From: Pritzker, Tom < Sent: Monday, January 27, 2014 8:34 PM To: Joi Ito Cc: Epstein Jeffrey Subject: Re: Pearl Initiative I'd be happy to speak w him. There is a burgeoning legion of academics who =pecialize in family businesses all of whom were rubbing Their hands when t=ey saw the out break of our family food fight. If he reads two books he wi=l capture 80% of their pitch. While their are some common learnings, the =ost important is that you need to be skeptical about any common learnings.=Too many variables. My advise to any one facing this issue would be they s=ould go hang out with Jeffrey. Anyhow I would be happy to talk w him. Best Tom Sent from my iPad > On Jan 27, 2014, at 6:42 AM, "Joi Ito" <-> wrote: > Hi Tom and Jeffrey. > A friend of mine, Badr Jafar, set up this thing called the Pearl Initiati=e. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_lnitiative > He's basically working on trying to set up best practices to not let comp=nies get messed up when they are being handed down to heirs in Arab famili=s. As part of this, he's focusing on fighting corruption and increasing tr=nsparency. It's based in the UAE. > Any chance you guys would be interested in talking to him or know anyone =ho would be a good consultant or academic for them? > - Joi <?xml version=.0" encoding=TF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version=.0"> <dict> <key>conversation-idgkey> <integer>281057</integer> <key>date-last-viewed</key> <integer>0</integer> <key>date-received</key> <integer>MMIc/integer> <key>flags</ke > <integer /integer> <key>gmail-label-ids</key> <array> EFTA_R1_01756126 EFTA02580521