When You’ve Made Enough Money to Cause Family Tension

A family foundation is only the beginning.

by

Josh Baron,
Rob Lachenauer,

and

Diane Coutu

by

Josh Baron,
Rob Lachenauer,

and

Diane Coutu

January 08, 2016

Imagine you — as an extraordinarily successful business founder — have just joined the exclusive ranks of the 200,000 people around the world with a net worth over $30 million.

JB

Josh Baron is a co-founder and partner of BanyanGlobal Family Business Advisors and a Visiting Lecturer in Executive Education at Harvard Business School. He is a co-author of The Harvard Business Review Family Business Handbook (Harvard Business Review Press, 2021).
Rob Lachenauer is a founding partner of BanyanGlobal Family Business Advisors and co-author of The Harvard Business Review Family Business Handbook (Harvard Business Review Press, 2021).
DC

Diane Coutu is the director of client communications at Banyan Family Business Advisors, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is the author of the HBR article “How Resilience Works.”

When You’ve Made Enough Money to Cause Family Tension

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