Welcome!

I am delighted to share with you the latest issue of our newsletter, 'Family Business Briefs.' This issue contains some thought-provoking ideas, facts and figures about family businesses that you may find noteworthy. The briefs has the following sections:

• Summaries of research articles with practical implications on Governance and Succession
• Summary of a published family business case on Aurobindo Pharma
• Inspirations from the life of Kasturbhai Lalbhai
• Interesting insights on Dr Reddy’s Laboratories Limited
• Infographic on Age of Family Firms in India

We hope that you will find these edifying and inspiring.

Our training programmes for Family Business Advisors, Women in Family Business and Family Business Growth and Transformation are scheduled during July / August 2018. For more details, please visit our website http://www.isb.edu/fbwm/education/training

As always, I encourage you to send your feedback and share suggestions about something in-teresting and relevant, which you may want us to include in future.

Best regards
Ram

Kavil Ramachandran, PhD
Professor & Executive Director
Thomas Schmidheiny Centre for Family Enterprise
Indian School of Business