Success on a Family Business Board

Success on a Family Business Board

Image source: Porapak Apichodilok from Pexels Q&A with Marylise Abou Haidar Sinno When did you join the family business board and what is your current role? I...
On The Board of a Family Business

On The Board of a Family Business

Researchers and practitioners have established that family businesses are not exactly the same as non-family businesses. The differences lie mostly in the fact that...
UEMedical: A Healthcare Investment Company Reshaping Abu Dhabi

UEMedical: A Healthcare Investment Company Reshaping Abu Dhabi

Interview with UEMedical CEO Mohammed Ali Al Shorafa In 2005, United Eastern Medical Services (UEMedical) was established to inject life into the healthcare industry of...
On Work Life Balance – Advice from a mother

On Work Life Balance – Advice from a mother

Image Source: Shiva Smyth from Pexels These days, you can barely open a magazine without reading something about the lack of work-life balance in our...
The Need to Engage, Educate, Retain and Produce Knowledge Capital

The Need to Engage, Educate, Retain and Produce Knowledge Capital

Image Source: Pixabay via Pexels The purpose of this article is to explore the status of primary innovation and research in the Arab region, and...
Suzy Kanoo: Reflections of a Successful Woman in Family Business

Suzy Kanoo: Reflections of a Successful Woman in Family Business

Interview with Suzy Kanoo "Being successful has nothing to do with gender." These are the words of Suzy Kanoo, a Bahraini business woman, a member...
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Family Business Interview with Ahmed Bazara, Yemen

Interview with Ahmed Bazara, Chairman of Shamil Bank of Yemen and Bahrain The Automotive & Machinery Trading Center (AMTC) is the flagship of the Bazara...
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Family Business Constitutions

Image Source: John-Mark Smith via Pexels A Necessary Tool Towards Sustainability Family Businesses are known to represent the most complex type of business there is; combining...
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Family Business2FamilyBusiness Case Study: Born Entrepreneur

Image Source: Porapak Apichodilok from Pexels In this issue’s FamilyBusiness2FamilyBusiness case, HbN, innovative leader and 3rd generation member of a family business active in shipping,...
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Non-family Executives in Family Businesses

Although we would like to think so, it is difficult to transmit values and business ethics from one family generation to another, and one...