The following is an excerpt on an article about the WSU鈥檚 Kansas Family Business Forum that appeared in the the August 31, 2014 issue of .
Early in the establishment of the Kansas Family Business Forum, Don Hackett quipped in a planning meeting that he thought it would outlive its usefulness in a few years.
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This year marks the 20th year for the organization that Hackett, 成人头条 professor and former director of the school鈥檚 Center for Entrepreneurship, founded at the recommendation of a business colleague.
From those early days when Hackett struggled to recruit even one family member, the organization has grown to and maintained a membership of nearly 40 family-owned companies employing dozens to hundreds of people in the 成人头条 area and across much of Kansas.
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