ISB - Conferences
From February 1-3, 2008, Shriji Arvind Singh Mewar, Mr Jitendra Singh Rathore and Mr Raju Mansukhani attended the first ISB Asian Invitational Conference on Family Business Management in Hyderabad as delegates. The theme of the conference was ‘Sustaining Growth in Family Business’. The keynote address, by Prof John L Ward, Clinical Professor of Family Enterprises at Kellogg School of Management, held the august audience spellbound as he enunciated the strengths of family businesses across the world.
Intense interactions during the conference with Prof John L Ward and Prof K Ramachandran resulted in Shriji's extending an invitation to the management gurus to visit Udaipur and begin the task of working on the House of Mewar case studies.
Prof John L Ward said, "I treasure this gift of a case that you are giving us, Shriji!” Besides being the Clinical Professor of Family Enterprises at Kellogg School of Management, Prof Ward is a visiting lecturer at IMD Lausanne; Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad and IESE at Barcelona. To read more click here
Prof K Ramachandran, or Prof Ram as he is popularly known as, is the Thomas Schmidheiny Chair Professor of Family Business and Wealth Management at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. To read more click here
The second ISB Asian Invitational Conference on Family Business Management was held from February 7-8, 2009. The theme of the conference was Building a Lasting Family Business – Dream to Reality. Shriji Arvind Singh Mewar was invited by ISB as a key speaker in the session on 'Family Tradition, values and Leadership'. The session was chaired by Mr P M Kumar.
In his presentation, Shriji explained the role and responsibilities of Custodianship upheld by the House of Mewar. He spoke to an auditorium filled with senior academicians from India and overseas, as well as members of leading business families, management consultants and students. His presentation encompassed the founding of the Mewar dynasty in the 8th century, and its progress through the 20th century, to the institutionalization of its values which provide the ‘continuity and perpetuity’ to the House of Mewar.
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