What are we up to?
Between working with client families, teaching, researching, and speaking, there’s always something going on at Generation6.
Events
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10/1-3 CEFEO, led by Massimo Baù, hosts the annual EIASM conference
9/24 Official launch of Anneleen Michiel and Claudia Astrachan’s book ‘Money and Generations’ at Rockefeller Capital in New York City
6/10-13 Family business scholars around the world gather at the annual IFERA conference, the largest event for family business academics.
5/22 Torsten Pieper and Joe Astrachan speak at the FBN Mardi Gras Experience
4/10 - 4/11/2025 | Claudia Binz Astrachan & Joe Astrachan | In-Person | Universidad Francisco Marroquín Minor in Family Business Program | Read more
3/13/25 | Claudia Binz Astrachan | In-Person | Forum für Familienunternehmen | Read more
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4/4 - 4/5/2024 | Claudia Binz Astrachan & Joe Astrachan | In-Person | Universidad Francisco Marroquín Minor in Family Business Program | Read more
4/25/24 | Claudia Binz Astrachan | In-Person | Forum für Familienunternehmen | Read more
5/18/24 | Claudia Binz Astrachan | Virtual | ICESI | High-Performance Board Program | Read more
12/7/2023 | Claudia Binz Astrachan | In-Person | Institute for Family Governance Annual Miami Conference
11/13/2023 | Jesús Casado | In-Person | Session for EU SME Assembly: How to Scale Up: From SME to Mid Cap
9/28 - 9/29/2023 | Veronica Maldonado | In-Person | Universidad Francisco Marroquín Minor in Family Business Program
7/20 - 7/21/2023 | Claudia Binz Astrachan & Joe Astrachan | In-Person | Universidad Francisco Marroquín Minor in Family Business Program
6/22/2023 | Jesús Casado | In-Person | NGFB Symposium
6/8/2023 | Joe Astrachan & Torsten Pieper | Virtual | IFERA Summer School
6/8 - 6/9/2023 | Jesús Casado & Santiago Perry | In-Person | Universidad Francisco Marroquín Minor in Family Business Program
5/25 - 5/26/2023 | Andrew Keyt | In-Person | Universidad Francisco Marroquín Minor in Family Business Program
5/6/2023 | Jesús Casado | In-Person | European Challenges for Family Businesses
5/5/2023 | Jesús Casado | In-Person | FBN Sweden: Wealth Inequality
5/3/2023 | Claudia Binz Astrachan | Virtual | Webinar for Family Business Norway – Business Family Governance 2.0
3/2/2023 | Jesús Casado | In-Person | Catalan Association of Family Business
2/28/2023 | Jesús Casado | In-Person | SME Intergroup and European Parliament Breakfast Date
2/23/2023 | Andrew Keyt | Private event for Highview capital - Beyond financial success: Building the foundation for a connected and cohesive family across generations
2/23 - 2/24/2023 | Claudia Binz Astrachan & Joe Astrachan | In-Person | Universidad Francisco Marroquín Minor in Family Business Program
1/27/2022 | Claudia Binz Astrachan | Virtual | WVIB Schwarzwald: Chefsache Familienzusammenhalt
1/10/2023 | Claudia Binz Astrachan & Joe Astrachan | Virtual | Prairie Family Business Association Board Bootcamp
Recognition
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2025 | Claudia Astrachan, Massimo Baù, and Raphaelle Mattart receive a award for Best Contribution to Practice at the Annual Conference of the International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA) | “Do We Practice What We Preach? Ambivalent Effects of Execution Gaps in Family Constitutions”.
2025 | Anneleen Michiels, Claudia Binz Astrachan, Joseph Astrachan, and Torsten Pieper receive three 2023 Schulze Foundation Publication Awards for their articles published on familybusiness.org
2023 | Massimo Baù and his coauthors receive the Best Family Entrepreneurship Paper award at the Annual Conference of the International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA) | “Intra-Family Successor Selection: The Signaling Value Of Entrepreneurship”
2023 | Claudia Binz Astrachan receives three 2022 Schulze Foundation Publication Awards for her articles on ownership competence development and best practices in the hybrid workplace. Find all articles on familybusiness.org
2023 | Massimo Baù and his coauthors are nominated for the Best Paper Award at the Annual Conference of the International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA) | “Nonfinancial Reporting in Family Firms: A Systematic Review and Agenda for Future Research”
2023 | Claudia Astrachan, Raphaelle Mattart, and Fabrice Pirnay receive the award for Best Contribution to Practice at the Annual Conference of the International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA) | “Constitutions as Expressions of Family Heterogeneity: Disentangling Motivations and Process.”
2022 | Joe Astrachan receives a 2021 Schulze Foundation Publication Awards for his article titled ‘Family businesses must plan for the unthinkable’. Find the article on familybusiness.org
2022 | Claudia Astrachan and Isabel Botero receive the award for Best Contribution to Practice at the Annual Conference of the International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA) | “Governing the Business Family, A Matter Of Fit”
2021 | Isabel Botero and Joe Astrachan, together with Juliana Binhote and Carol Wittmeyer, receive the award for Best Contribution to Practice at the Annual Conference of the International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA) | “Does Working Outside the Firm Make Next Generation Members More Successful Inside their Family Firm?”
2021 | Massimo Baù and his coauthors receive the Best Empirical Paper award at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (AOM-ENT Division) | “Slack and Performance in Family-Owned SMEs: An Agency Theory Perspective”
2021 | Massimo Baù and his coauthors receive the Best Paper Award at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Management Association (SMA) – Entrepreneurship Track | “Firm Financial Distress after Owner-Manager Sudden Death”
2021 | Massimo Baù and his coauthors are nominated for the Best Paper Contribution to Practice award at the Annual Conference of the International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA) | “The Role of Slack Resources and Family Ownership”
2021 | Claudia Binz Astrachan, Joe Astrachan, and Andrew Keyt together receive five 2020 Schulze Foundation Publication Awards for their articles on best practices in the family business boardroom, family dynamics, and COVID resilience. Find all articles on familybusiness.org
2020 | Isabel Botero, together with Neus Feliu, receives the award for Best Contribution to Practice at the Annual Conference of the International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA) | “Citizenship Behaviors in Family Enterprises: Understanding its Nature and Dimensionality”
2019 | Joe Astrachan receives the Lifetime Influence and Impact Award from the Family Enterprise Research Conference (FERC), University of Vermont.
2019 | Claudia Binz Astrachan receives a 2018 Schulze Foundation Publication Awards for her article titled “Successful successions are never smooth”, which has generated over 41,000 hits since its publication
2019 | Claudia Binz Astrachan and Joe Astrachan, together with Josip Kotlar and Anneleen Michiels, receive the award for Best Contribution to Practice from the Family Enterprise Research Conference (FERC), University of Vermont | “Family Business Shareholder Liquidity Agreements: A Conceptual Exploration of Antecedents, Strategies, and Consequences”
2019 | Isabel Botero receives the Hand Award for Research, Creative, and Professional Activity, the highest research award given at Stetson University
2019 | Isabel Botero receives the Outstanding Researcher Award from the School of Business Administration at Stetson University
2018 | Andrew Keyt receives the Interdisciplinary Award from the Family Firm Institute
2018 | Claudia Binz Astrachan and Joe Astrachan, together with Josip Kotlar, receive the award for Best Paper on Conference Theme at the Annual Conference of the International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA) | “Family Firm Disrupters: Exploring the Relationships between Family Cohesion, Family Disruptive Capacity, and Company Disruptive Capacity”
2018 | Greg McCann receives the Interdisciplinary Award from the Family Firm Institute
2018 | Massimo Baù and his coauthors receive the Best Conference Paper award at the Annual Conference of the International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA) | “Risk-Taking and Financial Distress in Family-Controlled Firms”
2018 | Isabel Botero, together with Fernando Sandoval, receives the Adalberto Viesca Sada Family Business in Latin America Award at the Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico
2017 | Torsten Pieper and Joe Astrachan receive the Business Engagement Award from Kennesaw State University – Coles College of Business for the “EY-KSU Global Family Business Survey”
2017 | Isabel Botero receives the FOBI (Family-Owned Business Institute) Research Scholar Award from Grand Valley State University
2009 | Joe Astrachan receives the International Award from the Family Firm Institute
2001 | Joe Astrachan receives the McGregor Award from the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science (a publication of the NTL Institute) for one of the top eleven papers published between 1990 and 1999
2000 | Joe Astrachan receives the Richard Beckhard Award from the Family Firm Institute
1998 | Joe Astrachan receives an award for Lifetime Achievement in Research from the International Family Business Program Association (now USASBE)
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2023 | Anneleen Michiels and Claudia Binz Astrachan are selected by a private client to write a commissioned research report on wealth in the family business | Read the report here
2022 | Massimo Baù is awarded the Fellow designation by the Family Firm Institute (FFI)2020 | Isabel Botero and Claudia Binz Astrachan are selected by the Institute for Family Business UK Research Foundation to write a commissioned research report on business family governance | Read the report here
2020 | Torsten Pieper and Claudia Binz Astrachan, together with Matthias Waldkirch, Anneleen Michiels, and Fabian Bernhard, are the first recipients of the Society 2086 research grant for a research report on business family professionalization | Read the report here
2018 | Isabel Botero becomes a Fellow at the Family Firm Institute