Spencer B. Burke, Senior Counsel at St. Louis Trust & Family Office, wrote an essay detailing what lawyers can learn about family business from HBO’s Emmy-winning series Succession. His piece was published in the Spring 2024 issue of the DePaul Law Review Journal.
Spencer teaches a MBA-level course on family business at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis. His course, entitled “Ownership Insights: The Strategic Advantages of Family and Employee-Owned Firms,” covers the evolution of founder-led firms to multi-generational family businesses.
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Read his piece here:
HBO’s Succession: What Can Lawyers Learn from This Family Business Story?
Success is multi-causal, and failure is singular.
The above-referenced article was published in the DePaul Law Review, 73 DePaul L. Rev. 771 (2024). Read related articles in the special issue here.
