Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Louis V. Gerstner, on Saving Big Blue

Louis V. Gerstner
Chairman and CEO, IBM Corp. (since retired)
Bringing IBM Back to Health
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Joel Peterson, On "Values, Integrity, and Trust"
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Saturday, August 29, 2009
The Technology Revolution and its Implications for the Future

The Technology Revolution and its Implications for the FutureA breakout session with Professor David Yoffie Tuesday, October 14, 2008
This panel brings together technology leaders in hardware, software, services, and venture capital to discuss how the technology landscaping is changing, and the implications for vendors and consumers, large and small.
James Breyer, MBA 1987 Partner, Accel Partners
Sue Decker, MBA 1986 President, Yahoo! Inc.
Eric Kim, MBA 1981 Senior Vice President & General Manager, Intel Corporation
Source: http://www.hbs.edu/centennial/businesssummit/global-business/the-technology-revolution-and-its-implications-for-the-future.html
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
McKinsey's Ian Davis | On themes on the minds of global CEOs

Offshoring Means New Challenges for Promoting Managers
Video File, 35:06 minutes
[Executives who really understand different cultures are going to be in demand as well, Davis said. "It's not enough just to spend a couple of years working in two or three different countries. The number of people, particularly Americans [who've done that] and still don't have a global mindset is staggering." For Davis, the ultimate definition of a winning company would be one in which a person's nationality is practically irrelevant—where a manager could move from Malaysia or Sri Lanka to a head office in Chicago and be almost immediately productive. "It's a huge challenge," Davis said, "but that's what the mindset has to be."
A third skill 21st-century managers will need is diplomacy—the ability to influence events and persuade people while always being respected and trusted. "Trust," Davis predicted, "is going to become a massively important word [while] power, status, hierarchy—hopefully, those are going to be dead words in 15 years' time." ]
Source: Stanford GSB - Nov05



