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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. 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 |
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Fred Smith, CEO FedEx 5/30/08 The Kellogg Business Leadership Club and the Office of the Dean presented Fred Smith — the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of FedEx — with the 2008 Kellogg Award for Distinguished Leadership on May 29. The event was held in the Donald P. Jacobs Center. Alumni Access | Kellogg and NU access | Read Story Note - this video will only be available for 90 days. |
| 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 and NU 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 and NU 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 and NU 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 and NU 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 and NU 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 and NU 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 and NU 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 and NU 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 and NU 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 and NU 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 and NU Access | Read Story |
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Pete McGlade 11/29/07 Pete McGlade, vice president for schedule planning at Southwest Airlines, spoke to several hundred members of the Kellogg and Northwestern communities in an event sponsored by the Kellogg Transportation Club. Alumni Access | Kellogg and NU Access |
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David J. FitzPatrick '77 11/29/07 “Companies that become arrogant become vulnerable. They engage in wishful thinking,” he said. “There are consequences, and we all know what those are.” Alumni Access | Kellogg and NU Access | Read Story |
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Jerry Kenney '67 11/29/07 Merrill Lynch & Co. Vice Chairman Jerome Kenney ’67, dissected more recent denial and wishful thinking in another sector of the economy: real estate. Alumni Access | Kellogg and NU Access | Read Story |
| William Lamar, Chief marketing officer for McDonald's USA 11/15/07 Business Leadership Program Alumni Access | Kellogg and NU Access | |
| Tony Elavia, Chief Investment Officer, NYLIM Equity Investors 11/14/07 Kellogg Finance Conference Alumni Access | Kellogg and NU Access | Read Story | |
| Tony Palmer 10/25/07 Marketing Club CMO Series, Tony Palmer, CMO of Kimberly-Clark Alumni Access | Kellogg and NU Access | |
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Dr. Sanjay Gupta 10/25/07 "Every morning when you wake up, focus on what your sense of purpose is for that day. What is your sense of purpose on earth, and how are you going to better the world in some way?” Alumni Access | Kellogg and NU Access | Read Story |
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Brian Domeck '87 10/18/07 “You have to be willing to spend money on advertising,” the Kellogg graduate said, citing several providers who have recently increased their advertising budgets. Alumni Access | Kellogg and NU Access | Read Story |
| Mobile Marketing 10/16/07 Mobile Marketing and Advertising Talk presented by eMarketer CEO Geoff Ramsey and Professor Patrick Duparcq Watch Video | |
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Olympian and alumnus Jim Scherr visits Kellogg 10/09/07 “Take accountability and make decisions,” he told students during his visit. “Decisions will make themselves unless you make them when they hit your desk.” Watch Video | Read Story |
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Innovating Social Change Keynote, Ron Grzywinksi, Chairman, ShoreBank Corporation 10/03/07 “Business leaders are also expected to be citizen leaders,” Grzywinski told an audience of students, academics and practitioners at the James L. Allen Center. Watch Video | Read Story |
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Northern Trust president, Rick Waddell, delivers Kellogg CIM address 09/05/07 “Sometimes I think we forget that element of management and of leadership,” Waddell said. “But in the end, it’s about people.” Watch Video | Read Story |
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MBA Convocation 2007 06/25/07 "Having been dean the last six years, we celebrate one of our finest days as teachers and deans to congratulate future leaders." Watch Video (Full Convocation) | Read Story |
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William Perez, Convocation 2007 06/17/07 "Mentoring will not be optional, but essential, and will define your success as a leader." Watch Video (Keynote) | Read Story |
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Patrick Ryan , EMBA Convocation 2007 06/12/07 Creativity, teamwork, passion and the value of service were among the attributes of success cited by Patrick G. Ryan ’59 in his address to 176 graduates of the Kellogg Executive MBA Program. Watch Video (Keynote) | Read Story |
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'Sound' business 05/17/07 The halls were alive with the sound of music on May 15 as a special guest brought his unique brand of leadership to the Kellogg School. Introduction | Miha's Introduction | Musical Implementaion | The Performance | Read Story |
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Shailesh Rao - Manufacturing Business Conference 05/12/07 “To succeed in this challenging and hard-to-organize world you have to think differently, try different things,” said Rao. (This video is for the Kellogg community only and requires an Alumni ID or a NU NetID) Alumni Access | Kellogg and NU Access | Read Story |
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Service with a style 05/02/07 “One of my tasks is to build up the brand,” said Paul Zeven, CEO of Philips North America. “Building the brand is a multiple-year project. Building the brand costs a lot of money. Building a reputation is very difficult.” (This video is for the Kellogg community only and requires an Alumni ID or a NU NetID) Alumni Access | Kellogg and NU Access | Read Story |
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Matthew O. Jackson, Nancy Schwartz Memorial Lecture 04/25/07 Jackson, a professor in the Kellogg School’s Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences Department from 1988 until 1997, delivers the 25th annual Nancy Schwartz Memorial Lecture. His subject: the economic implications of social interaction. Watch Video | Read Story |
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Distinguished Entrepreneur Speaker Series 04/18/07 Nature may abhor a vacuum, but it loves the vacuum man, if David Oreck’s 40-plus years of entrepreneurial success offer any measure. (This video is for the Kellogg community only and requires an Alumni ID or a NU NetID) Alumni Access | Kellogg and NU Access | Read Story |
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Sam Zell 04/11/07 2007 Kellogg Award for Distinguished Leadership recipient “I have to be able to sell my ideas to my own people, get their buy-in, or else we won’t succeed,” said Zell. (This video is for the Kellogg community only and requires an Alumni ID or a NU NetID) Alumni Access | Kellogg and NU Access | Read Story |
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Patricia Woertz, ADM President, Chair and CEO 04/02/07 To have integrity as a leader is to be honest and upstanding, but perhaps more than that, “it’s really about wholeness,” said Woertz . “It’s about bringing your whole self to the job.” Watch Video | Read Story |
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2007 India Business Conference 03/06/07 By serendipity or cosmic design, the Kellogg School’s India Business Conference coincided with Holi, the Hindu Festival of Colors, on March 3. Ronen Sen | Panel 1 | Rajat Gupta | Panel 2 | Read Story (The following video is for the Kellogg community only and requires an Alumni ID or a NU NetID) Dr. Shashi Tharoor Alumni | Kellogg and NU |
