Maria Ahlström-Bondestam: Together everyone achieves more (Video case)
- Explore what role family philanthropy can play for an enterprising family
- Learn how – if done well – it can lead to positive effects for an individual, the family, ownership, business and society.
- Be able to identify what is needed to gain a leadership position in one’s family when the winds are not favorable.
- Take the opportunity to turn the mirror on oneself and one’s own philanthropic ideas or activities, either within the existing family enterprise system or as a new philanthropic venture.
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From early 2000s until 2021
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