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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.Duration: 05:16
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.Duration: 10:49
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.Duration: 03:54
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.Duration: 10:46
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.Duration: 03:12
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.Duration: 09:19
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.Duration: 01:41
Alberto Grimoldi
Alberto Grimoldi
Responding to Crises
Alberto Grimoldi, head of the Grimoldi Group, in Argentina, describes the ways the company successfully managed the era of hyperinflation beginning in 1989.Duration: 02:04
Omobola Johnson
Omobola Johnson
Responding to Crises
Omobola Johnson, the former Minister of Communication Technology in Nigeria, discusses how she recovered the business that Arthur Anderson's lost after she was promoted to Country Managing Director through diversification and strong leadership.Duration: 02:28
Hemendra Kothari
Hemendra Kothari
Responding to Crises
Hemendra Kothari, chairman of DSP Investment Managers in India, discusses how his firm reacted to the Harshad Mehta Stock Exchange scam in 1992.Duration: 05:34
Sanjay Lalbhai
Sanjay Lalbhai
Responding to Crises
Sanjay Lalbhai, Chairman of India-based Arvind, a large textile manufacturer and the flagship company of the Lalbhai Group based in Ahmedabad, discusses how the company was hit by a major financial crisis in 1995, describes the subsequent restructuring, and the lessons learned.Duration: 06:08
Muhammad Musa
Muhammad Musa
Responding to Crises
Muhammad Musa, the Executive Director of the BRAC International since 2015, explains how BRAC functions as a learning organization. He provides an example from west Africa, where the NGO discovered that the children attending the clubs it had established suffered far less disruption when the outbreak of the Ebola virus in 2014 caused social breakdowns.Duration: 02:47