Focus on competence, not dynastic succession
There are family firms that are owned and managed by family members and have survived many generations, like the 120-year-old, ...
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Family Business
Family Businesses Need to Professionalize Governance Mechanisms
Family businesses have improved their systems and processes in the quest to manage complexities that come with growth. Traditionally, these ...
Institution Building & Self-centred Leaders
Kavil Ramachandran, Professor and Executive Director of the Thomas Schmidheiny Centre for Family Enterprise, questions as to what extent leaders ...
The 10 Commandments for Family Business
Many of Indian family-owned businesses have moved a long distance from the days when they believed that the companies they ...
Scions break away from family businesses
Professor Kavil Ramachandran explains why Birla, Mittal scions are breaking away from their family businesses.
Ensuring Family and Business Continuity at India’s GMR Group
In an engaging tale about the Indian family business behemoth, the GMR Group, Professor Kavil Ramachandran, Professor John L Ward, ...
Family Firms and Boards of Directors
Critical differences in board tenures and characteristics between family and nonfamily firms affect firm value and performance, argue Professors Huimin ...
Harmony and Sustainability in Family Businesses
A recent conference on family business at the ISB gave stakeholders of family controlled businesses an opportunity to share and ...
Eight Simple Truths on How “Values Bring Value”
On a recent visit to the Indian School of Business (ISB), Ajay Piramal, billionaire businessman and founder of the Piramal ...
Merck: A Family Success Story
Ajay Bhalla, Professor of Global Innovation Management at Cass Business School in London and Associate Faculty, Thomas Schmidheiny Chair of ...
