Egon Zehnder Consultant Sonny Iqbal and Alum Claudio Fernández-Aráoz on four imperatives family businesses can stay true to that will create opportunities to leapfrog…
Read more
In June 2022, Egon Zehnder held the latest event in its Corporate Governance Exchange (CGX) series, which brings together chairs and Nomination & Remuneration…
Read more
Read on for the key takeaways from an engaging discussion on the future of cultivating and transitioning leaders, from CEOs to board members.
Read more
At India's first Corporate Governance Exchange event, Douglas Baillie, former CEO of Hindustan Unilever and currently a director at Huhtamaki and Airtel Africa, shares…
Read more
Family company Boards must create and maintain strong succession plans that consider both internal and external talent, as well as development plans for potential…
Read more
Managing family relationships at work is one of the thorniest issues in family-owned businesses, particularly when relationships cross generations (e.g., parent-child or uncle/aunt-nephew/niece). Many…
Read more
The pharma and healthcare sector faces a serious threat of operational challenges due to COVID-19. Operations leaders gather to discuss how to move forward.
Read more
Vaidheesh Annaswamy, President at OPPI, shares advice and insights to leaders navigating the Coronavirus outbreak.
Read more
Unlike their public-company counterparts, which focus mainly on increasing shareholder value, family-business boards must act on behalf of stakeholders with multiple and potentially conflicting…
Read more
How leaders need to model behaviors to build and maintain trust within organizations.
Read more
At Egon Zehnder, we have worked with family businesses around the world since our founding in 1964. We interviewed scores of family executives to…
Read more
It is a truism of corporate governance that a strong, highly functioning board can be an invaluable asset to management, going beyond oversight to…
Read more
In our role as leadership advisors, we are often asked to conduct board effectiveness reviews. These comprehensive studies help boards improve their performance by…
Read more
“Good governance is key to long-term success, especially in family-owned business, where stakeholder relationships are often complex,” says Sonny Iqbal, co-leader of Egon Zehnder’s…
Read more
Did you know that the majority (80 percent) of corporations around the world are family-owned? Yet only three percent continue operating beyond the fourth…
Read more
One of the fundamental challenges of any family business is maintaining the balance between “family” and “business.” Within the owning family, there will be…
Read more
In Emerging Markets Business, Egon Zehnder’s Sonny Iqbal and Richard Stark offered their perspective on one family business, Paraíso Verde, which was founded in…
Read more
Managing family relationships at work is one of the thorniest issues in family-owned businesses, particularly when relationships cross generations, such as parent-child or uncle/aunt-nephew/niece.…
Read more
The ability to give and receive feedback is a fundamental leadership skill. Feedback improves outcomes and results, motivates performance, brings groups together, clarifies goals…
Read more
In a recent study, Egon Zehnder and Family Business Network International interviewed executives at 50 of the world’s top family firms - mostly in…
Read more
As family businesses evolve from small enterprises to large, complex operations, many of them intuitively understand that they must add non-family members to the…
Read more
Perpetuity is a central objective of every family business. In today’s ever-changing world, it is critical for owner families to proactively mitigate risks to…
Read more
Whenever a family business looks to its next generation on matters of succession, it can encounter four types of responses. The next generation family…
Read more
Family-led firms are resilient, long-lasting and offer some of the finest examples of corporate leadership in the world, reports livemint.
Read more
Leadership succession is one of the most critical and daunting tasks a family business can face. Unfortunately, there are few resources that set forth…
Read more
For independent board chairmen of global companies, challenges continue to grow while room for error continues to shrink. Shareholders demand more rapid returns. Increasing…
Read more
Family businesses account for over 50 percent of large corporations in the Asia-Pacific region and many will soon be facing leadership successions for the…
Read more
Family-owned and -controlled businesses represent 80 percent of companies worldwide, but by not retaining their corporate ethos or “family gravity,” or following a disciplined…
Read more
"Family gravity" and structured CEO succession are crucial to the long-term success of top family firms, write Claudio Fernandez-Araoz, Joerg Ritter and Sonny Iqbal…
Read more