Thomas Schmidheiny Chair of Family Business and Wealth Management

Awareness workshops

Realising the urgency to break the vicious cycle of the common adage, ‘Family businesses are doomed to split,’ the Chair has been organising a series of lectures in collaboration with family business leaders where they share their experiences. The series involves active discussions on topics ranging from Professional Managers in the Asian Family Business Setting and Managing Unique Challenges faced by Indian Family Businesses to Professionalisation and its implications for Governance of a Family Firm and Managing Succession and Retirement in Family Businesses. List below are few of them.

Family and Business : Same or Different DNAs Building Lasting Family Business – Managing Transformational Challenges
September 24 - 25, 2011, Kerala Management Association (KMA), Kochi
How to Build Long Lasting Family Businesses
September 17, 2011, Indian Heritage Hotels Association (IHHA –Jaipur)
How to Build Long Lasting Family Businesses
April 15, 2011, Hyderabad
Overview of Indian Family business
March 29, 2011, Hyderabad
Preparing Your Family Business for Strategic Change
January 21, 2011, Hyderabad
Managing Growth
January 21, 2011, Hyderabad
Managing Challenges of Professionalisation & Governance in Family-Controlled Businesses
December 17, 2010, Hyderabad
Managing unique challenges faced by Indian family businesses
December 31, 2010, US
How to Build Long Lasting Family Businesses
November 24, 2010, Delhi
Preparing your Family Business for Strategic Change
November 23, 2010, Ludhiana
Managing Challenges of Family Business
November 22, 2010, Amritsar
How to Build Lasting Family Businesses
May 11, 2010, Chandigarh
Professionalization and its implications for Governance of a Family Firm
March 18-19, 2010, Delhi
Building Lasting Institutions: Challenges and Strategies of the House of Mewar over 76 Generations
March 6- 7, 2010, Udaipur
Lasting Families in Business: A Global Perspective with Focus on India
February 27-28, 2010, Gurgaon
Indian Family Business – Professionalisation and Governance
January 11 & 20, 2010, Stern
Managing Family Business – An Ultimate Challenge
December 2009, Kansas
Managing Succession and Retirement in Family Businesses
December 21, 2009, US
House of Mewar
October 22, 2009, Udaipur
Family Governance – Areas of Challenge
September 12, 2009, Mumbai
Avoid Splits and Wars: Build Successfully Family Businesses
June 6, 2009, Cochin
Avoid Wars, Build Successful Family Businesses Presentation
May 18, 2009, Hyderabad
The Dynamics of Women’s Leadership in Family Business and Managing Challenges of Professionalism in Family Business
March 23-25, 2009, Singapore
Sustaining Success in Family Business
January 9, 2009, Hyderabad
How to Avoid Family Wars
December 2008, Ahmedabad
Making family business prosper
December 2008, Mumbai
Family Business and Governance
April 2008, Ahmedabad
Managing Unique Challenges Faced by Indian Family Businesses
September 2008, Kerala, Kochi
Building Entrepreneurial Organisations Across Generations
August 2008, Bangladesh