Category Archives: Insights

Solar power becoming important in Asia

K I Woo Apr 20, 2015 Solar power is expanding faster than any other power source. In a recent Foreign Affairs, article, Solar power comes of age – how harnessing the sun got cheap and practical, authors Dickson Pinner and Matt Rogers said solar power has expanded at 50 per cent in the past six…
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Strategic family and business planning

Danai Pathomvanich Apr 1, 2015 Today’s family businesses are often governed by men and women from multiple generations of extended families that require more inclusive and flexible business structures. In their book, Strategic planning for the family business – parallel planning to unify the family and business, Randal S Carlock PhD and John L Ward…
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Helping underprivileged gifted children achieve their potential

Danai Pathomvanich Mar 1, 2015 One of Path Foundation’s main goals is helping to educate gifted children, without the necessary means, achieve their full potential. We realize that merely providing these gifted children with scholarships to attend the best educational institutions will not suffice. Path Foundation’s goal is to provide these gifted children and their…
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Co-investing with Asian family-owned businesses

Danai Pathomvanich Mar 5, 2015 Foreign institutional investors in Asia realize that co-investing with influential family-owned business groups is good business. A recent McKinsey Quarterly article, The family-business factor in emerging markets said organizations that want to collaborate – or compete – with these companies in emerging markets must first understand them. Emerging markets family…
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