Professor Mat Hughes Podcast

Professor Mat Hughes speaks with Dr Mira Bloemen-Bekx about her pioneering study into getting the early phases of family business succession right. Succession is among the top challenges facing family businesses. Here, Dr Bloemen-Bekx shares powerful insights to support family owners, managers, advisors, and, parents.

Professor Mat Hughes speaks with the amazing Inbal Colley-Croitoru about her fascinating journey through music to her start-up venture, Tuniverse. Born and raised in Tel-Aviv, she now resides in London. Inbal served in the IDF Spokesperson Unit and shortly afterwards worked as a spokesperson for Knesset member Prof. Braverman. After moving to the UK and maintaining a career as a singer-songwriter,...

Professor Mat Hughes interviews renowned entrepreneur Jodie Cook about "Becoming, Being and Growing as an Entrepreneur: From First Client to Exit" about starting her own digital and social media business, selling that business, and ultimately flourishing as an entrepreneur and businessperson. In 2011, Jodie started a digital agency, JC Social Media, that was acquired in 2021 and has featured in Fo...

Professor Mat Hughes speaks with Tony Cambas, Manager of International Trade at University of Mississippi working with small and medium enterprises to enhance their success at exporting. He provides counseling and training to small and medium size businesses on a variety of trade issues, and in this podcast Tony provides advice specific to the family business. Tony has nearly 35 years of experienc...

Professor Mat Hughes speaks with Tony Cambas, Manager of International Trade at University of Mississippi working with small and medium enterprises to enhance their success at exporting. He provides counseling and training to entrepreneurs and small and medium size businesses on a variety of trade issues. Tony has nearly 35 years of experience in Customs and international trade and compliance and...

Professor Mat Hughes speaks with Qilin Hu about their work together on family firms and their marketing resources. Surprisingly, we find that an overreliance on marketing resources at the expense of family resources can hamper innovation efforts! Learn more through our practice-based article "Abundant Marketing Resources Can Hinder Family Firm Innovation" at FamilyBusiness.org: https://www.familyb...

Professor Mat Hughes speaks with Ken Valledy about how entrepreneurial startups can solve the many business challenges facing corporate businesses, revealing advice for entrepreneurs and managers about working together.

Global innovation phenomena by Professor Mat Hughes Podcast

Cross-border mergers and acquisitions by Professor Mat Hughes Podcast

Corporate strategy, and its implications for subsidiaries by Professor Mat Hughes Podcast

The emerging concept of geographic ambidexterity by Professor Mat Hughes Podcast

Thinking about global value chains by Professor Mat Hughes Podcast

Institutions and isomorphic pressures shaping strategic options by Professor Mat Hughes Podcast

Understanding resilience and its implications for strategy by Professor Mat Hughes Podcast

Strategy, strategic management and the global context by Professor Mat Hughes Podcast

In this podcast, Professor Mat Hughes is joined by Tanja Leppäaho and Paavo Ritala to learn from their interesting and insightful study into ‘Finnboat’, a traditional family business in Finland, and one that has endured, survived, and prospered through three major crises: the economic recession of the 1990s, the 2008–2009 financial crisis, and the 2020-21 coronavirus pandemic. What is even more in...

In this podcast, Professor Mat Hughes discuss the findings of his research into family businesses' innovation strategy. The podcast reports the conditions behind when family business leaders come to emphasize one type of innovation strategy over another.

This is a recording of Professor Mat Hughes' keynote talk for the Institute for Family Business Research Foundation and Lancaster University School of Management workshop on 5th February 2021.

In this podcast, Joyce Ong, founder of Marketing Tech and author of the survey and report on “From Corporate Escapee to Business Owner - what it takes” joins Professor Mat Hughes. We discuss key lessons about the journey of leaving a 9-5 job to become a business owner, and key actions for new entrepreneurs to take. These include cultivating a start-up mindset, realizing you are no longer a corpora...

In this podcast, Professor Mat Hughes speaks with Professor Alfredo De Massis, one of the world's foremost experts on family business and family business innovation about his research with family business leaders on the Covid-19 crisis. We discuss its challenges, achieving resilience, and achieving future prosperity.

Professor Mat Hughes speaks with Max Mirho, host of EntrepreNerd, providing insights for budding entrepreneurs and current entrepreneurs on starting businesses under high uncertainty.

Professor Mat Hughes speaks with Peter Harrington, CEO of Venture Simulations Ltd, makers of SimVenture, and the host of the Start-up Survival Podcast about how entrepreneurs and managers can confront uncertainty.

Professor Mat Hughes speaks with Professor Torsten Pieper of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte about the study he is a part of into how family businesses are responding to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Professor Mat Hughes speaks with Karen Lee-Thompson, Founder and Managing director of Beauty Consociare Ltd and the new skincare brand, Wǒ, about her experience in launching a business during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Professor Mat Hughes and Leonardo Lim discuss ways to manage and overcome uncertainty in crisis times, and to move from resilience to resurgence.