4 ways family businesses can lead the pandemic recovery

Jan 14, 2021

Family business members gathered around table

Jiawei Ye

Platform Funding Lead, World Economic Forum

The Big Picture

Explore and monitor how Family Businesses is affecting economies, industries and global issues

A hand holding a looking glass by a lake

Crowdsource Innovation

Get involved with our crowdsourced digital platform to deliver impact at scale

Stay up to date:

Family Businesses

“”

— Adriana Cargill, the great-great granddaughter of Cargill's founder.

Chart displaying long-term firms performance over last 15 years

Long-term firms exhibited stronger fundamentals and performance than all others in the last 15 years.

Market capitalisation weighted and sector adjusted returns – family owned alpha through time.

Have you read?

Paying attention to environmental, social and governance (ESG) concerns does not compromise returns, rather the opposite.

ESG and non-ESG assets held in European mutual funds (EUR bn) Image: Figures compiled by author Jiawei Ye based on PwC report: 2022 – Growth opportunity of the century?

Don't miss any update on this topic

Create a free account and access your personalized content collection with our latest publications and analyses.

License and Republishing

World Economic Forum articles may be republished in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License, and in accordance with our Terms of Use.

The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone and not the World Economic Forum.