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A podcast where global leaders from the Harvard Business School Owner/President Management (OPM) community join in a personal capacity and share the real decisions, failures, and mental models behind building enduring companies.
This podcast is independent and not affiliated with Harvard Business School.
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S1E58 Family Constitutions: A Key to Multi-Generational Business Continuity — Fernando Fey
Send a textOne of the strongest realizations from this conversation is the importance of a family constitution in sustaining a multi-generational business. Many family companies assume alignment will…
S1E57 What’s the Worst That Can Happen? Running Marathons in Iran and North Korea - Daf Dubbelman
Send a textDaf Dubbelman is a real estate entrepreneur, endurance athlete, and Harvard Business School OPM participant who is completing the program for the second time. Daf shares the mindset that…
S1E56 From 150 Tasks to 6 Priorities: Using the Pareto Principle with a Business Coach – Ankit Gupta
Send a textAnkit Gupta, second-generation entrepreneur and leader of the Holistic Group, shares how business coaching played a critical role in sharpening his leadership, focus, and decision-making.…
S1E55 Growing 620× Over 25 Years by Letting Go of Daily Operations - Devendra Surana
Send a textDevendra Surana describes his shift from founder-operator to builder of an enduring organization. Early failures (first 2–3 years) forced humility, sharper strategy, and resilience. Over…
S1E54 From HBS Student to Case Protagonist: Risking It All for Impact - Guillermo "Billy" Jaime
Send a textIt’s rare to attend Harvard Business School as a student and even rarer to later become the subject of two HBS case studies. Billy Jaime did both. While enrolled in the Owner/President…
S1E53 The Founder’s Blind Spot: Holding On Too Long - Daniel Silva
Send a textWith nearly three decades of entrepreneurial leadership, deep OPM roots, and the humility of a lifelong learner, Daniel Silva brings a rare blend of technical rigor, family-business…
S1E52 The Power of Psychological Safety Among Peers - with Felix Kues
Send a textFelix Kues is a serial entrepreneur, deep-tech investor, and Harvard Business School OPM participant. Felix shares his journey from building AI software companies across multiple…
S1E51 The Inner Operating System of an Entrepreneur: Advisors, Yoga, and Time - Sudhakar Kadavasal
Send a textSudhakar Kadavasal, a second-generation entrepreneur from Chennai has built and led businesses across IT services, logistics, chemicals, construction, and energy, with operations in India…
S1E50 From $2,000 to 800,000 Subscribers: Building a Values-Driven Media Giant - Lucas Ferrugem
Send a textWhat began as a $2,000 experiment at age 13 has grown into one of Brazil’s most influential independent platforms, bootstrapped to over $40M in cumulative revenue, 800,000+ paying…
S1E49 From Control to Trust: The Real Shift Every Entrepreneur Must Make - Ankita Gupta
Send a textThis conversation is a powerful reminder that entrepreneurs must consciously evolve from being hands-on operators to becoming true leaders. In the early stages, control feels necessary.…
S1E48 Thinking in Decades, Not Quarters: Lessons from a Multi-Generational Owner - Antonio Liberal
Send a textThird-generation entrepreneurship isn’t about inheriting a business. It’s about inheriting a promise and upgrading it for the next era. In this episode, Portuguese pharmacist and OPM 67…
S1E47 Scaling Through Adjacencies, Not Distractions - Abhijit Vaish
Send a textBuild adjacencies before you chase scale.Enduring companies don’t grow by random diversification. They expand by moving one thoughtful step outward from their core DNA, solving the next…
S1E46 Sold to OpenAI: The Patience, People, and Principles Behind the Exit - Tomasz Kulakowski
Send a textHe sold his company to OpenAI last month and the story behind it is a masterclass in patient entrepreneurship, long-term bets, and knowing when to start.Tomasz Kulakowski didn’t start his…
S1E45 The Emperor Has No Clothes: Harvard OPM and Indian VCs with Vinay Pasricha
Send a textVinay Pasricha shares his unfiltered and potentially controversial observations from 25 years as a serial entrepreneur in India. He ran an education training company that scaled to 200,000…
S1E44 Nothing Is Impossible When Discipline Is a Lifestyle: Ironman Lessons - Mohamed Mahlab
Send a textElite endurance fitness demands structure, early mornings, repetition, and the ability to keep going when your brain wants to stop. Mohamed Mahlab uses that same “choose the hard thing”…
S1E43 The Cost of Ambition No One Measures - Somdutta Singh
Send a textThis talk is really about rewiring what “success” means. From chasing validation, money, and outcomes to building with reflection, detachment, discipline, and community, while protecting…
S1E42 Scaling Trust in a Volatile, Unorganized Market - Akshay Verma
Send a textHow do you go about scaling in an unorganized industry that’s mid-disruption—while commodity prices swing wildly and brand “differences” can feel paper-thin? You stop trying to sell a…
S1E41 How My Principles Replaced My Instincts - with Radu Dumitrescu
Send a textRestaurants don’t win on food alone, they win on feel. Radu Dumitrescu, founder & CEO of Stadio Hospitality Concepts, lays out a leadership philosophy built on culture, principles, and…
S1E40 From a Billion-Dollar Market Cap to Insolvency: Decisions, Reflection, and a Robust Second Innings - Pujit Aggarwal
Send a textFrom a $1B market-cap market darling to a wipeout, this conversation traces how Pujit Aggarwal - former MD & CEO of Orbit Corporation, a Mumbai-based luxury real estate developer that…
S1E39 The Quiet Math of a Meaningful Life and Its North Star - Rajan Shah
Send a textIf you had to write your obituary today, what would you want it to say - how many lives you lifted, or how perfectly you avoided failure? Rajan Shah’s story argues that the legacy worth…
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Beyond the Case has published 58 episodes since November 2025, covering topics in Business, Entrepreneurship.
Beyond the Case is currently highly active with new episodes every few days. Average episode length is 30m.
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