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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 newsletter has the following sections:

- Summaries of research articles on Opportunity Exploitation, Local Embeddedness of Family Firms,
   and Performance Effects of Family Business Leaders’ Metaphors
- Summary of a family business case on Thermax
- Inspirations from the life of Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy
- Interesting insights on Governance Initiatives of Kuttukaran Group
- Infographic on the Evolution of Indian Standalone v/s Group Family Firms in Post-Liberalisation Era

We hope that you will find these interesting.

As always, I encourage you to send your feedback and share suggestions about something interesting 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


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