Welcome to The Frankenberg Group

The Frankenberg Group supports the development of healthy families and healthy businesses. We create a collaborative process with family stakeholders to build structures that lead to current solutions and form a foundation for future planning and decision making. Read more...

If Your Family Business Has Grown Your Decision-making Style Needs to Grow Too

What Shall We Do? Here's How to Decide: If Your Family Business Has Grown Your Decision-making Style Needs to Grow Too.

Ellen Frankenberg, Ph.D.

Successful family businesses make sound decisions. The quality of decision-making cuts across all the major issues that entrepreneurial families face: succession planning, estate planning, business planning, family strategic planning, and even the decision whether to sell or pass on the business to succeeding generations.

Entrepreneering Your Family Firm

Entrepreneering Your Family Firm:
Can You Engineer the Entrepreneurial Spirit?

Ellen Frankenberg, Ph.D.

The failure rate of family firms - that less than 12% survive the third generation - gives pause to many founding entrepreneurs. Yet the most powerful companies in the US also struggle against the death knell. 70% of the original 1955 Fortune 500 companies are now gone, not quite 50 years, not quite three generations later.