Businesses must aspire to reach 100 years
Family businesses face major challenges in working through ownership and management succession and family business leaders acknowledge the problem. However, few know where and how to develop a governance and succession plan. Visionaries need not [...]
Clear vision and unity key for Sri Lanka’s family businesses
Sri Lanka’s family business continuity will depend on their ability to have a clear vision and retaining family unity, business leader Shiromal Cooray said. “The failure to articulate the vision of the business in writing [...]
Beyond the books: The ISB experience -Srijeet Bhattacharjee Co 2018
If an idle mind is the Devil’s workshop, then the Devil doesn’t get much work done at the Indian School of Business. The workload at a business school with a one-year program may well be [...]
Family business not necessarily nepotism
Given the uproar over Ivanka Trump’s sitting in for her father at the “adult’s table” at the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, earlier this summer, why it is that we seem so eager to cry [...]
MAKING CENTS: Enhancing the odds of successful family business succession
The odds of successfully transitioning a business from one generation to the next are extremely low. In fact, as each new generation ages to the point of needing a successor, it is even less likely [...]
PGP application evaluation: A strength-based holistic approach
The Indian School of Business takes pride in its strength based holistic approach of application evaluation. We encourage applicants to focus on their strengths and achievements, rather than weaknesses and failures and provide support with [...]