Issue 3, July 2009 – Crisis Risk Thinking

It is an undeniable fact that entrepreneurship and innovation run deep in the blood of the Baalbaki family. For more than a hundred years, each Baalbaki generation had shown remarkable instincts when it came to...

It’s the early Middle Ages in Europe where the story of Italian family business Torrini begins. The family’s signum could be traced through its 650 years of history and can still be found on...

Successfully running a family business over several generations is a complex performance that requires expertise and flexibility on many levels in the business as well as in the family. So, what exactly are the...

Image Source: Pixabay via Pexels Experience of the Al Majdouie Group It is often said, that one of the key challenges of family businesses is to professionalize their structures in order to ascertain long-term success and...

War for Talent The ‘War for Talent’ has been widely identified as one of the challenges which firms across all industries and nationalities probably have most in common. Indeed, the challenge of retaining, developing and...

The Arab world has a long history of giving to and caring for their fellow human beings. A cultural and religious sense of responsibility for the well-being of others can be felt throughout all...

China's economy has experienced a transformation in the last 30 years, from total reliance on state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and collectives to a mixed economy where private enterprises are gaining in importance. Winter Nie, Katherine...

Image Source: Rawpixel.com via Pexels Interview with Khalid A. Al Zamil, Zamil Group In the 1930s, a Saudi Arabian entrepreneur named Sheikh Abdullah Al-Hamad Al Zamil, founded what was to become one of Saudi Arabia's largest...

Risk behaviour and responses to market sentiments have changed considerably since the early ramifications of the global financial crisis. While standard hedging procedures do not seem to work anymore and risk prediction seems to...

Image Source: Walid Ahmad via Pexels His Excellency Maqbool Ali Sultan, Minister of Commerce and Industry, Sultanate of Oman, honored the Tharawat Family Business Forum by attending its gala dinner entitled ‘Tharawat meets Omani Family...