Hong Kong Family Business

Family and closely-held businesses constitute the majority of companies in Hong Kong and the PRD. As most first generation of entrepreneurs approach retirement age, there is a growing need to sustain the spirit of these entrepreneurial families and partnership group. Relevant issues include trans-generational entrepreneurship; family relationships; traditions and values; power, control and compensation; outsiders’ roles and responsibilities; and legal, financial and other planning issues around leadership succession and ownership transfer. Active discussion and sharing of these issues will certainly beneficial to the family and closely-held business runners. Therefore, the CUHK Center for Entrepreneurship sees the needs of having a platform to facilitate the organization of activities to serve the needs of various stakeholders.

HKFBC stands for the Hong Kong Family Business Club. Founded by the CUHK Center for Entrepreneurship, HKFBC aims at building a local knowledge base and nurture the development of members by doing research and providing entrepreneurial training, consulting, and peer support. Broad areas of tasks include:

Help family/closely-held businesses build critical management skills through workshops, events, case studies, conferences, etc
Facilitate peer support and productive networking opportunities that encourage sharing of best practices and resolution of critical issues
Indigenize overseas findings and conduct local research on family/closely held businesses to develop knowledge and useful practices for Hong Kong enterprises

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The CUHK Center for Entrepreneurship (CfE) would like to invite family and closely-held businesses, sponsors, and other academic organizations to join hands to organize the club.

	Family and closely-held businesses

	Memberships are divided into two types:

	Full Membership:

	Eligibility: Members of family businesses and closely-held businesses or top executives of these companies

	Associate Membership:

	Eligibility: Business associations or non-profit making organizations

	Members’ privileges:

	Send up to three representatives to the events with special offer. Join exclusive events Enjoy higher priority in joining the events

	To apply, please click HERE to fill in the online application form OR download the application form and fax it to (852) 2609 7180. For inquires and assistance, please email to entrepreneurship@cuhk.eud.hk or phone to CUHK Center for Entrepreneurship at (852) 2609 7542. application_form.pdf application_form.doc

	Sponsors

	Sponsors are welcomed to support HKFBC/ the events organized by HKFBC. Please contact our staff at (852) 2609 7542 for details.

	Academic organizations

	Your valuable support will definitely contribute to the successes of HKFBC. Please contact our staff at (852) 2609 7542.

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Tentative Activities

The following are tentative events for 2009.

Date	Activities	Eligible participants	Rmarks
March	Workshop 1: real business case discussion + practitioner analysis	Open
April	Roundtable 1: dinner talk	Members and Sponsors	Guest speech; Social gathering
May	Conference at HKUST	Open
June	Roundtable 2	Members	A colse-door event to follow up on the May Conference
August	Workshops 2: family balance score card	Members and Sponsors	Guest Speaker from Bond U
November	STEP Conference in Malaysia	Members
December	Roundtable 3: sharing of STEP findings	Open
Throuhout the year	Case Study	Members	Academics work with interested members to produce case for internal consulting, teaching and research

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Email: entrepreneurship@cuhk.edu.hk
Tel: (852) 2609 7542
Fax: (852) 2609 7180
Address: Rm 243, Lady Shaw Building, the Chinese University of Hong Kong

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