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2009
Don Kohn Don Kohn, Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System 11/16/2009
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MacEachern Symposium MacEachern Symposium 10/30/2009
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Introduction: Joseph P. Newhouse
Medical Technology Evaluation
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Myron Scholes Nobel Prize-winning economist Myron Scholes 10/26/2009
“Debt is like a cancer,” Nobel Laureate Myron Scholes says. “You have to proactively do something to reduce it.”
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Jonathan Greenblatt Innovating Social Change Conference 10/20/2009
Addressing the theme of “Innovation: A Catalyst for Social Change Across Sectors,” leaders from the public, private and nonprofit sectors shared their strategies for integrating social change into their business practices.
Nancy Barry, Founder and CEO, Enterprise Solutions to Poverty
Jaqueline Novagratz, Founder & CEO, Acumen Fund
John Brock, CEO, Coca-Cola Enterprises
Keynote Panel: John Wood and Jonathan Greenblatt
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Bob McDonald Bob McDonald, President and CEO P&G 10/7/2009
“It is important for each individual and each organization to get in touch with their education, experiences, culture, family heritage and organizational memberships to develop their own set of beliefs,” McDonald said.
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Thomas J. Wilson Thomas J. Wilson ’80, CEO Allstate Insurance Company 9/4/2009
Wilson was the keynote speaker during Complete Immersion in Management Week, the Kellogg School’s weeklong orientation for incoming students.
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Miles White Miles White, CEO of Abbott 6/20/2009
During his Convocation address, Miles D. White, CEO of Abbott, advised graduates on the meaning of success.
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Deepak Chora Deepak Chopra 6/15/2009
“We are not in an economic crisis, we are in an economic opportunity,” Deepak Chopra told the crowd of Kellogg students who flooded the Tribune Auditorium on May 29 to hear him speak.
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Coca-Cola Enterprises Chairman and CEO John Brock John Brock, Chairman and CEO Coca-Cola Enterprises 6/01/2009
Leadership is “all about convincing and motivating a group of people ... to do things they would not normally do in order to win,” John Brock told Kellogg students.
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A panel discussion on the social responsibility of business schools Centennial Finale Event 5/29/2009
At the close of its 100th year, the Kellogg School looks ahead to the future of graduate management education
David Schmittlein, Dean, MIT Sloan School of Management
Judy D. Olian, Dean, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Panel Discussion: The Social Responsibility of Business Schools
Closing Remarks Dipak C. Jain, Dean, Kellogg School of Management
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Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga 5/20/2009
“The African people are now in a situation where they have to fight against their own leadership,” said Odinga.
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Tom Kelley Tom Kelley, IDEO General Manager 5/19/2009
Kelley receives the Kellogg Award for Distinguished Leadership
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Manuel Rocha Latin American Business Conference 5/16/2009
Manuel Rocha, The Globis Group Ambassador to the US
Lywal Salles Filho, Senior Managing Director, Itau Unibanco
   
Manufacturing Business Conference Manufacturing Business Conference 5/13/2009
Philip W. Knisely, Executive Vice President  Danaher Corp.
Conrad Winkler, Vice President, Operations Practice Booz & Co.
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Peter C. Hawthorne, Vice President, Strategy & Business Development Cargill, Inc.
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Dave Chen "Innovation in Sustainability-focused finance" by Dave Chen '84 5/13/2009
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Robert Shiller Robert Shiller, Yale University Professor 5/05/2009
Shiller appeared as part of the Kellogg Distinguished Lecture Series
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Michael Mandelbaum Johns Hopkins Professor Michael Mandelbaum 5/05/2009
Mandelbaum appeared as part of the Kellogg Distinguished Lecture Series
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Alumni Panel 1979 Alumni panel discussion 5/2/2009
Now leaders in their fields, graduates from the Class of 1979 share their perspectives on the current economic crisis with fellow Kellogg alumni
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2009 Reunion: MBA Update 5/1/2009
Professor Jan Eberly: The Financial Crisis and its Economic Impact
Professor David Dranove: Your Money or Your Life: Will Report Cards and Pay for Performance Raise the Bar for Healthcare Quality
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Jonathan Herbst

Ambassador John Herbst 4/30/2009
Herbst delivered the lecture “Meeting the Challenge of Failed and Failing States: The Civilian Response Corps and a Whole-of-Government Framework” to Kellogg students and faculty at the Donald P. Jacobs Center on April 30.
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Sophia Siskel '99, President & CEO, Chicago Botanic Garden 4/24/2009
Siskel delivered a keynote at the Women's Leadership Workshop
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C.K. Prahalad India Business Conference 4/18/2009
The conference, themed “Riding the Elephant: Sharing India’s Success,” brought Kellogg students and faculty together with Indian business experts to discuss opportunities and trends in the subcontinent, one of the brighter spots in a slowing global economy.  
Baba Kalyani  |  Panel Discussion with Amit Mital, Ln Balaji & Vinod Dasari '92Kishore Biyani  |  Vinod Dasari ’92, COO, Ashok Leyland  |  Read Story
   
Rob Tarkoff Rob Tarkoff, senior vice president of Adobe Systems Inc. 4/15/2009
‘People are always willing to pay for things they value,’ keynote speaker Rob Tarkoff, told attendees at the Kellogg Technology Conference.
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Drew Fundenberg Drew Fudenberg, Professor of Economics at Harvard University 4/15/2009
Game theory scholar Drew Fudenberg, delivered the Nancy L. Schwartz Memorial Lecture on April 15 at the Kellogg School.
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Alice Schroeder Alice Schroeder, Financial Analyst and Author 4/8/2009
Schroeder’s visit was the latest in the Kellogg Distinguished Lecture Series and was sponsored by the Kellogg School Office of the Dean.
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Robert Korajczyk New York Centennial conference 3/11/2009
The event, one of several marking the school’s yearlong Centennial celebration, brought together leading practitioners and academics to explore the future of capital markets.
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Lawrence Lessig Lawrence Lessig  3/05/2009
“It’s not that money is evil, but a simple recognition that money poisons trust,” Lessig said. “To restore trust is to remove the dependency that erodes trust in these institutions.”
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Maria Thomas '92 Maria Thomas '92, CEO of Etsy  3/04/2009 
Thomas offered her “four truths”: “Work hard, embrace balanced imbalance, show up and be ready to receive, and know thyself.’”
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Johnathan Rodgers-CEO of TV One  2/21/2009
Rogers delivered a keynote address at the 2009 Black Management Association Conference
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BMA Conference Executive Roundtable Keynote  2/21/2009
Perspectives on the Rise of Barack Obama from Chicago’s Black Business Leaders: Kellogg professor Steven Rogers, Cheryle Jackson, Quentin E. Primo III & Roger O. Crocket moderated by Gwen Ifill
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Marc Morial - President and CEO, National Urban League  2/21/2009
Morial delivered a keynote address at the 2009 Black Management Association Conference
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Jim Skinner Chicago Centennial conference 2/20/2009
“If students do not come to you, you need to come to them,” Jain said. “We are in the business of shaping talent wherever they are.”
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Sylvia Nasar Sylvia Nasar 2/19/2009
Sylvia Nasar appeared as part of the Kellogg Distinguished Lecture Series.
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Private Equity conference 2009 Tim Draper, Founder and Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson 2/14/2009
The current economic downtown is “a great opportunity for entrepreneurs, because they can get bigger faster,” keynote speaker Tim Draper told attendees at the Kellogg Private Equity & Venture Capital conference.
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Private Equity Conference 2009 Panel Discussions 2/14/2009
Opportunities in Today’s Market | Alumni Access |  The Limited Partner Perspectives | Alumni Access
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State of the Venture Capital Industry
 
Hartley Rogers, Chairman, Hamilton Lane. 2/14/2009
Rogers addressed attendees at the Kellogg Private Equity & Venture Capital conference.
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Vikas Kapoor, President and CEO, iQor, Inc. 2/14/2009
Kapoor addressed attendees at the Kellogg Private Equity & Venture Capital conference.
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Professor Daniel Diermeier Zurich Centennial Conference 2/1/2009
The Kellogg School hosted a two-day global forum in Zurich, the second in its series of international Centennial conferences focusing on the most vital issues in management today.
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John Meacham John Meacham, Newsweek editor 1/26/2009
“The election of the 44th president in my business and in any business will be a point at which we measure the world based on what happened before the Jan. 20 inauguration and after,” he said.  
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Bill Weldon Bill Weldon, Director, CEO of Johnson & Johnson 1/26/2009
Bill Weldon addressed students as part of the CEO speaker Series 
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2009 Marketing Conference 1/24/2009
Panels: Letting Go: When Consumers Control the Message | When Your Customer’s Cause Becomes Your Own | Reframing Brands for the International Consumer | When Niche Brands Go Mainstream
Keynote Joe Kennedy, President & Chief Executive Officer, Pandora Media, Inc. | Keynote Mike Mickunas, Global Vice President, Global Insights, Kellogg Co.
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Alumni real estate panel Kellogg alumni assess the impasse in the real estate industry 1/21/2009
If it is always darkest just before the dawn, then morning should be right around the corner for the real-estate industry.
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Robert Mueller Robert Mueller, Director, FBI 1/15/2009
“Before 9/11, the FBI was looked at as an entity that after attacks would gather evidence, investigate and bring people to justice. After 9/11, we were now in the business of preventing terrorist attacks.”
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John Wood John Wood, Room to Read 1/14/2009
Wood was inspired to found Room to Read in 1999 after taking a backpacking trip though Nepal, where he witnessed deteriorating schools and met children so desperate for an education that they begged for pencils instead of money. 
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John Wood, Room to Read 1/13/2009
John visited the Part-Time Program as part of the Beacon Capital Fellow Program.
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Miami Centennial Conference 1/11/2009
Kellogg continued its yearlong 100th anniversary celebration earlier this month in Miami, but participants were not mulling over the past. They were looking ahead to the future of innovation.
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David Rubenstein David Rubenstein, Carlyle Group 1/09/2009
Private equity won’t go away,” Rubenstein said. “The industry will survive because the concept works, but it will be more challenged than before.”  
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2008
 
John A. Edwardson, chairman and chief executive officer of CDW 12/13/2008
EMBA Convocation speaker said, “It’s important for all of us to remember that we are usually not the smartest person in the room. And even if we are, it doesn’t make any difference —because a lot of good ideas come from the other people that all of us work with every day.”
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William Quinn ‘91,  managing director, Goldman Sachs 11/20/2008
Participating in a panel discussion at the Kellogg Risk Summit.
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Scott Kelley '87 Scott Kelley ‘87,  managing director of Aetos Capital Management and CEO of Aetos Capital Asia and Aetos Japan 11/5/2008
Kelley said that the commercial mortgage-backed securities model that had funded the real estate industry is broken and needs to be restructured.
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Robert Buday, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP 11/5/2008
“Lenders really like infrastructure investments because they are hard assets with significant value and an inelastic demand,” Buday said.
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Leo Tilman, speaking at the Kellogg Finance Conference 11/20/2008
Tilman framed his keynote around concepts in his recent book, Financial Darwinism, which he called a “road map” to the new financial order.
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James Stewart James B. Stewart, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist with the Wall Street Journal 11/18/2008
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Elizabeth Bartlett-Flury, Dir., Clinical Integration, Johns Hopkins Health System 11/1/08
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JOHN C. LECHLEITER, Ph.D. John C. Lechleiter, Ph.D., President & CEO, Eli Lilly 11/1/08
Lechleiter compared the major challenges facing the his industry to “three 800-pound gorillas that seem to follow me everywhere I go.”
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John Alexander, Vice President, Growth & Innovation, Whirlpool Corporation  10/31/08
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Nancy Cooper, Executive VP and CFO, CA, Inc. 10/31/08
Successful companies must maintain strong investor relations by continuously communicating, simultaneously considering the current quarter and the longer term, building a diverse workforce, and keeping focused on the big picture, Cooper said.
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Krugman Paul Krugman 10/27/08
Krugman’s Oct. 27 speech drew more than 1,000 people who listened as he discussed the intersection of U.S. economics and politics, particularly noting recent developments in what has become a global financial crisis.
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Matthew Bishop Matthew Bishop 10/08/08
“They need to be really smart about how they use their money,” he said. “They need to leverage their money.”
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Jessica Flannery, Co-Founder of Kiva 10/08/08
Jessica was a keynote speaker at the Innovating Social Change Conference
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Sam Zell Sam Zell 10/08/08
“The most important thing is you’ve got to change the culture. You’ve got to exert control,” said Zell.
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Senior Associate Dean David Besanko explains the facts of U.S. presidential politics 10/10/08
“Obama has changed the model for campaign financing,” he said, noting that part of Obama’s resources have come via the Internet from individuals donating less than $200. “He took advantage of the power of the Internet.”
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P&G COO Bob McDonald

Man with a plan: P&G COO Bob McDonald on ‘values-based leadership’ 10/7/08
 “If you don’t plan it out,” said Bob McDonald during an Oct. 6 visit to the Kellogg School, “you won’t be an effective leader.”
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Panelists talk about the financial bailout

Kellogg School Experts on U.S. Bailout: Will it Work? 10/3/08
Worse than bad. Unprecedented. That’s how William Osborn ’73 described the U.S. credit crisis during an Oct. 3 panel discussion at the Kellogg School’s James L. Allen Center.
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Professor Bob McDonald

Fed bailout  9/26/08
Finance professors explain origin of Wall Street woes and respond to proposed solutions
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Janet Froetscher, President and CEO, National Safety Council 9/4/2008
Janet Froetscher addresses students during CIM activities.
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Convocation 2008 Video 7/08/08
Convocation for the Kellogg School’s Class of 2008 was a time for self-reflection, shared by faculty and students alike. Held June 21 in Northwestern University’s Welsh-Ryan Arena, the celebration put an exclamation mark on the Kellogg experience for nearly 1,000 members of the school’s Full- and Part-Time MBA Programs who will now go out and put their leadership education into action.
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Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of GE 7/08/08
Immelt highlighted how the graduates created a framework for learning by earning their MBAs. “Business has no shelf life,” he said, emphasizing the importance to continue to grow post-Kellogg. He shared several of the lessons he has learned from business, including the importance of relating to and respecting people.
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EMBA Convocation 2008 Video 7/08/08
Families cheered, cameras flashed and faculty beamed as 117 graduates of the Kellogg School’s Executive MBA Program received their diplomas on June 14.
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Barry MacLean, president and CEO of MacLean-Fogg 6/17/08
MacLean, a self-described “widget-maker from the Midwest,” heads a 4,000-employee company that provides products for automotive and power utility markets in North America, Europe and Asia.
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Honorable Minister Kamal Nath, Minister of Commerce and Industry, Government of India 5/10/08
“When you have subsidies, you never have the real prices,” Nath said. “The Indian farmer can compete with U.S. farmers, but he can’t compete with the U.S. Treasury.”
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Kanwal Rekhi, Managing Director, Inventus Capital Partners 5/10/08
Rekhi spoke at the 2008 India Business conference
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John Canning Jr., Madison Dearborn Chairman 4/4/08
Canning entertained the audience with a candid lecture about his industry’s past, present and possible future using technical detail, as well as personal stories and examples.
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Raj Atluru, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson- Keynote Speaker PE Conference 4/2/08
Professionals who cling to old ways of thinking are likely to miss out on emerging opportunities, said Atluru.
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Jack Bovender Jr., chairman and CEO of HCA 4/2/08
“It’s a wonderful feeling to be private in a time when public markets are in such turmoil,” Bovender said, adding that the company can take a long-term view and align strategy and growth accordingly, without pressure to respond to quarterly demands from public shareholders.
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John B. Taylor 3/31/08
The inspiration for the “Taylor Rule,”a widely used calculation that guides the monetary policy of central banks as they set short-term interest rates, delivered a lecture to a standing-room-only audience at the Kellogg School on March 31.
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Cornel West, Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University 3/8/08
“We’re living in a moment in which there is an awakening taking place. … How do we define ourselves …  as persons who have slots in different structures, to play a part in this awakening, in melting this political ice age that we’ve been wrestling with for the last 28 years?”
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Robert L. Johnson, Founder and Chairman of RLJ Companies, Founder of Black Entertainment Television, Owner of the Charlotte Bobcats NBA Franchise 3/8/08
“If you take talented African-Americans and put resources and a vision behind them, you can penetrate [market] areas that, for whatever reason, have been under-penetrated.”
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Don Thompson, President, McDonald's USA 3/8/08
“Every one of us has a role to play,” Thompson said. “There are things we are called to do, and we don’t have a choice but to answer.”
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Dan Sharplin, CEO of Site-Controls 3/3/08
Sharplin addressed the Kellogg community at Environmental Sustainability Club event
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Mike Granoff, Founder of Maniv Energy Capital 2/28/08
Granoff addressed the Kellogg community at Environmental Sustainability Club event.
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Jeff Bell, Corporate VP of Global Marketing, Interactive Entertainment Business, Microsoft  2/20/08
“A great brand has to have an eternal and outrageous promise.”
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Satjiv Chahil, SVP of Global Marketing, PSG, Hewlett-Packard  2/20/08
“Provide a raison d’être for your company that everybody believes in.”
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Mike Shaver, Chief Evangelist, Mozilla Foundation  2/20/08
“Firefox is what I like to call a seven-year overnight success.”
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Andrew Code, founder of Chicago-based Code Hennessy & Simmons 2/4/08
Code addressed Kellogg students enrolled in the school's Part-Time MBA Program during a Feb. 4 visit sponsored by the Business Leadership Club.
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Pam Kaufman, Chief Marketing Officer, Nickelodeon/MTVN Kids and Family Group  1/26/08
“We are built on a kid-centered philosophy,” Kaufman told those gathered for the second of the two-day event. “We always have a kid point of view.”
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Michael Conway, Principal, Pharmaceutical and Medical Products Practice McKinsey & Co.  1/19/08
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William A. Kozy, Vice President, Becton, Dickinson and Company 1/19/08
In the last decade, companies have deployed a collective 200,000 scientists and spent $27 billion in developing potential solutions with “few winners,” said Kozy.
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Michael Moskow 1/16/08
“Politics are left at the door,” he said. “At the Fed, you know what you want to do, and then you go ahead and do it.”
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