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Alberta institute offers programs for three streams—families, advisors and students—in support of family enterprise
Family businesses have all the usual corporate headaches, and several that are uniquely their own. But business education is quickly evolving to keep up, and the Alberta Business Family Institute at the University of Alberta is already two steps ahead, offering programs designed specifically for business families—and also for the advisors who support them and students who’d like to.
Executive director Matt Knight says the institute’s three-stream structure—serving families, advisors and business students—is unique among Canadian universities. “I would say we are one of the larger or more active universities in Canada doing all three,” he says in this interview with Canadian Family Offices.
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