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This library of video clips enables educators and others to search for relevant interview clips by subject, industry, country, or any combination of all three. Users can also search by name to find all clips from a specific interviewee. The clips may be downloaded for academic research, teaching, and other educational use. Any other use, including commercial reuse, web publishing, or other forms of redistribution, requires permission of Harvard Business School. These clips are now being used in a new series of Harvard Business School cases on emerging markets. The first two deal with corruption and innovation. Listen to our Cold Call podcast episode on the corruption case.
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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.Duration: 12:33
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.Duration: 02:23
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
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.Duration: 10:39
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
Dr. Silvia Gold
Dr. Silvia Gold
Responding to Crises
Dr. Silvia Gold, President of the Mundo Sano Foundation and co-founder of Grupo Insud, outlines her company’s experience with prior public health crises such as the H1N1 outbreak, which allowed them to rapidly license and start producing materials for the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.Duration: 05:52
Adrian Gore
Adrian Gore
Responding to Crises
Adrian Gore, founder and Group Chief Executive of Discovery Limited, describes data sharing practices which allowed the company to help governments worldwide prepare against the emergence of the COVID-19 Omicron variant.Duration: 02:47