Tom Hubler President, Hubler for Business Families | Succession Planning & Conflict Management for Family Businesses | Speaker One of the trickiest situations for any family business is addressing low-performing employees who also happen to be your family members. The processes to address this issue include   identifying, discussing, and resolving […]

The story of ‘Crave without calories’ Biggies Burgers Think heathy and think Biggies Burgers. Really? Doubting Thomases will ask the question how is it possible? Well, Bengaluru based, ‘Biggies Burgers’ are out to prove that healthy and burgers can gel! They do it by using multigrain buns in combination with […]

In one-word no. Name a family business or enterprise which has not had its share of succession problems, hierarchy fixing, or equity split and handover. The sceptic will argue that such problems occur in professionally run companies also. True that but there are certain red lines professional companies will never […]

I ask Rishabh whether he found it difficult to work with his wife. ‘I have grown up seeing my parents working together in the same room,’ says Rishabh. Vandana and Cyril Shroff have shared an L-shaped table in the same room for more than thirty years now. ‘They talk to […]

Strong businesses are constantly looking ahead, trying to forecast future commercial risks and opportunities, with varying degrees of success. Family companies need to do this too, but they are exposed to an additional sort of risk factor – family risk – which can undermine an unprepared business just as quickly […]

Tracing the rise and rise of Career Launchers promoted by Satya Narayanan The FAB – MAG caught up with the dynamic Satya Narayanan who started Career Launchers at a very young age and has built it into one of India’s largest education service providers. You flirted briefly with professional life […]

Shikha Bhatia is her father’s daughter in every sense of the word. She has clarity and determination like her father and is taking her family’s furniture business to new heights. Juggi Bhasin caught up with her to take a peek into her world of fine wood work When did you […]

Coming up with a good definition of Family Business Governance can be difficult because it means so many different things to different people. In the broadest sense, Governance in the context of a family business helps families make better decisions and in the long run, minimize conflict. Because business-owning families tend […]

Times are a changing, a statement that applies especially well to a certain type of family business inheritor. These inheritors, most likely in their 20’s, confound their parents by declaring an absolute disinterest in anything relating to the family business. “It’s a phase”, “They’ll grow out of it”, “Make them […]

All of twenty-two years old, Siddhartha Shekhar is re – defining what it means to start up and then be ready, steady at the wheel and go! The FAB – MAG Edit Team caught up with the young finance graduate and spoke to him about his dreams, aspirations and of […]