With the rest of the world beating a path to India and China to cash in on the rapid economic growth in those countries and tap low-cost manufacturing (China) and services (India), countless business opportunities have opened up.

As INSEAD Affiliate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise Patrick Turner explains, this has attracted two groups of entrepreneurs: local residents who are eager to launch companies of their own; and entrepreneurs from overseas, often from the US, who see new opportunities emerging back home. Read more..

In their newly-published book Family Business on the Couch, INSEAD professors Randel Carlock and Manfred Kets de Vries combine their expertise in family systemic and psychodynamic perspectives to study the human dynamics behind family businesses and look at how they can best overcome the psychological obstacles that can overturn years of achievement in the span of a generation. Read more..

Fresh entrepreneurs face the same problem when starting out on their own. INSEAD Associate Professor of Strategy Quy Nguyen Huy says “when you are relatively young and you have an unproven new idea, what do you have to do to convince powerful and rich people to give you the first hundred thousand pounds so you can start developing your products?” Read more..