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			Welcome! 
			 
			I am pleased to share with you the latest issue of our newsletter, 
			which is now renamed as the  
			'Family Business Briefs' 
			with enriched contents. Each issue of the Family Business Briefs  
			will have the following sections: 
			 
    
			- Summaries of research articles with practical implications 
    - Summary of a published family business case with learnings 
    - Inspirations from the life of a prominent family business leader 
    - Infographic on an interesting family business/ phenomenon 
    - Interesting insights from experiences of other family businesses 
			/ research study 
			
			
			For the ease of readers, the newsletter will now be in a single, 
			continuous PDF document format.  
			We hope that this format will be user friendly, especially for the 
			readers using mobile devices. 
			 
			Please view the PDF Version of 
			Family Business Briefs here.  
			
			
			We hope that you will find the new avatar of our newsletter more 
			informative and enriching. 
			 
			I would also like to inform that the Thomas Schmidheiny Centre in 
			collaboration with the Centre for Executive Education will be 
			offering three training programmes during July 2018 
			 
   
			
			- 
			 Advising 
			the Family Enterprise : Facilitating Sustainable Growth and Success
			(July 20 - 21,  
      2018) - 
			This is a capability building programme for family business 
			advisers. 
			
			   
			- 
			 Family 
			Business Managing Growth and Transformation (July 25 -28, 2018) - 
			This programme  
			
			     
			
			
			provides a holistic perspective of how to successfully manage family 
			businesses in a competitive  
			
			     
			
			
			scenario. 
			
			   
			- 
			 Making 
			Directors Effective in Family Business (July 30 - 31, 2018) - This programme aims 
			 
      to equip
			the directors in family businesses with emergent best practices in 
			corporate governance.  
			
			
			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  |