But unlike many Asian patriarchs who hold a tight control over their wealth till the end, he represents a “new generation of family business leaders” in Asia who’ve witnessed succession feuds and want to take “every step possible” to make the journey for their children smooth, says Prof Kavil Ramachandran, a senior adviser at the Thomas Schmidheiny Centre for Family Enterprise at the Indian School of Business.
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