Video Clips

Shamlu Dudeja

Shamlu Dudeja

Facing Adversity

Shamlu Dudeja, founder of Malika’s Kantha Collection and Chair of SHE Foundation based in Kolkata, recounts her childhood during Partition in great detail, starting with the day of the Partition where she witnessed the Pakistani flag go up in Karachi, the subsequent looting in the city, her parent’s decision to leave Pakistan, and her family’s distressing journey by ship to Mumbai.

Said Darwazah

Said Darwazah

Global Expansion

Said Darwazah, Executive Chairman and CEO of Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC, speaks about the importance of hiring local employees to help lead the company’s expansions into new markets, particularly in the context of political crises such as the Arab Spring or health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

Naguib Sawiris

Naguib Sawiris

Global Expansion

Naguib Sawiris, Chairman of Orascom TMT Investments, outlines the management strategies he undertook in high-risk markets, providing examples from his divergent experiences in Iraq and Algeria.

Ouided Bouchamaoui

Ouided Bouchamaoui

Leadership

Ouided Bouchamaoui, the Nobel Prize winning co-founder of the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet and CEO of Hédi Bouchamaoui Group, describes the moment the news broke of her winning the Nobel Prize in 2015 and goes on to identify dialogue as a key aspect for civil organizations and unions who wish to overcome political shifts and avoid civil war.

Nicolás Jodal

Nicolás Jodal

Leadership

Nicolás Jodal, Co-Founder and CEO of GeneXus, emphasizes his view on the importance of actions over reputation concerns, citing his company's rapid development of Uruguay's official app to track and counter the spread of COVID-19 in 2020.

Anu Aga

Anu Aga

Responding to Crises

Anu Aga, former head of Thermax, an engineering and energy company in India, explains the circumstances around which she was chosen as her husband’s successor at Thermax after he passed away in 1996. She discusses the many challenges she faced and how she was able to overcome them, noting the importance of accepting help and not comparing oneself to others.

Eva Arias

Eva Arias

Responding to Crises

Eva Arias, President of Compañía Minera Poderosa, describes how she solved the debt crisis her company faced in the 1990s by engaging with a debt restructuring plan, regaining the trust of her creditors and suppliers, and reorganizing the mine’s operations.

Robert Brozin

Robert Brozin

Responding to Crises

Robert Brozin, the co-Founder of Nando’s, a South African-based restaurant chain specializing in Portuguese food, discusses the challenges of starting his business during the apartheid regime before 1994, and how his brand sought to make consumers laugh in the face of turbulence.

Patrick Chalhoub

Patrick Chalhoub

Responding to Crises

Patrick Chalhoub, CEO of Dubai-based luxury retailer Chalhoub, discusses responses to political risk after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.

Cas Coovadia

Cas Coovadia

Responding to Crises

Cas Coovadia, the long-running Managing Director of the Banking Association South Africa, discusses how the global financial crisis of 2008 impacted South Africa as mainly an economic crisis as the banking system stayed sound, but it did lead to much more regulation.

José Alejandro Cortés

José Alejandro Cortés

Responding to Crises

José Alejandro Cortés, President of the Colombia-based diversified business group Grupo Bolìvar, discusses how the economic crisis that hit Latin America in the 1990s impacted his business. He discusses how he handled it by selling the bank in Venezuela to provide stability for Banco Davivienda, how he handled the bank run, the importance of staying calm in tough situations, and how the lessons learned led them to be unscathed with the 2008 world financial crisis.

Paulo Cunha

Paulo Cunha

Responding to Crises

Paulo Cunha, chairman of Brazilian-based Grupo Ultra, , explains how Brazilian government policies in the mid-1990s, with the Real Plan, failed to help the country’s international competitiveness.