group Guide editors. 此内容与上方记录相互独立，位于其后 编辑政策.
类似组织
按需求分类的替代选项 →出现于: Groups for family-business owners: federations, national bodies, university centres
历史与变更
全站变更日志 →- milestoneFamily Enterprise Center founded by Dr Craig Aronoff within the Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University ↗
- milestoneGeorgia Family Business of the Year awards launched; the centre ran them until 2020 ↗
- milestoneGeorgia Family Business of the Year awards conclude after 28 years ↗
由该组织公开发布或由具名来源报道的重要节点。"记录"条目指本站对该组织自身记录的变更，保存于公开变更日志中，而非覆盖原有内容。
迈出下一步
来源
- Family Enterprise Center — Coles College of Business, Kennesaw State University. 访问时间 6 September 2026.层级 1
- About Family Enterprise Center — Coles College of Business, Kennesaw State University. 访问时间 6 September 2026.层级 1
- Programs and Events — Family Enterprise Center, Kennesaw State University. 访问时间 6 September 2026.层级 1
- Family Enterprise Center Membership — Coles College of Business, Kennesaw State University. 访问时间 6 September 2026.层级 2
来源等级遵循以下公开层级：1 官方网站 · 2 官方会员材料 · 3 申请文件 · 4 年度报告 · 5 政府备案文件 · 6 可靠的商业出版物 · 7 有据可查的访谈 · 8 其他信誉良好的二手资料。 来源与数据政策.
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