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Learn from entrepreneurs, Cabrera tells audienceCorporate leaders who want to make a positive difference in the world can learn at least four important lessons from successful global entrepreneurs, Thunderbird President Ángel Cabrera, Ph.D., said during a panel discussion Oct. 14 in downtown Phoenix.

“You’re not looking at your business venture as a way of extracting value away from others,” Cabrera told an audience of about 175 guests at an annual panel discussion on entrepreneurship. “You are obsessed with creating value.”

Thunderbird Professor Robert Hisrich, Ph.D., moderated the discussion, which included Greater Phoenix Economic Council President and CEO Barry Broome and Oxford Learning Executive Director Jan Belt. Hisrich is an entrepreneur, author and director of Thunderbird’s Walker Center for Global Entrepreneurship.

Cabrera said entrepreneurs who make a lasting impact on a global scale have at least four things in common. They develop a global mindset, create global value, build global relationships and demonstrate global citizenship.

“Those values have become extremely valuable for global leaders in general,” he said, which is why Thunderbird School of Global Management has made entrepreneurship a core part of what it studies and teaches.

Read more about Cabrera’s comments on the Thunderbird Knowledge Network or visit his blog, Global Leaders Can Be Made.

Thunderbird’s Phoenix Alumni Chapter organized the discussion at Wells Fargo Center in downtown Phoenix. Chapter President Sebastien Verstraet, a 2007 Thunderbird graduate, said the event raised more than $6,000 for a chapter scholarship.