When your calendar is a moral document: A conversation with Reverend Jim Wallis

When your calendar is a moral document: A conversation with Reverend Jim Wallis
The CEO of the social-justice organization Sojourners discusses the imperative for rethinking values in the wake of the economic downturn.

JANUARY 2010

At this year’s World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, the topic of corporate ethics and personal values will take on marquee status as one of the six highlighted pillars of the 2010 meeting. Reverend Jim Wallis—author, CEO of the social-justice organization Sojourners, and Davos veteran—has helped drive the change that moved the issue of values to the core of this year’s discussions. In this video interview, Wallis reflects on the opportunity that the crisis affords for reestablishing ethics in our lives and in the marketplace. He also shares some of his Davos experiences and notes how his conversations with CEOs there about ethics in business helped set the stage for his latest book, Rediscovering Values: On Wall Street, Main Street, and Your Street—A Moral Compass for the New Economy. McKinsey Publishing’s Rik Kirkland spoke with Wallis in Washington, DC.

Managing water strategically: An interview with the CEO of Rio Tinto

Managing water strategically: An interview with the CEO of Rio Tinto
Tom Albanese explains how Rio Tinto is adapting its operations to a future when climate change may make the world’s dry parts drier and wet parts wetter.

JANUARY 2010

Water management has become a strategic issue for Rio Tinto, one of the world’s largest mining groups, whose operations tend to be located in areas that are either arid or plagued by torrential rains. In this video interview, CEO Tom Albanese discusses the economics of water, the role of climate change, and how Rio Tinto is adapting its operations and seeking to make water management a source of advantage. Bill Javetski, an editor with the McKinsey Publishing group, conducted the interview with Tom Albanese in Durham, North Carolina.

Reshaping business education in a new era

Reshaping business education in a new era
Blair Sheppard, dean of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, discusses how the expectations of MBA students are changing—and why the traditional MBA education needs to change as well.

JANUARY 2010

Source: Strategy Practice

This is a Conversation Starter, one in a series of invited opinions on topical issues. Watch the video, then share your thoughts by commenting below.

With rising interest in corporate social responsibility and increasing doubt in the sanctity of institutions, an evolving breed of MBA student is surveying the business landscape with a more discerning eye and demanding a new type of education. One person who feels this shift acutely is Blair Sheppard, dean of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Sheppard has a prime view of this maelstrom of forces—changing expectations from students, different contours of global business, new management issues for educational institutions—and a unique perspective on what these portend for business students and business schools alike. He spoke in New York with McKinsey Quarterly editor Allen Webb about where MBA education stands in the wake of the financial crisis, and where he thinks it’s headed.

Eric Mead: The magic of the placebo

Sugar pills, injections of nothing -- studies show that, more often than you'd expect, placebos really work. At TEDMED, magician Eric Mead does a trick to prove that, even when you know something's not real, you can still react as powerfully as if it is. (Warning: This talk is not suitable for viewers who are disturbed by needles or blood.)

Dr. Jane Hightower - Diagnosis: Mercury Commonwealth Club

The Cove

http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/Glj06QX32qg/

UC Berkeley special events, interviews, and lectures featuring distinguished faculty and guests.

http://webcast.berkeley.edu/events.php?group=Distinguished+Innovator+Lecture+Series


webcast.berkeley: UC Berkeley Events


UC Berkeley special events, interviews, and lectures featuring distinguished faculty and guests. To view these events as webcasts visit webcast.berkeley.edu. Full course lectures available, too.

DUhatch Student Business Incubator

CERC: Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization at Duke
Duke's Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization (CERC) views entrepreneurship in its most broad context, as the realization of vision without regard to the resources initially available. This includes but is not limited to: social, commercial, and technological innovation, as well as efforts that seek to innovate within institutions through new programs, projects, and grants

CERC fosters entrepreneurship by bringing people, ideas and resources together and serves as a portal to Duke research, education and commercialization programs.

CERC is a collaborative effort involving schools across campus and their programs, including the Medical School, Pratt School of Engineering, Arts & Sciences, and Fuqua School of Business as well as the Office of the Provost, the Office of Licensing and Ventures and the Fuqua Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.






DUhatch connects enterprising students with mentors from faculty and industry, giving them office space, and facilitating business development to help solve the myriad problems a fledgling venture faces.

Multiply your music. Magnify your sound.

Multiply your music. Magnify your sound.

Play a world of music—from iTunes and the Internet—all over the house..

A Video on Pen Computing

http://www.prendismo.com/viewclip.cfm?clipId=1131


Jeff Hawkins Biography
Chairman, Handspring
Jeff Hawkins - Lecture - Entrepreneurship, Palm Computing and Handspring

Being an Entrepreneur is Only One Stage of a Business Career

http://www.prendismo.com/playAll.cfm?id=15&caseId=35

Being an Entrepreneur is Only One Stage of a Business Career

Undergraduate and Early Career Experiences
01:01 Choosing Corporate over Academic and Developing First Product
00:42 Passion for Product Development Which Led to Becoming an Entrepreneur
00:57 Starting a Software Company for Handheld Computers - Palm Computing
00:55 First Product Failure and Following Market Research
00:55 Decision to Move Forward and Start a New Company
01:38 Developing the Palm Pilot and Raising Additional Funds to Get to Market
05:47 A Video on Pen Computing
00:49 Handling Rejections and Finding an Acquiring Company
02:24 Decision to Leave Palm and Start New Company Handspring
01:00 Handspring's Relationship with Palm
00:23 Handspring's New Handheld Product - Visor
00:49 Funding New Company, Handspring
01:01 Taking Handspring Public
02:46 Future of Handheld and Wireless Technology
01:57 Being an Entrepreneur is Only One Stage of a Business Career
05:21 Gold Rush Analogy as it Relates to the Internet Boom
01:17 Importance of Following Your Passion - Which for Him is the Product
01:06 Maintaining a Balance and Finding Happiness
00:55 Connection Between PDA Products and Neurology
01:02 Different Role of Operating Systems in Desktops Versus Handhelds
00:58 Entrepreneurs Who Deserve Admiration
00:49 Competition
00:54 Thoughts on Voice Recognition Technology


So now I'm gonna turn my comments to the present, and give you some suggestions about some advice, perhaps. I have a normal set of top ten lessons from Jeff that I give to people, and I was going to give it here, but I decided not to, I decided to try something different. I met with a number of students yesterday, and I was surprised by the number of times I was asked a particular question, and it seemed to be something that was resonating with a number of them. They were basically asking, "What should I do? Should I finish my degree, or go start a business now?" or "Should I finish my degree, and go work from someplace, and then start a business?" Those were the choices; I'm gonna start a business, so should I do it immediately before I finish school, or should I do it right after I finish school, or do I have to work someplace first? It was a legitimate question, and I didn't think there was an easy answer to it. And, so when somebody asked me that, I said, "You know, I don't think that's an easy question to answer, I don't think there's a yes or no, but I'm gonna try an analogy on you, and work through it with you." And I didn't really have time to rehearse this to myself, forgive me if I get a little off track here, but, first thing to remember is that entrepreneur is not a career. It's not something you do for your life. If you're successful as an entrepreneur, you very quickly become a business person. The people that are usually entrepreneurs for careers are usually the people that aren't successful at it! It's also not a title! Some people say, "I hate those boxes, when you fill in those forms, they say what's your position, what do you do for a living", and you know, you're not an entrepreneur, that's not something you do for a living, that's a kind of embarrassing thing for me to admit. And I don't know what to say, engineer, business person, product person, I don't know. But anyway, you gotta remember that it's a set of business principles, or business tools that can be applied for starting companies and growing companies, and you gotta bear that in mind.

Thoughts on Graduate Education

http://www.prendismo.com/viewclip.cfm?id=446&clipId=10668

We should not stereotype, it's like saying is the BS in a hotel school a dinosaur too or you know... I don't think it's necessarily true. I think that there is a core curriculum that has to be provided; it has to be provided for young people in certain areas of knowledge that they have to have. I think the MBA that turns out somebody that works in the accounting department of Ford and is prevented from even exerting their intelligence other than factual detailed stuff that comes to their desk, you're certainly going to waste an MBA to do that. I don't think... you know, it's fine to have the education but you're not going to use it, but the individual who comes out of any decent MBA program, who has a foundation of knowledge then understands... has also desire and ability to make impact, I don't think the MBA necessarily hurts. I think people who write books about this stuff, ten to one package it in a way that describes anything... but everything is the same. It's really not. What you have in this room is a group of 25 of 30 people, all of whom are very different, all of whom have different personalities and different skill sets. What you're doing is providing them a foundation of education, a way of looking at the world through an education vision. However, they then have to go and look at the world through the eyes they see when they get out and I think it's really up to them and the environments that they're in. Certain MBAs from schools that the peer group is not as exciting or as interesting as some other MBAs will probably have no use for that MBA but the ones that are and want it, I think can get it. So I would take an opposite... I would take an opposite view for that. My own view of education is you get as much as you can when you can because it's going to be a gap period in your life where when you're working, you can't get it and that ... I'm a perfect example of that. I mean I stopped really doing anything outside the hotel business for maybe 30 years because 30 years every minute of my mind was focused on learning my business and learning everything that was in the business. So if somebody says something I knew about it, I could talk about it, I could relate to it. I wanted to know it. It was my... that was my PhD essentially, and then as soon as I sold my business seven years ago, or eight years ago, I started to take courses again and so now I'm learning from a whole different perspective. So I think that that's going to happen to the young people here too. They're going to get blocked in their ability within their organizations. But I think that the education they're getting here or an MBAs later on ... you know they're still going to have the opportunity. So I don't ... it's a good question but I don't really agree with it.

Working From Home

Eco-Centric Luxury

Leadership The Dior Way

Andrea Wong's Success

Mika Brzezinski's Painful Exit

Mika Brzezinski's Painful Exit

Evelyn Lauder's Awareness

Cathie Black On Leadership

Elements Of Success