Tuesday, November 17, 2026 
8:30 a.m. (New Haven time) 

The Science of Being Likeable

Zoe Chance, Senior Lecturer in Management, Yale School of Management
Moderated by Camino de Paz, Associate Dean of Global Affairs, Yale SOM

Likeable people are often the ones making everyone else feel interesting. In this session, we’ll explore what research reveals about warmth, attention, and listening, and how they shape trust and influence for leaders working across cultures. You’ll leave with small, learnable habits that help you connect quickly, whether you’re meeting a new team, a client, or a colleague on the other side of the world.

Zoe Chance is a Senior Lecturer in Management at Yale School of Management. She is a writer, teacher, researcher, and climate advocate who studies interpersonal influence.

She earned her doctorate from Harvard and now teaches the most popular course at Yale School of Management, which is the basis for her international bestseller, Influence Is Your Superpower. Her framework for behavior change is the foundation for Google's global food policy, and before academia, she managed a $200 million segment of the Barbie brand at Mattel.

Today, Zoe teaches smart, kind people to raise money for charity, get elected to political office, fund startups, start movements, save lives, find love, negotiate great deals and job offers, and even get along better with their kids. In other words, she helps people use their superpower of influence as a force for good.

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Register by Sunday, November 15:
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Tuesday, December 8, 2026 
3:30 p.m. (Cairo time) | 8:30 a.m. (New Haven time) 

Stewardship Capital and Long-Term Investment Logic in Family Enterprises: A MENA Regional Perspective 

Hakim Meshreki, Associate Professor of Marketing, Onsi Sawiris School of Business, The American University in Cairo
Moderated by Samer Atallah, Associate Professor of Economics and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research

This session explores how family enterprises across the Middle East and North Africa sustain long-term competitive advantage through what the research terms stewardship capital: an integrative framework examining patient investment, reinvestment discipline, and continuity-oriented financial logic.

Hakim Meshreki is an associate professor of marketing at The American University in Cairo. His research interests focus on international marketing, consumer behavior, branding, country-of-origin research, value research, and brand equity.

Since 1999, Meshreki has served as partner and commercial director at Mena Company for Adhesives Technology (Menatec), a family business, where he contributed to strategic growth and international partnerships.

He holds a PhD in Marketing from Nottingham University Business School.

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Register by Sunday, December 6:
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Wednesday, January 27, 2027 
1:30 p.m. (Ghana time) | 8:30 a.m. (New Haven time) 

Growth as Portfolio: Rethinking How Entrepreneurs Scale in Africa 

Priscilla Ntriwaa Otuo, Lecturer in Marketing and Entrepreneurship, University of Ghana Business School

Priscilla Otuo is a lecturer in the Department of Marketing and Entrepreneurship at the University of Ghana Business School. She has extensive experience in African entrepreneurship, consulting, innovation, and academia-industry engagement.

Register by Monday, January 25:
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Thursday, February 18, 2027 
3:30 p.m. (Israel time) | 8:30 a.m. (New Haven time) 

Loss Aversion or Loss Attention? 

Professor Eldad Yechiam
Dean, Faculty of Data and Decision Science, Technion

This session examines the concept of loss aversion, current debates about its reliability, and alternative explanations driven by attention rather than weighting of losses.

Professor Eldad Yechiam joined the Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences in 2005 and is internationally recognized for research in decision making, behavioral economics, and cognitive enhancement.

Register by Tuesday, February 16:
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Tuesday, March 2, 2027 
8:00 a.m. (Mexico Central Time) 

From Strategy to Smart Transformation

Building and rethinking organizations that adapt, compete, and grow

Raúl Francisco Montalvo Corzo
Director of EGADE Business School for the Western Region
Director of the EGADE MBA in Guadalajara
Professor of Finance and Economics for Business

Register by Sunday, February 28, 2027: 
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Previous Masterclasses

• Human Capital, Freedom and Happiness: A U.S.-Japan Comparison — Hiroshi Ono, Hitotsubashi University Business School (Sept. 29, 2026)
• Emotions as Intel: What Pride and Shame Tell Us at Work — Rebecca Schaumberg, ESMT Berlin (Oct. 15, 2026)
• Why Rational Investors Make Irrational Decisions: Behavioural Finance in the Age of AI — Utpal Bhattacharya, HKUST (Oct. 27, 2026)

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