Past Imperfect Episode 4: The Global Business World of the Sassoons with Joseph Sassoon

Dr Joseph Sassoon, Author and Professor, Georgetown University, is in conversation with SPJIMR Faculty Dr Dinyar Patel. Joseph Sassoon’s ‘The Global Merchants’ charts the meteoric rise and calamitous collapse of the Sassoon family, Jewish refugees from Baghdad who built a world-spanning business empire out of Bombay, London, and Shanghai. Sassoon’s book is full of fascinating characters: opium traders, horse racing afficionados who rubbed shoulders with British royalty, and perhaps the first woman to lead a global commercial enterprise. ‘Past Imperfect’ explores leadership from a historical perspective while bridging the past and present. The series is brought to you by SPJIMR's Centre for Wisdom in Leadership (CWIL) and features conversations with authors of recent works of global and Indian history and explores political and economic leadership in unusual or unconventional situations.