ISBInsight is the Flagship Research Periodical of the Indian School of Business
In this introduction to the issue theme, Nupur Pavan Bang analyses the ingredients that go into the longevity and long-term success of family businesses in India.
Read moreDistinguished ‘theorist-practitioner’ and author of Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy, Dr William Janeway visited the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad campus as the Dean’s Speaker in December 2018. ISB Dean Rajendra Srivastava engaged in a wide-ranging conversation with Dr Janeway on risk, uncertainty and investment across mature and emerging markets and firms.
Read moreThe journey of HDFC, India’s retail housing financier, mirrors the journey of the financial sector post-1991. In his keynote address at the 7th Invitational Asian Family Business Conference, Chairman of HDFC, Deepak Parekh outlined the lessons from its successes and failures.
Read moreEffective governance mechanisms, both at the level of family and the business are central to the growth and sustenance of family businesses. Simran Senani, Nupur Pavan Bang and Anil Sainani discuss the role of the Family Business Constitution in facilitating family governance.
Read moreProfessor Dr Frank Stangenberg-Haverkamp, the Chairman of the Executive Board and Family Board of the German pharmaceuticals and chemicals company, E Merck KG, was a Keynote Speaker at the 7th Asian Invitational Conference on Family Business organised in February 2019 by the Thomas Schmidheiny Centre for Family Enterprise at the Indian School of Business. Dr Navneet Bhatnagar, Senior Researcher at the Thomas Schmidheiny Centre for Family Enterprise, ISB spoke with him about the 350-year long journey of Merck and the family and corporate governance practices that helped in the company’s longevity.
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