The Global Exchange
The Global Exchange
Podcast Description
The Global Exchange: Conversations That Matter are exclusive gatherings designed specifically for GBSN members, offering a unique opportunity to engage in intimate, thought provoking conversations. Each session features GBSN’s CEO, Dan LeClair in a dialogue with a special guest, diving deep into conversations that foster global engagement, innovation, and actionable learning.
These interactive sessions go beyond simple discussions — they serve as a dynamic platform for active engagement, allowing members to collaborate and advance GBSN’s vision of fostering global partnerships among business schools to enhance the role of management education in addressing critical societal challenges. Co-facilitated by leading experts, topics are driven by the interests and feedback of our global network. We invite GBSN members to not only attend these exclusive conversations, but also shape their direction by suggesting topics for future Collabs and by asking thought provoking questions that might spark meaningful insights and actionable solutions.
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Explores global engagement, innovation in business education, and the role of management in addressing societal challenges, with episodes addressing topics such as human rights in corporations and ethical business practices, guided by member interests and feedback.
The Global Exchange: Conversations That Matter features thought leaders, change makers, and pioneers in the business school landscape. Each episode offers a unique opportunity to listen to an intimate, thought-provoking conversation. The sessions feature the Global Business School Network’s CEO, Dan LeClair, in a dialogue with a special guest, diving deep into conversations that foster global engagement, innovation, and actionable learning.
These interactive sessions go beyond simple discussions — they serve as a dynamic platform for active engagement, allowing members to collaborate and advance GBSN’s vision of fostering global partnerships among business schools to enhance the role of management education in addressing critical societal challenges. Co-facilitated by leading experts, topics are driven by the interests and feedback of our global network. We invite GBSN members to not only attend these exclusive conversations, but also shape their direction by suggesting topics for future Collabs and by asking thought provoking questions that might spark meaningful insights and actionable solutions.
Family businesses are distinct from other organizations in both structure and behavior. They are the backbone of many economies worldwide, but are rarely centered in management education.
In this episode of The Global Exchange, we hear from Hakim Meshreki, Associate Professor of Marketing at the American University of Cairo and Commercial Director of Menatec, a family-owned adhesives company his father and uncle started in a garage in 1972. Drawing on this rare dual role, Hakim explores the characteristics of family businesses: the blending of family identity and business values, the “patient capital” mindset that prioritizes generational wealth over quarterly returns, and the succession planning challenges being reshaped by AI and shortened business model lifecycles.
He outlines the ways in which traditional MBA programs fall short of meeting the needs of family business leaders and previews a promising response to that gap: a MENA Family Enterprise Hub being developed in partnership with GBSN.
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