Stanford GSB: View From The Top

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Prominent leaders from around the world join MBA students for conversations on effective leadership, core values, and lessons learned throughout their careers. View From The Top, the podcast, is based on the dean’s speaker series at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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Lily Sloane
Jenny Luna

Goal Setting with Szu-Chi Huang

How do you follow through with a goal when you're mid way there and motivation waivers? How can wellness trackers help you achieve your goals? Stanford professor Szu-Chi Huang and Stanford Insights sit down to talk about her research on goal setting.

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Authenticity with Glenn Carrol

Consumers really care about authenticity, but what makes something the real deal? Stanford professor Glenn Carroll and Stanford Insights sit down to talk about his research on authenticity.

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The End of Privacy with Michal Kosinski

What does the end of privacy look like? Stanford GSB professor Michal Kosinski shares with Stanford Insights his optimistic vision of a world with less privacy but more tolerance.

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Diverse Teams with Margaret Neale

Diverse teams lead to more innovation. Stanford professor Margaret Neale talks with Stanford Insights about why it's so hard to create and maintain diverse teams.

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Sheryl Sandberg: Careers Aren't Ladders, They're Jungle Gyms

In a visit to Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2017, Sheryl Sandberg advised students against making a strict plan for their careers, because "you’re going to miss all the good stuff — all the good stuff hasn’t been invented yet!"
Sandberg also spoke openly about the sudden loss of her husband, Dave Goldberg, in 2015. “When Dave died, I didn’t think I was capable of anything. I could barely go to work and not cry. I was parenting two grieving children,” she says.
Listen to Sheryl Sandberg in conversation with Julie Sawaya, MBA '17.
Stanford GSB’s View From The Top is the Dean’s premier speaker series. It launched in 1978 and is supported in part by the F. Kirk Brennan Speaker Series Fund. During student-led interviews and before a live audience, leaders from around the world share insights on effective leadership, their personal core values, and lessons learned throughout their career.

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Mitt Romney: Why You Should Have More in Your Life Than Just Work

When Mitt Romney first talked to Bill Bain about joining Bain & Company, Romney was clear about one thing: “I have to have all day Sunday off. If that’s something the firm can’t accept, then I’m probably not the right guy for the firm.” He ended up getting the job and leading its momentous growth. Romney later co-founded the spin-off company, Bain Capital, which grew to become one of the largest private equity investment firms in the nation. In 2003, Romney entered politics, serving as the governor of Massachusetts for four years. He is the current senator-elect from Utah.
“Have more in your life than just work,” Romney tells Stanford GSB students during his View From The Top conversation with Ryan Harper, MBA ’15. “I found that if you take a block of time off for yourself, you may well be more productive than if you don’t.”
Stanford GSB’s View From The Top is the Dean’s premier speaker series. It launched in 1978 and is supported in part by the F. Kirk Brennan Speaker Series Fund. During student-led interviews and before a live audience, leaders from around the world share insights on effective leadership, their personal core values, and lessons learned throughout their career.

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Oprah Winfrey: Failure Is the Thing Moving You Forward

"Stop the crazy mind chatter in your head that tells you that you are not good enough,” said Oprah Winfrey during a visit to Stanford Graduate School of Business. She advised students that even when their long-term goals are unclear, the important thing is to banish self-doubt and continue forward, no matter how small the step. "The way through the challenge is to get still and ask yourself, 'What is the next right move?’ and then, from that space, make the next right move and then the next right move."
Listen to Oprah’s conversation with Amanda Facelle, MBA ’14, on leadership, education, and following your “inner GPS.”
Stanford GSB’s View From The Top is the Dean’s premier speaker series. It launched in 1978 and is supported in part by the F. Kirk Brennan Speaker Series Fund. During student-led interviews and before a live audience, leaders from around the world share insights on effective leadership, their personal core values, and lessons learned throughout their career.

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Sara Blakely: Share Your Failures

Almost every entrepreneur in the U.S. knows the story of how Spanx started: Sara Blakely, then 27, was prepping for a party when she realized she didn’t have the right undergarment to wear under white pants. To solve the issue she pulled out a pair of scissors and cut the feet off her pantyhose. Thus, Spanx was born.
In April of 2018, Blakely visited Stanford GSB and was interviewed by Sarah AlBanna, MBA '18. Listen to their conversation on this podcast:
Stanford GSB’s View From the Top is the Dean’s premier speaker series. It launched in 1978 and is supported in part by the F. Kirk Brennan Speaker Series Fund. During student-led interviews and before a live audience, leaders from around the world share insights on effective leadership, their personal core values, and lessons learned throughout their career.

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Magic Johnson: Understand Your Customers and Over-Deliver

Magic Johnson is known globally for his success as one of the all-time great NBA stars.. The Michigan native played 13 seasons for the LA Lakers before shooting for new ventures like starting a record label, a promotional company, and a chain of movie theaters.
During a visit to Stanford Graduate School of Business, Johnson joined Kara Hollis, MBA ’16, in a conversation on how he began his career transition well before he was off the court and why his competitive nature drives him to “over-deliver.”
Listen to the episode on View From The Top, the podcast.
Stanford GSB’s View From The TopView From the Top is the Dean’s premier speaker series. It launched in 1978 and is supported in part by the F. Kirk Brennan Speaker Series Fund. During student-led interviews and before a live audience, leaders from around the world share insights on effective leadership, their personal core values, and lessons learned throughout their career.

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Jeffrey Katzenberg: Be Original, Be Unique, Be Risky

Getting fired while seemingly at the apogee of a career would faze most executives. But it only took Jeffrey Katzenberg eight days to recover after being shown the door at Disney, where he’d headed its motion picture division for 10 years. In just over a week, he teamed with Hollywood heavyweights Steven Spielberg and David Geffen to launch DreamWorks, where they turned out hits including Saving Private Ryan, Castaway, A Beautiful Mind, and Shrek.
Listen to the former Dreamworks CEO on an episode of View From the Top, the podcast:

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