What we are building
A place to study family enterprise, succession, governance, and stewardship as one subject rather than five.
About Ashoka NextGen Leaders
Ashoka's first undergraduate club for family enterprise.
It treats succession, governance, and stewardship as academic questions. Students work through them here, before they meet them at home.
Why the club exists.
For many students, the enterprise is a living institution shaped by family history, employees, communities, reputation, and decisions made across generations.
ANG exists so the questions that come with it get readings, cases, and structured sessions instead of only corridor conversation.
Who we hope to shape
Next-generation leaders who can question an inherited institution as well as run one.
How we work
Peer circles, workshops, speakers, mentorship, and off-campus visits, organised across four chapters and governed by a written charter.
What advances a nation or a community is not so much to prop up its weakest and most helpless members, but to lift up the best and the most gifted, so as to make them of the greatest service to the country.
Jamsetji Tata · Founder, Tata Group
Succession is not only a business question.
It involves psychology, economics, law, ethics, history, organisational behaviour, and political economy. ANG brings those perspectives together in a student-led setting.
Members build the vocabulary and the arguments to lead responsibly, drawing on the critical and ethical training Ashoka teaches everywhere else.
- Interdisciplinary in how sessions are built.
- Student-led, with faculty oversight written into the charter.
- Open to every enrolled student, whatever their background.
Family enterprise is central to Indian business.
Family enterprises employ millions, shape local communities, and often carry reputations built over decades.
Yet students connected to such enterprises rarely have a structured undergraduate forum to discuss the questions they will eventually face: how the next generation earns legitimacy, how family and management should be separated, how values survive growth, and when tradition should be preserved or challenged.
ANG was created to put those questions on a calendar, in front of people who have had to answer them.
Four things ANG is not.
The club studies how families handle the responsibilities that come with an enterprise.
- Not a closed club for business families.
- Not a networking shortcut.
- Not a placement society.
- Not a space for celebrating wealth or inheritance.
While inheritance brings opportunities, it also carries immense responsibility.
Kumar Mangalam Birla · Chairman, Aditya Birla Group · HTLS 2024
Membership opens September 2026