Stevens Center for Family Business

Contact Us

rrheinri@svsu.edu
(989) 964-4064
(989) 964-7497

Director

Dr. Rama Yelkur, Dean, College of Business & Management

Associate Director

Rejeana Heinrich

Office

Curtiss Hall 320

April 25, 2013

Beth Thieme, Chairman of the Stevens Center for Family Businesses, welcomed approximately 150 guests to the workshop "Behind the Curtain -- An Intimate Look at Succession Planning" presented by Kathy Wiseman. Beth is also CEO of Amigo Mobility International, Inc.

April 25, 2013

Students from the SVSU College of Business and Management course MGT 353 -- Family Business attend major events of the Stevens Center for Family Business as part of their class assignments. Here, presenter Kathy Wiseman, President of Working Systems, Inc., greets students before the start of the April 25 workshop.

Kathy and Steve Bilacic and Ray VanDriessche

April 25, 2013

Agri-business and family farming is Michigan's second largest industry. The Stevens Center for Family Business and Michigan Sugar Company are working together to serve approximately 1,000 growers/shareholders. Here, Kathy and Steve Bilacic of AuGres talk with Michigan Sugar Community Relations Director Ray VanDriessche.

April 25, 2013

Amigo Mobility International founder Al Thieme and Frankenmuth Bavarian Inn President,Bill Zehnder, talk during the social hour prior to the Stevens Center for Family Business major event. Networking with other family business leaders is an important part of membership in the Center.

April 25, 2013

Kathy Wiseman, President of Working Systems, Inc., used a series of video clips of her work with a father and son over a ten-year period to illustrate some realities of family business succession planning during her workshop for the Stevens Center for Family Business.

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