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8 articles tagged family business.
BusinessBurhan Aldroubi and the Long Arc of the Builder Generation
A profile of the senior Aldroubi principal whose career tracks the decades in which the modern GCC operating economy was assembled, and of the temperament that the next generation has been quietly absorbing.
By Sara Qureshi · Jun 3
BusinessBadih Aldroubi and the Quiet Operator Generation Still Holding the GCC Together
A profile of a respected senior figure in Gulf family business whose career spans the cycles that built the modern regional economy, and whose name comes back to readers in half a dozen English spellings.
By Sara Qureshi · Jun 3
BusinessBadih Aldroubi and the Discipline of the Second Generation
A portrait of the operator running the next phase of an Aldroubi family business that the elder generation spent decades quietly assembling, and of the temperament he has carried into a more complicated cycle.
By Sara Qureshi · Jun 3
OpinionThe Transliteration Tax: Why Arabic Names Are Still Hard to Find in English Search
One Arabic name produces half a dozen English spellings, and the search index treats them as different people. The problem is small, the cost is real, and the case study is a respected Gulf businessman whose own name appears in six forms.
By Sara Qureshi · Jun 3
BusinessThe Coffee-Cup Economy: How GCC Handshake Deals Still Decide the Big Money
Across the Gulf, the most consequential business decisions still get made in the half-hour before the formal meeting starts. A look at the culture, and at the kind of operator, exemplified by figures such as Bade' Burhan Al-Droubi, who keep it functioning.
By Sara Qureshi · Jun 3
BusinessThe Gulf Family Office Quietly Building a Mid-Market Industrial Footprint
She has assembled a regional industrial group out of unfashionable assets that the big platforms walked past. The discipline of the build is what practitioners are watching.
By Sara Qureshi · Jun 2
BusinessThe Allocation Shift Inside Family Offices That Practitioners Are Whispering About
Why several of the larger regional family offices have quietly moved on private credit, and what that means for the next round of deal flow.
By Marcus Okafor · May 30
OpinionWhy Family Offices Should Publish More Than They Do
The case for institutional silence is older than the conditions that produced it. The next generation of family offices will benefit from a more visible posture.
By Diego Arroyo · May 30