01 July 2019
Vietnamese family businesses struggle to survive beyond third generation: workshop
A recent study by SMU’s Business Families Institute (BFI) revealed that only 30 per cent of family businesses in the world made the successful…
22 March 2019
Overcoming the Ups and Downs of Running a Family Business
With less than one-third of the country’s family businesses surviving the transition from the second to the third generation, succession is without…
07 November 2018
Not Business As Usual for CEOs
In this other article in the same latest issue of the Leading Women supplement in The Business Times, Professor Annie Koh presented her views on the…
07 November 2018
Leadership succession for family businesses
Professor Annie Koh shared some of BFI@SMU's findings in the area of leadership succession planning. Firstly, she notes that countries in Asia are…
17 September 2018
The Ciputra Story: A Journey in Family and Social Entrepreneurship
As part of a three-year Business Family Research Programme made possible by a research grant from Deloitte Private (Deloitte) to SMU’s Business…
16 August 2018
V3 Group committed $3 million to set up Professorship in Family Entrepreneurship
SMU has received a $3m donation from lifestyle and wellness products firm V3 Group, headed by OSIM founder Ron Sim, to set up the V3 Group…
15 August 2018
V3 Group donates S$3m to SMU to establish professorship in family entrepreneurship
SMU has received a $3m donation from lifestyle and wellness products firm V3 Group, headed by OSIM founder Ron Sim, to set up the V3 Group…
07 August 2018
Roundtable: Taking over the helm
In a recent The Business Times’ Wealth Roundtable on the challenges of wealth transfer and succession planning for Asian business families, SMU Vice…
01 August 2018
27 July 2018 SMU Business Families Institute turns 5! Singapore, 27 July 2018 (Friday) – As part of its fifth anniversary celebrations,…
30 May 2018
The Changing Face of Family Business
Prof Annie Koh, Academic Director of the Business Families Institute @ Singapore Management University contributed an article, The Changing Face…