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Competing on Analytics          Jun 08    2006

Video l BetterManagement TODAY. I like my Analytics to inform my Intuition. The combination of External and Internal Data is the way to compete after analyzing. The challenge is how to structure the qualitative information and combine it with analytics. The high quality of the decision is the objective which must result from the good analytics.

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View from the Top: Failure Is Important, Says Indian Tech Leader
Failure is an essential part of the innovative process, says Azim Premji, chairman of the Indian outsourcing giant Wipro Technologies: “It is impossible to generate a few good ideas without a lot of bad ideas. Failure should be forgiven and forgotten quickly.” (October 2006) [Details]
Video File, 47:22 minutes

Conradin von Gugelberg Memorial Lecture: Good Business Karma
Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard explains why his unconventional business practices have paid dividends. (October 2006) [Details]
Video File, 56:17 minutes

Women in Management: Carly Fiorina Didn’t Want To Be Just a Female Boss
Carly Fiorina shared highlights of her career, including stories of human nature—and hairstyles—in the boardroom, during a speech sponsored by the Women in Management club. (October 2006) [Details]
Video File, 56:31 minutes

View from the Top: Ken Mehlman Changed the Way Republicans Target Voters
The chairman of the Republican National Committee, Ken Mehlman took a page from major credit card companies and other marketers in changing the way his party targeted voters in the 2004 Bush-Cheney re-election campaign. (October 2006) [Details]
Video File, 25:45 minutes

Arjay Miller CFO Lecture Series: Moody’s CFO Linda Huber Has Instituted Changes
Moody’s Chief Financial Officer Linda Huber, MBA '86, says she has honed her finance and human resource goals down to four: drive growth and profitability, support the line business, create an excellent control environment, and make Moody’s a great place to work. (June 2006) [Details]
Video File, 49:08 minutes

Today's U.S. Latino Media Market is Growing Rapidly
Albert Chavez, MBA '85, one of the creators of the English language Latino cable network SiTV, is the 2006 recipient of the Jerry Porras award presented by the Hispanic Business Students Association. He described his career in the entertainment media that culminated in launching the network dedicated to showing positive portrayals of Latinos in the United States as "more than maids, gardeners, and drug dealers. (May 2006)
Video File, 15:51 minutes

View from the Top: Empowering Workers Is the Key, Say Infosys Executives
Executives who want innovation and commitment from employees must model risk-taking and personal sacrifice in order to gain credibility and motivate employees, say two leading Indian entrepreneurs. (May 2006) [Details]
Video File, 44:03 minutes

View from the Top: Chinese Consumers Likely to Set Product Standards in Future, Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin Says
Arun Sarin, CEO of Vodafone, the company better known as Verizon in the United States, says the sheer size of China means its consumers will replace Americans as the customers who set product standards in the future. (April 2006) [Details]
Video File, 56:38 minutes

Conradin von Gugelberg Memorial Lecture: Idealism Won’t Curtail Global Warming Warns Carol Browner
If the current generation fails to halt global warming, “we’ll become the first generation that has left to the next generation a problem that can’t really be resolved,” Carol Browner, former head of the Environmental Protection Agency told a Business School audience. “There is not a single engineer in the world who could reverse the rise in the sea level once it starts to happen.” [Details]
Video File, 1:08 hour

Global Speakers Series: Farrell Promotes Direct Foreign Investment
Diana Farrell, director of the McKinsey Global Institute, says studies of foreign direct investment concluded that in almost every instance the practice generates large costs savings, usually accompanied by lower prices and higher quality for consumers. (February 2006)
Video File, 48:55 minutes

Untested Beliefs and Half Truths Pass as Management Gospel
If doctors practiced medicine the way many companies practice management, there would be far more sick and dead patients, and many more doctors would be in jail, argue Stanford Graduate School of Business faculty members Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton in their new book. (March 2006) [Details]
Video File, Interview with Pfeffer and Sutton, 16:32 minutes

View from the Top: Carlos Ghosn, Nissan and Renault Partnership Benefits from Differences
Getting employees to work together to produce products that are attractive to customers is the key to success in 21st century business, says Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Nissan and Renault. (February 2006) [Details]
Video File, 52:28 minutes

Commerce Secretary Promotes Competitiveness Initiative
U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez told Business School students he is confident the country will outstrip competitors such as China and India in world markets. He spoke as part of the student View from the Top Speaker series. (February 2006)
Video File, 46:28 minutes

Value Creation: Moving Beyond Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Enterprise and Other Limiting Mindsets
Thought leader Jed Emerson, Generation Foundation, says focusing on how to improve social enterprise, discerning the future of corporate social responsibility, or defining social capital markets may be looking at the wrong end of the horse. Emerson explores the nature of value and how best to think about the implications of blended value investing and organizational management. (November 2005)
Video File, 40:01 minutes

The HP Way Only Sounds Simple, Says Vyomesh Joshi
Leadership at Hewlett-Packard puts business first, people second, and managers’ egos third, Vyomesh Joshi, executive vice president of the firm’s imaging and printing group, told a Net Impact conference audience. (November 2005) [Details]
Video File, 1:12 hour

Create Candor in the Workplace, Says Jack Welch
There is a remarkable lack of candor in the workplace today, says Jack Welch, the man who led General Electric for some 20 years, and it's slowing down corporate progress. "Encourage candor," he advised a Business School audience. "If you reward candor, you'll get it." (April 2005) [Details]
Video File, 1:03 hour