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Next Generation

Why Chinese next-gens can learn from family business founders
Family businesses in China might not be as old as their western counterparts – Chinese family firms are just nine years old on average – but there is plenty of opportunity for next-gens to learn from founding family members.

Rashmi Kumar

Family businesses in China might not be as old as their western counterparts – Chinese family firms are just nine years old on average – but there is plenty of opportunity for next-gens to learn from founding family members.

Rewards and the family business
Next-gens, and indeed others in family businesses, surely feel plenty of pressures, but they also have the promise of authentic rewards that Wall Street’s synthetic alpha males can’t dream of.

Jeremy Hazlehurst

If you were to make a list of the things that Wall Street needs more of, then testosterone might not come high on the list. But according to a plastic surgeon who works there, there has recently been a constant queue of men asking for injections of the hormone to make them more aggressive.

Family business roundup: Universities to support family-run companies
Two universities in Northern Ireland and England have lent their support to family businesses, with both announcing programmes to help family-run firms.

Attracta Mooney

Two universities in Northern Ireland and England have lent their support to family businesses, with both announcing programmes to help family-run firms. 

Daughter rejoins water company and says family business is “not for sale”

Jayanti Chauhan, daughter of the founder of bottled water-maker Bisleri, has rejoined the Indian family business more than a year after she quit.

Rashmi Kumar

Jayanti Chauhan, daughter of the founder of bottled water-maker Bisleri, has rejoined the Indian family business more than a year after she quit.

App to boost next-gen knowledge of family businesses
A new app for the iPad, which will help make next-gen teenagers aware of “sound family business dynamics and practices”, has been launched.

Attracta Mooney

A new app for the iPad, which will help make next-gen teenagers aware of “sound family business dynamics and practices”, has been launched.  

Rinehart’s daughter exits board of family business

Bianca Hope Rinehart, daughter of Australia’s richest woman, has officially left the board of mining family business Hancock Prospecting, following a fall-out with her mother.

Rashmi Kumar

Bianca Hope Rinehart, daughter of Australia’s richest woman, has officially left the board of mining family business Hancock Prospecting, following a fall-out with her mother.