Professor Mat Hughes

Professor Mat Hughes speaks with Bob Chernow, the former vice chairman of the World Future Society created to ignite the exchange of ideas about the future to understand and respond to our changing world. A stockbroker for 49 years, Bob managed 750+ million USD in assets until his retirement in 2023, and was named seven times by Barron's Magazine as one of the top 1,200 financial brokers. Bob successfully predicted events and trends that have had a major impact on business and society. Bob is an avid supporter of the valuable insights that can be gained from thinking like a futurist and works to help individuals and organizations become more visionary in their approach and try to anticipate what could happen in the future.

Professor Mat Hughes interviews Ryan Chute, the Wizard of Ads, about his journey from his family's furniture business to becoming his own entrepreneur as a leading strategic marketer and the Wizard of Ads. We talk about his formative experience in the family business, the pivotal moments in his journey, and what makes a good entrepreneur and a good manager.

Professor Mat Hughes talks with Ryan Chute, the Wizard of Ads, about the value of great marketing for small businesses. We talk about how messaging and strategy are far more important than the channel, the importance of being relational not transactional, and crafting an identity customers can empathize with.

In this Podcast, Professor Mat Hughes looks into the debate about managing entrepreneurship. It is a contradiction to try to manage entrepreneurship? No. Good entrepreneurship requires good management! Entrepreneurship needs to be managed effectively to get the most out of its efforts. Entrepreneurship and good management are both key components of execution intelligence. Many entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial initiatives fail. That is an inescapable reality. But most do so because of not bringing together the skills and capabilities they need to sufficiently advantage on opportunities.

In this podcast I look at how innovation is fundamental to how businesses create value—for our markets, consumers, stakeholders, and shareholders. Innovation is the lifeblood of business, and I take the view that "chance favours the prepared mind" so that innovation occurs strategically to drive profitable growth.

Despite the best intentions and even ideas, what entrepreneurs, innovators, and managers hope for when pursuing entrepreneurial or innovation strategies does not always materialize. At this point, we can start to understand entrepreneurship as entopic and its consequences for the firm. Too much entrepreneurship focused on innovation that is too explorative risks exhausting resources and rendering the firm into a state of disorder. This is entrepreneurial entropy, and it serves as a cautionary note about why it is so important to manage entrepreneurship.

In this podcast, I am joined by the esteemed R. Adam Smith, a seasoned strategic advisor, founder, board leader, financier, and dealmaker. Together, we delve into mergers and acquisitions (M&As) as a growth strategy for family businesses, drawing on his extensive experience and insights.

In this bite-sized podcast, Professor Mat Hughes talks about some of the things entrepreneurs can learn from well-run family businesses.

Professor Mat Hughes speaks with Contracts Lawyer entrepreneur and Podcaster Fahimah Adam about starting up and living life on your own terms. Starting up and growing your own business calls on every faculty, skill, and strength of the entrepreneur. How do we manage to create value for our clients and wealth (both financial and emotional) for ourselves if we can't live that life on our own terms? This is the dream for many of us who give up the corporate grind to become entrepreneurs. Find out more in this podcast.

R. Adam Smith, creator of the Family Business Audiocast on LinkedIn, and a successful entrepreneur, investment banker, and board leader for over 25 years, interviews Professor Mat Hughes about all things family business succession, innovation, and compensation.

Professor Mat Hughes, Senior Editor at www.FamilyBusiness.org, comments on some of the circumstances and challenges surrounding next-generation involvement in the family business.

Professor Mat Hughes, Senior Editor at www.FamilyBusiness.org, comments on conflict in the family business, its origins, and solutions.

Professor Mat Hughes, Senior Editor at www.FamilyBusiness.org, provides his commentary on some of the issues, challenges, questions, and answers around succession in the family business.

Professor Mat Hughes interviews leading AI researcher and innovation expert Paavo Ritala on how new generative AI technologies change knowledge work, improve managing and organizing, and enable business model innovation. We talk about the reasons to be excited about generative AI right now; how AI is generating real value for businesses; ways to use generative AI like ChatGPT effectively in your business; and what steps owners, managers, and entrepreneurs can take to create value for their business using AI.

In this podcast, I discuss the many research opportunities and critical questions around artificial intelligence in entrepreneurship, innovation, and information systems.

In this podcast, I talk about how entrepreneurs and businesses might use artificial intelligence to innovate, create value, and create wealth.

Professor Mat Hughes speaks to tech entrepreneur Anuj Ashar about AI. Named recently as one of the Top 3 Global Young Innovators and UK LeicestershireLive University Innovation Winner, Anuj Ashar is a serial, decorated tech entrepreneur and is currently the CEO of the AI startup, Beta Booster. His experience ranges from launching FinTech companies, working with Innovate UK and the United Nations to build worldwide sustainable businesses, and some time in Venture Capital. He uses his passion for technology to support more growing businesses/ young entrepreneurs.

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, Inbal freelanced for Google, Apple Music, and others. Inbal is co-founder and CEO at Tuniverse, a new music AI start-up venture. Tuniverse is an early-stage pre-seed company in the DAW (digital audio workstation) industry. The firm is currently developing their state-of-the-art music technology named Do·re·me; this software is a cutting-edge AI music creation platform that allows musicians to create complete musical pieces starting with just their voice or a vocal recording.

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 Forbes Europe's 30 Under 30 list of social entrepreneurs in 2017. She is an international powerlifter for Great Britain and won the 2021 English Championships. Alongside these achievements, Jodie co-founded and co-wrote Clever Tykes, a series of children's storybooks, and is a business author and regular contributor to Forbes on entrepreneurship. Jodie's most recent book, Ten Year Career, is now available worldwide.

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 experience in Customs and international trade and compliance and is a former a U.S. Customs official who was part of the team that implemented NAFTA.

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 is a former a U.S. Customs official who was part of the team that implemented NAFTA.

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.familybusiness.org/content/abundant-marketing-resources-can-hinder-family-firm-innovation

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.

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

Understanding resilience and its implications for strategy by Professor Mat Hughes

Institutions and isomorphic pressures shaping strategic options by Professor Mat Hughes

Thinking about global value chains by Professor Mat Hughes

The emerging concept of geographic ambidexterity by Professor Mat Hughes

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

Cross-border mergers and acquisitions by Professor Mat Hughes

Global innovation phenomena by Professor Mat Hughes

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 interesting is how Finnboat seemed to undertake only modest, if any, innovation during stable times but had an uncanny ability to innovate in crises. This is fascinating and especially meaningful in this highly uncertain world that we live in. Their study is available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfbs.2021.100440

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 corporate cog and must lead, researching your intended audience, and leaving the hubris of corporate life at the old desk.

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.

Competitive advantage: Is it ethical? by Professor Mat Hughes

Strategic entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial orientation by Professor Mat Hughes

Strategic leaders and strategic change by Professor Mat Hughes

Strategic fit: Ideas of alignment, configuration and adherence by Professor Mat Hughes

Corporate strategy: The relationship between corporate parent and its subsidiaries by Professor Mat Hughes

Business strategy: The difference between intended and realized advantage by Professor Mat Hughes

Competitive advantage and organizational ambidexterity by Professor Mat Hughes

Resources and capabilities, and their implications for strategy and innovation by Professor Mat Hughes

External environment analysis, opportunities and threats, and the human element by Professor Mat Hughes