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| 2009 | |
| Don Kohn, Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System 11/16/2009 Watch Video | |
| MacEachern Symposium 10/30/2009 These videos are password protected for the Kellogg Community Introduction: Joseph P. Newhouse Medical Technology Evaluation Read Story | |
| 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.” This video is password protected for the Kellogg community Watch Video | Read Story | |
| 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 Read Story | |
| 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. Watch Video | Read Story | |
| 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. Watch Video | Read Story | |
| 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. Watch Video | Read Story | |
| 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. Watch Video | Read Story | |
| 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. Watch Video | Read Story This video is password protected for the Kellogg community | |
| 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 Read Story | |
| 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. Watch Video | Read Story | |
| Tom Kelley, IDEO General Manager 5/19/2009 Kelley receives the Kellogg Award for Distinguished Leadership Watch Video | Read Story The video is password protected for the Kellogg community | |
| 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 5/13/2009 Philip W. Knisely, Executive Vice President Danaher Corp. Conrad Winkler, Vice President, Operations Practice Booz & Co. The following video is password protected for the Kellogg Community Peter C. Hawthorne, Vice President, Strategy & Business Development Cargill, Inc. Read Story | |
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"Innovation in Sustainability-focused finance" by Dave Chen '84 5/13/2009 Watch Video |
| Robert Shiller, Yale University Professor 5/05/2009 Shiller appeared as part of the Kellogg Distinguished Lecture Series Watch Video | Read Story The video is password protected for the Kellogg community | |
| Johns Hopkins Professor Michael Mandelbaum 5/05/2009 Mandelbaum appeared as part of the Kellogg Distinguished Lecture Series Watch Video | Read Story The video is password protected for the Kellogg community | |
| 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 Watch Video | Read Story | |
| 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 The following video is password protected for the Kellogg community Professor Lakshman Krishnamurthi: Competing in a Down Economy | |
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Ambassador John Herbst 4/30/2009 | |
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Sophia Siskel '99, President & CEO, Chicago Botanic Garden 4/24/2009 | |
| 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 '92 | Kishore Biyani | Vinod Dasari ’92, COO, Ashok Leyland | Read Story | |
| 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. Watch Video | Read Story | |
| 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. Watch Video | Read Story | |
| 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. Watch Video | Read Story This video is password protected for the Kellogg community | |
| 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. Prof. Robert Korajczyk: Update on the Kellogg Finance Department | Prof. Deborah Lucas: Rethinking Pensions in the 21st Century | Prof. Thomas Lys: Did the Sarbanes Oxley Act Make U.S. Capital Markets Less Competitive? | Prof. Mitchell Petersen | Read Story | |
| 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.” Watch video | Read Story | |
| 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.’” Watch video | Read Story | |
| Johnathan Rodgers-CEO of TV One 2/21/2009 Rogers delivered a keynote address at the 2009 Black Management Association Conference Watch video | Read Story This video is password protected for the Kellogg community | |
| 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 Watch video | Read Story This video is password protected for the Kellogg community | |
| Marc Morial - President and CEO, National Urban League 2/21/2009 Morial delivered a keynote address at the 2009 Black Management Association Conference Watch video | Read Story This video is password protected for the Kellogg community | |
| 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.” Keynote address: Jim Skinner, CEO McDonald's | Keynote Address: Dean Dipak C. Jain | Read Story | |
| Sylvia Nasar 2/19/2009 Sylvia Nasar appeared as part of the Kellogg Distinguished Lecture Series. Watch Video | Read Story This video is password protected for the Kellogg community | |
| 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. Watch video | Read Story | |
| Private Equity Conference 2009 Panel Discussions 2/14/2009 Opportunities in Today’s Market | Alumni Access | The Limited Partner Perspectives | Alumni Access The above videos are password protected for the Kellogg community. 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. Watch video | Read Story This video is password protected for the Kellogg community | |
| Vikas Kapoor, President and CEO, iQor, Inc. 2/14/2009 Kapoor addressed attendees at the Kellogg Private Equity & Venture Capital conference. Watch video | Read Story | |
| 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. Harnessing Power to Capture Leadership | Managing Corporate Reputation in Difficult Times | Banking for the Bottom of the Pyramid | Read Story | |
| 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. Watch Video | Read Story This video is password protected for the Kellogg community | |
| Bill Weldon, Director, CEO of Johnson & Johnson 1/26/2009 Bill Weldon addressed students as part of the CEO speaker Series Watch Video | Alumni Access | Read Story This video is password protected for the Kellogg community | |
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2009 Marketing Conference 1/24/2009 | |
| 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. Watch Video | Read Story | |
| 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.” Watch Video | Alumni Access | Read Story This video is password protected for the Kellogg community | |
| 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. Watch Video | Read Story | |
| John Wood, Room to Read 1/13/2009 John visited the Part-Time Program as part of the Beacon Capital Fellow Program. Watch Video | |
| 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. Keynote by Dean Jain | Keynote by Carlos Dominguez, Sr. | Panel Discussion | Read Story | |
| 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.” Watch Video | Read Story | |
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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.” Watch Video | Read Story | |
| William Quinn ‘91, managing director, Goldman Sachs 11/20/2008 Participating in a panel discussion at the Kellogg Risk Summit. Watch Video | Read Story This video is password protected for the Kellogg community | |
| 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. Watch Video | Read Story This video is password protected for the Kellogg community | |
| 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. Watch Video | Read Story | |
| 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. Watch Video | Read Story This video is password protected for the Kellogg community | |
| James B. Stewart, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist with the Wall Street Journal 11/18/2008 Watch Video | Read Story This video is password protected for the Kellogg community | |
| Elizabeth Bartlett-Flury, Dir., Clinical Integration, Johns Hopkins Health System 11/1/08 Watch Video | Read Story | |
| 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.” Watch Video | Read Story | |
| John Alexander, Vice President, Growth & Innovation, Whirlpool Corporation 10/31/08 Watch Video | Read Story This video is password protected for the Kellogg community | |
| 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. Watch Video | Read Story This video is password protected for the Kellogg community | |
| 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. Watch Video | Read Story This video is password protected for the Kellogg community. | |
| 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.” Watch Video | Read Story | |
| Jessica Flannery, Co-Founder of Kiva 10/08/08 Jessica was a keynote speaker at the Innovating Social Change Conference Watch Video | Read Story | |
| 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. Watch Video | Read Story | |
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Senior Associate Dean David Besanko explains the facts of U.S. presidential politics 10/10/08 | |
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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.” Watch Video | Read Story This video is password protected for the Kellogg community. |
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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. Watch Video | Read Story This video is password protected for the Kellogg community. |
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Fed bailout 9/26/08 Finance professors explain origin of Wall Street woes and respond to proposed solutions Watch Video | Read Story This video is password protected for the Kellogg community. |
| Janet Froetscher, President and CEO, National Safety Council 9/4/2008 Janet Froetscher addresses students during CIM activities. Watch Video | |
| 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. Watch Video | |
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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. Watch Video | Read Story |
| 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. Watch Video | |
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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. Watch Video | Read Story |
| 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.” Alumni Access | Kellogg Access | Read Story | |
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Kanwal Rekhi, Managing Director, Inventus Capital Partners 5/10/08 Rekhi spoke at the 2008 India Business conference Watch Video | Read Story |
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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. Alumni Access | Kellogg Access | Read Story |
| 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. Watch Video | Read Story | |
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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. Alumni Access | Kellogg Access | Read Story |
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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. Watch Video | Read Story |
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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?” Alumni Access | Kellogg Access | Read Story |
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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.” Alumni Access | Kellogg Access | Read Story |
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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.” Alumni Access | Kellogg Access | Read Story |
| Dan Sharplin, CEO of Site-Controls 3/3/08 Sharplin addressed the Kellogg community at Environmental Sustainability Club event Watch Video | |
| Mike Granoff, Founder of Maniv Energy Capital 2/28/08 Granoff addressed the Kellogg community at Environmental Sustainability Club event. Watch Video | |
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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.” Alumni Access | Kellogg Access | Read Story |
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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.” Alumni Access | Kellogg Access | Read Story |
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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.” Watch Video| Read Story |
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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. Watch Video | Read Story |
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Pam Kaufman, Chief Marketing Officer, Nickelodeon/MTVN Kids and Family Group 1/26/08 |
| Michael Conway, Principal, Pharmaceutical and Medical Products Practice McKinsey & Co. 1/19/08 Alumni Access | Kellogg Access | Read Story | |
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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. Alumni Access | Kellogg Access | Read Story |
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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.” Alumni Access | Kellogg Access | Read Story |
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