How banks are attracting children of wealthy clients
SMU’s Business Families Institute (BFI) was established to help business families become responsible stewards of their families and communities.…
Building a social enterprise from scratch
The Business Times column profiles business families featured in SMU Business Families Institute’s commemorative book – The 4Gs of Business Families…
SMU’s Business Families Institute (BFI) was established to help business families become responsible stewards of their families and communities.…
Singapore’s Anastasia Liew on what’s cooking at her famous Bengawan Solo bakery
SMU Vice President, Business Development Professor Annie Koh, who also heads the SMU's Business Families Institute which does research on Asian…
Helping Family Firms Stay in Business
According to SMU Vice President, Business Development and Business Families Institute Academic Director Professor Annie Koh, incoming leaders need to…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…