Decision-making
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Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO of The Global Fund for Women (GFW) understands the importance of sustainability for its grantees because it must also be a sustainable organization. GFW helps grantees by discussing up front ways for strengthening and expanding funding in local communities. She stresses that sustainability is not to be confused with creating a profit-making venture. GFW also perceives that funding should continue over...more
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Rodrigo Jordan, Founder of Vertical, describes a challenge in making the first crossing of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica, highlighting the role in optimism in allowing the team to shift their paradigm and successfully cross an ice valley. Jordan then argues that the entrepreneurs he admires have a similar, paradigm shifting optimism: despite the challenges and disappointments that his colleagues inevitably face, these...more
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Correction To The End Of The CLT Proof, Discussion Of The Convergence Of Integrals; Approaches To Making A More Robust Definition Of The Fourier Transform, Examples Of Problematic Signals, How To Approach Solving The Problem; Choosing Basic Phenomena To Use To Explain Others, Identifying The Best Class Of Signals For Fourier Transforms; + Their Properties, The Definition Of The Class Of Rapidly Decreasing Functions, Rationale For Why...more
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Professor Blight lectures on the military history of the early part of the war. Beginning with events in the West, Blight describes the Union victories at Fort Donelson and Fort Henry, introduces Union General Ulysses S. Grant, and narrates the horrific battle of Shiloh, fought in April of 1862. Moving back East, the lecture describes the Union General George McClellan's abortive 1862 Peninsula campaign, which introduced the world to...more
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In this lecture, Professor Freeman discusses the Declaration of Independence and sets the document in its historical context. The Declaration was not the main focus of the Second Continental Congress, which was largely concerned with organizing the defensive war effort. The Congress had sent King George III the Olive Branch Petition in a last attempt at reconciliation in August 1775, but the King ignored the petition and declared the...more
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Roizen talks about the importance of bootstrapping and maintaining control of the company in the early stages. Not only do entrepreneurs have to work for a living, they also have to make the money raised last for a longer time. When capital became easily available, Roizen notes that people stop making money the old fashion way: by working. If you make profit, you don't need other people to invest in your company, she says.
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Reedy talks about the leadership characteristics at eBay - understanding the eBay DNA, always creating a compelling sense of purpose, setting clear objectives, building a strong team, knowing how to prioritize, how to multi task and understand when you need to have a sense of urgency, diving deep and solving problems quickly, making and meeting commitments, leading and not being a victim. As a leader, she says, you have to have the right...more
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Despite the huge investments, regulatory burdens, and uncertain market place, Burrill talks about how venture businesses investing in the life sciences industry make money. He stresses the importance of creating a perceived value (which is much higher than the actual value) as well as taking advantage of global arbitrage of technology having a higher value in certain parts of the world as compared to others.
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Rick Wallace, the new CEO of KLA-Tencor shares his insights about managing a large organization. He describes his job as making trade-offs to ensure that all three constituents, investors, customers and employees, are happy with the company. While they all have separate and sometimes contradicting motivations, a company's long term success is heavily dependant on its ability to cater to these three constituencies.
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Armen Berjikly, Founder and CEO of Experience Project, shares the basic concept behind the company: a portal for people to share experiences with others in a similar situation. He illustrates by giving an example of a young mother diagnosed with breast cancer. He notes that his portal offered her an opportunity to talk to people who had similar experiences and thereby making her journey less painful.
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The chemical mode of action of omeprazole is expected to be insensitive to its stereochemistry, making clinical trials of the proposed virtues of a chiral switch crucial. Design of the clinical trials is discussed in the context of marketing. Otolaryngologist Dr. Dianne Duffey provides a clinician's perspective on the testing and marketing of pharmaceuticals, on the FDA approval process, on clinical trial system, on off-label uses, and on...more
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Early in 2002, Musk started doing some research on space. Every other sector where technology was used had improved dramatically but he did not understand why space exploration not done so. He talks about the idea behind project Mars Oasis and his visits to Moscow to buy a Russian launch. Following his visit he put together a group of experts to study the feasibility of making lower cost launches in the US.
