Stanford Executive Briefs
The Stanford Executive Briefings Video Series
Leading academics and corporate managers present, at Stanford University, their visions of the future and strategies for success.
Stanford University invites business leaders to speak every month. These presentations have been videotaped so you can hear firsthand what these important speakers have to say.
Available Products
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Stanford Workshop: Best Practices for Your Website
- This year, for the first time, Stanford University's Best Practices for Your Website course is available on videotape. Learn from the pros how to make your site more visited, more "sticky," more successful. ...
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Building Personal Networks
- The connections that are most likely to advance your career.
Strategy versus sincerity: how care and concern build credibility.
Networks that obsolesce quickly, and those that appreciate over time.
It goes without saying that networks can be ...
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The People Side of Great Business with Libby Sartain
- Great businesses begin with great ideas, but they are sustained only through the dedication and passion of great people. To encourage such employees, Libby Sartain advocates a healthy, high-performance culture based on an environment of loyalty and ...
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Managing for Both Bottom and Top Line Performance
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Ways to ensure that your employees understand how customer satisfaction drives the numbers.
Bad news doesn't get better with age: why an open-door policy only works if people are willing to walk in the door.
How your people, processes ...
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Fear of Feedback
- Program Highlights:
How to transform a feedback-aversive environment in your company.
How the power differential affects giving and receiving feedback in organizations.
Why you need to stop guessing what your boss wants, and actively go out and ...
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Red Queen Competition: A Dynamic View of Strategy
- "Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place."
The Red Queen, in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass
Featuring:
William P. Barnett,
Professor of Strategic Management and Organizational Behavior, ...
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Don't Just Set Prices: Manage Them Strategically
- Highlights:
Four pricing strategies that marketers usually miss.
What today's supply chain managers have learned about driving prices.
When "price sensitivity" is actually a response to poor pricing policies.
How your pricing policies set ...
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Making Change Happen: A Tale of Two Bank Mergers
- Featuring: Margareta Barchan, Cofounder and CEO
Celemi
Highlights:
Why communication of change usually comes too little, too late.
How to enhance the feeling of unity and involvement.
The need to stimulate dialogue and allow for discovery. ...
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Mergers and Acquisitions: 100 Days to a Successful Integration
- Featuring:Ram Gupta, Executive Vice President,
PeopleSoft Products and Technology
Highlights:
The role of corporate culture in the success--or failure--of any merger.
Reaching out to your constituencies: employees, customers, analysts and ...
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Nurturing Innovation
- Featuring: Judy EstrinFounder and CEO, Packet DesignFormer CTO, Cisco Systems
How today's business climate stifles new breakhroughs.
Why it has to be OK to fail.
Allowing customers to inspire your ...