Family Entrepreneurship Intensity Track

The Family Entrepreneurship Intensity Track is a self-directed, structured pathway for MBA students who want to intentionally leverage their family's entrepreneurial legacy to chart their own path.

Designed for students from entrepreneurial families, the Intensity Track combines academic coursework with personalized leadership development to help students deepen their leadership, strengthen family relationships, and gain clarity about their future role in their family's entrepreneurship journey.

Program Requirements

To complete the Family Entrepreneurship Intensity Track, students must fulfill the following requirements:

1. Complete Two Required Courses

Foundations of Family Entrepreneurship – EPS 7556
Explore the dynamics, opportunities, and challenges of entrepreneurial families, including governance, succession, transgenerational value creation, family continuity, and the evolving role of the next generation.

Critical Questions Facing Business Families – EPS 9551
Examine the leadership and relationship challenges commonly faced by business families, including communication, trust-building, conflict management, family meetings, decision-making, and navigating changing family and business roles.

2. Participate in the Family Entrepreneurship Peer Forum

The Family Entrepreneurship Peer Forum is a small, committed group for Babson students from families involved in entrepreneurship.

Each Forum brings together 8 students and a Babson moderator who helps facilitate the conversation. Through honest discussion, reflection, and peer learning, you will better understand yourself, your family relationships, and the choices ahead of you. Drawing from neuroscience, psychology, leadership and family therapy, the Peer Forum will give you the skills you need to strengthen relationships, navigate family expectations and difficult conversations, and forge your own path in family entrepreneurship.

Forum members meet once a month for 1.5–2 hours during the academic year. Because the Forum is built on trust, openness, and learning from one another, regular attendance and active participation are essential.

Apply to the Peer Forum here.

What You'll Gain

Through the Intensity Track, students will:

Develop greater self-awareness and leadership clarity.
Strengthen their ability to navigate family and business relationships.
Build confidence in managing difficult conversations and family dynamics.
Connect with a community of peers from entrepreneurial families.
Clarify how they can contribute to their family's entrepreneurial legacy while pursuing their own aspirations.

The Intensity Track combines rigorous academic learning with personalized leadership development to help students prepare for the opportunities, responsibilities, and relationships that come with family entrepreneurship.