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14 October 2016

Outlook for Family Businesses in Asia

Asian business families say that Asia has the most significant impact on their businesses with almost 70% of them unequivocally choosing Asia over…

14 October 2016

Building sustainable family businesses

In 2012, the Singapore Management University (SMU) established Southeast Asia’s first regional institute to specifically serve the needs of…

14 October 2016

What’s the big deal with Big Data?

Big Data does not necessarily cost big bucks, and smaller companies can benefit from it too. On 23 April 2013, at 1:07pm U.S. Eastern…

14 October 2016

Regional economies good performance expected this year; of 345 families polled, those in S'pore were the most pessimistic

  More than half of Asian business families believe that the region's economy will perform better this year compared with 2012, according to a new…

14 October 2016

Survey: Business families in Singapore and China pessimistic about commercial real estate; sentiment due possibly to Govt’s cooling measures

A survey by the Business Families Institute at SMU and UOB revealed that more than 8 in 10 business families in Indonesia and Thailand were confident…

14 October 2016

Business families say Asia is key to growth

  A survey by the Business Families Institute at SMU and UOB found that nearly seven in 10 Asian business families said that the fortunes of Asia…

14 October 2016

Regional economy 'expected to improve'

  According to a poll by the Business Families Institute at SMU and UOB, more than half of Asian business families believe that the region's economy…

14 October 2016

Upcoming SME events: SBF - BFI @ SMU Business Families Mission to Myanmar

  The Singapore Business Federation (SBF) and Business Families Institute at SMU (BFI @ SMU) will be organising a Business Families Mission to Yangon…

14 October 2016

Family Business: Back in Fashion

It’s cool being a family business these days. But what is the key to success? Family businesses have come back into style, says Joseph Astrachan a…

14 October 2016

He wanted to return to his roots

SMU alumnus Mahesh Primalani was working for a consulting firm, out of a posh Raffles Place office. But the itch to return to his roots was “too much…