Center for Family Enterprise

A new study from the House of Innovation shows how multigenerational family firms can use tradition, succession, and stakeholder collaboration to support digital transformation. Based on interviews with 16 Italian family firms, the researchers identify four practical “4E lessons” for navigating digital transformation.

After Sweden removed inheritance and gift taxes in 2005, private firms with potential family successors grew faster, invested more, and paid higher corporate taxes than firms without natural heirs, according to a new white paper. The study adds empirical evidence in a policy debate often dominated by ideology and comes as several European countries debate inheritance tax reforms.

On March 20, 2026, Camille Korschun successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, “Why We Own Together: Family Ownership Purpose in Family-related Ecosystems.” The defense took place in the new lecture hall at the House of Innovation at the Stockholm School of Economics.

On the morning of March 17, researchers, investors, founders, students and advisors gathered at the Stockholm School of Economics for a breakfast seminar on family offices and their role in supporting entrepreneurial firms. The event combined new academic research with a practitioner panel, drawing on the experience of active family office investors and family office-funded entrepreneurs.

The Family Office Insights report from the Center for Family Enterprise is intended as an accessible introduction to the evolving phenomenon of family offices and family investment companies.