Super-rich to get lessons in succession at Cambridge as the university offers a new course to ‘equip the world’s most influential families to shape the 21st Century’
Super-wealthy to get back-to-back classes in Cambridge as university offers new course to ‘equip the world’s most influential families to shape the 21st century’
- Hit show Succession shows the power struggle of families to take over the media empire
- Now a course at Cambridge University aims to help heirs of real-life magnates
- The course, which costs £12,000, aims to produce world leaders and CEOs
In the popular American TV series Succession, the fiercely ambitious children of multi-billionaire Logan Roy constantly struggle for control of their father’s enormous media dynasty.
The power plays of his hapless descendants rarely go to plan – but for the heirs of real-life magnates, the path to their legacy could be paved by a new Cambridge course.
The university – ranked third globally – offers a program designed to “equip the world’s most influential families to shape the 21st century.”
Working-class students are not required to apply for education in “multi-generational leadership” for “highly influential families around the world,” which aims to produce world leaders and top executives.
The prospectus warns that multi-generational wealth “can be destructive” and “undermine family continuity without adequate succession preparation.”
In the popular American TV series Succession, the fiercely ambitious children of multi-billionaire Logan Roy constantly struggle for control of their father’s enormous media dynasty. Pictured: Shiv Roy, played by Sarah Snook on the show
In the popular American TV series Succession, the fiercely ambitious children of multi-billionaire Logan Roy constantly struggle for control of their father’s enormous media dynasty. Now a course at Cambridge University aims to help heirs of real-life magnates
It advises that influential families can learn to maintain and increase their wealth and power over future generations.
In the HBO drama Succession – created by British screenwriter Jesse Armstrong – Roy’s ailing children – Connor, Kendall, Roman and Shiv – battle to take over his company, Waystar Royco.
But their poor decisions and selfishness cause them to lose control after the death of their ruthless patriarch, played by Emmy winner Brian Cox.
It comes as 92-year-old media mogul Rupert Murdoch said last week he is stepping down as chairman of Fox and News Corp, leaving his son Lachlan in charge.
The six-month Cambridge course costs £12,075 – much more than the £9,250 per year for an undergraduate course – for 45 hours of learning and ‘gala dinners’ for networking.
Applicants face ‘robust screening’.
The prospectus states: ‘Understanding the personal horizons and balancing the different perspectives of wealth creators and inheritors, and finding routes to ‘regenerative’ leadership that embraces the strengths and aspirations of different generations, is fundamental to ensure to ensure that families and their capital (human, social and financial) evolve and prosper.’
Cambridge said it was “a leadership training course delivered by the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, and focused on families, rather than individuals, who have the potential to drive sustainable change at that level.”
The six-month Cambridge course costs £12,075 – much more than the £9,250 per year for an undergraduate course – for 45 hours of learning and ‘gala dinners’ for networking.