Marta Widz
Strategy and Operations
Professor of Practice
Entrepreneurship & Family Business
marta.widz@sdabocconi.it
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Biography
Marta Widz is Professor of Practice in Family Business and an internationally recognized scholar and advisor in the field of family enterprises and family offices. Combining academic rigor with hands-on experience, she has supported entrepreneurial families across Europe, the Americas, and Asia in governance, sustainability, and succession planning.
She is the founder of the Family Silver Institute, a boutique advisory dedicated to family business governance and purposeful wealth management, and collaborates with leading academic institutions such as the University of Vermont and INSEAD. Previously, she contributed to major international initiatives, including the IMD-Pictet Sustainability in Family Business Award, assessing the sustainability strategies of global groups such as Decathlon, Velux, and Sodexo.
Acknowledged by Family Capital among the Top 100 Family Influencers and Top 20 Family Business Advisors, she has also been inducted into the Family Business Hall of Fame by Family Business United. Author of articles, cases, and book chapters, she is a respected voice within the world’s foremost family business research and advisory networks.
With dual Swiss and Polish citizenship, she earned her Ph.D. at the University of St. Gallen and conducted research at IMD Business School, working closely with some of the world’s most prominent family enterprises. Her mission remains to guide next generations in viewing family business as a platform for responsible, sustainable, and future-oriented growth
Teaching domains
Family Business
Latest publications
Entrepreneurial exit intentions in emerging economies: a neoinstitutional perspective
Small Business Economics, 2023, vol.60, no. 2, pp.615-638
From Founder Identity to Family Business Group (FBG) Meta-Identity: Identity Development in the Journey from a Founder’s Firm to an Entrepreneurial Family with a Portfolio of Businesses in The Palgrave Handbook of Managing Family Business Groups
Marita Rautiainen, Maria José Parada, Timo Pihkala, Naveed Akhter, Allan Discua Cruz, Kajari Mukherjee (Eds),Springer International Publishing, pp.587-615, 2023
Which networks are there to exchange with and learn from other business families? in Enabling Next Generation Legacies. 35 Questions that Next Generation Members in Enterprising Families Ask
Peter Jaskiewicz, Sabine B. Rau(Ed), Family Enterprise Knowledge Hub Publishing, chap. 2.9, 2022
Fostering Entrepreneurialism and Intrapreneurialism Within the Family Enterprise System in Family Entrepreneurship
Matt R. Allen, William B. Gartner (Eds),Springer International Publishing, pp.281-298, 2021
GMA Garnet’s circular economy: Jebsen & Jessen’s leadership in environmental sustainability in Pioneering Family Firms’ Sustainable Development Strategies
Pramodita Sharma, Sanjay Sharma (Eds),Edward Elgar Publishing, chap. 10, pp.252-276, 2021
The sustainability initiative at IMD Business School in The Innovative Business School. Mentoring Today’s Leaders for Tomorrow’s Global Challenges
Daphne Halkias, Michael Neubert, Paul W. Thurman, Chris Adendorff, Sameh Abadir (Eds),Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, chap. 8, 2020