Kinship & Business: The Saga of Indian Family Businesses
The family that stays together grows together. After featuring the success of 17 centennial companies of India in the previous issue as part of the 17th anniversary celebration of Outlook Business, we now follow the growth trail of five family-run business groups in the country, each founded by visionary individuals and nurtured by subsequent generations into successful conglomerates. They have weathered many a storm in their several-decades-long journeys and managed to stick together, each finding its own strategy for growth.
August 28, 2023
Crash Of The Titans
Just like elder brother Mukesh Ambani, Anil Ambani started off on the solid ground prepared by their father Dhirubhai. However, hardly has any other family business seen such sharply contrasted trajectories as theirs. How did Anil Ambani lose the advantage? Nandini Vijayaraghavan traces the journeys of four well-known entrepreneurs whose businesses took off energetically but failed to retain the momentum and ended up struggling for survival
Nandini Vijayaraghavan - February 27, 2023
Start-Ups Can Never Be Family Businesses
Freshworks founder & CEO Girish Mathrubootham feels that new-age companies are best run by professionals
Pallavi Chakravorty - July 29, 2022
The peer effect
What role can local peers play in the corporate governance of a family business?
Team Outlook Business - August 10, 2015
"Only Trust And Confidence Will Help Achieve Your Goal"
GVK Group’s founder on his journey from joining the family business to setting up one of India’s leading infrastructure companies
N Mahalakshmi - December 17, 2015