The Draft: Stories, Conversations, and Ideas in Progress
Jul 27, 2026 · 28 min · 11 segments
We're sharing a draft. An unfinished product for a podcast series that will be released very soon. In keeping with our mission on 'The Draft', we celebrate this pilot episode and the mission of its…
Mustafa Haj YusufGuest
Samar AadHost
Reine AzziHost
Today we ask, what really makes entrepreneurial life satisfying? And why is the answer different for women and men? My guest today is Dr.

Mustafa Haj Yusuf, Associate Professor at the Adnan Kassar School of Business at LAU.

Mustafa is a scholar of strategic leadership and gender-focused entrepreneurship with research published in leading international journals.

He is also the principal investigator of a major Templeton-funded project mapping entrepreneurship across the MENA region, one of the largest datasets of its kind, covering thousands of entrepreneurs in six countries.

His latest study, published in the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research, asks a deceptively simple question.

What makes entrepreneurs satisfied with their work? The answers challenge some of our most cherished assumptions about entrepreneurship.

Today we ask, what really makes entrepreneurial life satisfying? And why is the answer different for women and men? My guest today is Dr.

Mustafa Haj Yusuf, Associate Professor at the Adnan Kassar School of Business at LAU.

Mustafa is a scholar of strategic leadership and gender-focused entrepreneurship with research published in leading international journals.

He is also the principal investigator of a major Templeton-funded project mapping entrepreneurship across the MENA region, one of the largest datasets of its kind, covering thousands of entrepreneurs in six countries.

His latest study, published in the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research, asks a deceptively simple question.

What makes entrepreneurs satisfied with their work? The answers challenge some of our most cherished assumptions about entrepreneurship.
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