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  • Chance Favours the Prepared Mind: How Innovation and Value Creation are The Lifeblood of Firms

    Chance Favours the Prepared Mind: How Innovation and Value Creation are The Lifeblood of Firms
    2024/10/27
    In this podcast I look at how innovation is fundamental to how businesses create value—for our markets, consumers, stakeholders, and shareholders. Innovation is the lifeblood of business, and I take the view that "chance favours the prepared mind" so that innovation occurs strategically to drive profitable growth.
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    10 分
  • Entrepreneurial entropy: What can entrepreneurs, innovators, and managers learn from physics

    Entrepreneurial entropy: What can entrepreneurs, innovators, and managers learn from physics
    2024/10/02
    Despite the best intentions and even ideas, what entrepreneurs, innovators, and managers hope for when pursuing entrepreneurial or innovation strategies does not always materialize. At this point, we can start to understand entrepreneurship as entopic and its consequences for the firm. Too much entrepreneurship focused on innovation that is too explorative risks exhausting resources and rendering the firm into a state of disorder. This is entrepreneurial entropy, and it serves as a cautionary note about why it is so important to manage entrepreneurship.
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    13 分
  • Mergers & Acquisitions as a Growth Strategy for Family Businesses

    Mergers & Acquisitions as a Growth Strategy for Family Businesses
    2024/06/04
    In this podcast, I am joined by the esteemed R. Adam Smith, a seasoned strategic advisor, founder, board leader, financier, and dealmaker. Together, we delve into mergers and acquisitions (M&As) as a growth strategy for family businesses, drawing on his extensive experience and insights.
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    31 分
  • Can entrepreneurs learn from sound family businesses?

    Can entrepreneurs learn from sound family businesses?
    2024/02/02
    In this bite-sized podcast, Professor Mat Hughes talks about some of the things entrepreneurs can learn from well-run family businesses.
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    4 分
  • Leaving the 9-5 to Live Life On Your Terms

    Leaving the 9-5 to Live Life On Your Terms
    2024/01/22
    Professor Mat Hughes speaks with Contracts Lawyer entrepreneur and Podcaster Fahimah Adam about starting up and living life on your own terms. Starting up and growing your own business calls on every faculty, skill, and strength of the entrepreneur. How do we manage to create value for our clients and wealth (both financial and emotional) for ourselves if we can’t live that life on our own terms? This is the dream for many of us who give up the corporate grind to become entrepreneurs. Find out more in this podcast.
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    31 分
  • Family Business Succession, Innovation, and Compensation

    Family Business Succession, Innovation, and Compensation
    2023/12/05
    R. Adam Smith, creator of the Family Business Audiocast on LinkedIn, and a successful entrepreneur, investment banker, and board leader for over 25 years, interviews Professor Mat Hughes about all things family business succession, innovation, and compensation.
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    39 分
  • Next Generation in the Family Business

    Next Generation in the Family Business
    2023/11/12
    Professor Mat Hughes, Senior Editor at www.FamilyBusiness.org, comments on some of the circumstances and challenges surrounding next-generation involvement in the family business.
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    5 分
  • Conflict in the Family Business

    Conflict in the Family Business
    2023/11/12
    Professor Mat Hughes, Senior Editor at www.FamilyBusiness.org, comments on conflict in the family business, its origins, and solutions.
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    5 分