Nova SBE launched the first program for executives in Cultural Heritage Management in Portugal, in partnership with Spira and sponsored by the Millennium BCP Foundation. The 1st edition is scheduled to start on 16 February 2018 and will run until 22 June.

Managing talent in a family firm is a particularly difficult task that invariably raises a wide range of questions: How do you groom the members of the next generation? Prepare for what? How to attract qualified managers? How to satisfy the family's wishes and keep non-family managers motivated? All these challenges boil down to one question: how to manage talent in a family firm?

According to popular belief, certain innate personal qualities are required, a certain "personal instinct" or so-called "Fingerspitzengefühl." In contrast, countless books and manuals claim that, with the right set of analytical tools, we can all be capable negotiators. These two perspectives are, of course, crude caricatures of reality.