The Faculty Seminar Series features the work of leading professors from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Harvard Business School to your desktop to share innovative new ideas, practical insights, and groundbreaking research that will have an immediate impact on your business. Each title in the series includes

• Video and audio of a classroom lecture
• Synchronized slides illustrating the presentation
• A link to a companion website with additional resources selected by the faculty
• A learning guide with strategies for exploring the material

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Accounting in the Wake of Scandal: Stock Options and Global Standards
Mary E. Barth

Significant changes are on the horizon within the accounting industry. How will these reforms impact your company? Recent accounting scandals have brought corporate governance and public disclosure under intense scrutiny. Professor Mary E. Barth discusses the board’s efforts to create global accounting standards that produce credible and transparent results. Topics covered: Finance and Accounting; Global Business; Governance. Product #4112C

Competing in High-Velocity Industries
William P. Barnett

Why is it so difficult for firms to gain—and remain in—a position of competitive advantage? Professor William Barnett highlights the real, but unseen, dilemma facing executives who may be harming their organizations' competitiveness through well-intended strategies. Drawing on extensive research, Barnett reconsiders the founding premises of modern strategic management theory and proposes a very different approach. Topics covered: Change, Strategy, Management, Organizational Behavior. Product #5852C

Corporate Social Responsibility
David Brady

Accounting scandals, excessive CEO pay, and cross-cultural global management challenges have forced business leaders to take responsibility for how their individual and corporation's actions affect all stakeholders. In this presentation, Professor David Brady shares his perspective on what accounts for a corporation's social responsibility efforts. He defines different ethical views and the various ways corporations can implement the tenets of social responsibility, and shares examples of firms that have been both successful and unsuccessful in instilling a responsible corporate social element. Product #4028C

Strategy is Destiny: A Perspective on Strategic Leadership
Robert A. Burgelman

What role does intuition play in leadership? What separates a great strategist from a great visionary? Professor Burgelman argues that a company's strategic leadership capability is critical for adaptation and high performance, especially in highly dynamic environments. Topics covered: Leadership; Strategy. Product #5836C

Strategy is Destiny Tool I: A Perspective on Strategic Leadership
Robert A. Burgelman

What is strategic leadership? How can leaders capitalize on external and internal sources of change, stimulate debate, and motivate people to take action? In this presentation, Professor Robert A. Burgelman presents a perspective on strategic leadership and a tool for diagnosing the forces that drive evolution within a business. By focusing on the big picture, leaders will learn how to analyze and capitalize on external and internal sources of change. Topics covered: Change; Leadership; Organizational Development; Strategy. Product #3250C

Strategy is Destiny Tool II: An Evolutionary Framework of the Strategy-Making Process
Robert A. Burgelman

How can leaders exploit current business opportunities while developing new ones? What organizational designs best facilitate this? How can leaders stimulate the strategic renewal process? In this presentation, Professor Robert A. Burgelman presents a framework for examining the alignment between strategy and action. The framework balances the exploitation of current opportunities with the exploration of opportunities in new environments. This session will provide leaders with an understanding of the fundamental strategy-making processes in established companies and the strategic leadership challenges associated with them. Topics covered: Change; Leadership; Organizational Development; Strategy. Product #3269C

Strategy is Destiny Tool III: Internal Corporate Venturing
Robert A. Burgelman

How can leaders overcome managerial, strategic, and structural impediments to new business development? What are the interlocking strategic leadership activities that constitute the innovation process? In this presentation, Professor Robert A. Burgelman presents a framework for understanding how an organization's strategic leadership capability is critical to adaptation and high performance, especially in highly dynamic environments. Through this focus on the details of the strategic activities involved in new business development, Professor Burgelman examines the leadership activities of executives at different levels in the organization. He also explains how the strategy-making process can drive corporate innovation and entrepreneurship. Topics covered: Change; Leadership; Organizational Development; Strategy. Product #3277C

The Power of Paranoia
Roderick M. Kramer

As crises such as the September 11th terrorist attacks and the collapse of Enron have shown, blindly abiding by the belief that trust is a strength now seems dangerously naïve. Professor Roderick M. Kramer presents results from two decades of research on trust and cooperation in organizations. His research findings have convinced him that distrust can indeed be a key ingredient in organizational effectiveness, contrary to the view espoused in most popular management literature. Topics covered: Communications; Management; Organizational Behavior; Organizational Development. Product #6271C

Sales Force Compensation and Incentives
Edward P. Lazear

By replacing hourly wages with commission pay, the new CEO of a windshield installation company increased sales force productivity by more than 40 percent. Starting with this compelling example, Professor Edward Lazear describes why sales force compensation is such a powerful lever and how managers can think creatively about pay structures while ensuring that these incentives are aligned with corporate goals. Topics covered: Finance and Accounting; Organizational Behavior; Sales and Marketing. Product #1547C

The Value of Hierarchies
Harold J. Leavitt

In this presentation, Professor Harold J. Leavitt discusses the pros and cons of organizational hierarchies. He argues that hierarchies exist for good, pragmatic reasons. And, that instead of killing top-down, boss-driven organizations, technological and social advances have actually helped reinforce them. This presentation will help managers understand organizational hierarchies and focus on the importance of establishing an authoritative presence while maintaining integrity within these structures. Product #4036C

Winners (Don’t) Take All
Margaret A. Neale

Despite all we've heard about win-win deals, very few managers are really skilled at creating value or expanding the pie in negotiation settings. In this presentation, Professor Margaret Neale explores the psychological barriers to successful negotiation, providing a variety of interpersonal and organizational examples. Topics covered: Communications; Ethics; Management. Product #368XC

Women Negotiating Well
Margaret A. Neale

Why are women so reluctant to negotiate? What is the cost of not asking? In this presentation, Professor Margaret A. Neale discusses the effects of gender and expectations on negotiating performance. She demonstrates the power our expectations have to sabotage our success, and presents a series of studies that help us understand how subtle stereotypes within our minds can affect our performance. Product #9-456-7C

Building Effective and Efficient Personal Networks
Joel M. Podolny

Once considered subversive, personal networks are now recognized as important drivers of performance and influence in organizations. In this presentation, Professor Joel Podolny reviews the history and research on networks and argues that while networks have enormous potential, creating an effective, efficient network is a complex endeavor. Topics covered: Management; Organizational Behavior. Product #2071C

Built to Last: Beyond Charismatic Visionary Leaders
Jerry I. Porras

What does it takes to be a great leader? And what if I don’t fit the mold of the charismatic visionary… am I doomed to mediocrity? In this lecture, Professor Jerry I. Porras focuses on a different model of leadership, one that has served leaders of enduringly great organizations quite well for generations. Topics covered: Change; Leadership; Organizational Behavior. Product #5879C

Accessing Your Creativity: Overcoming the Challenges of Time and Stress
Michael L. Ray

Most of us believe that the only constant is change. But, in fact, there is another constant: our own inner resource. In these times of change, continuous innovation is required for competitive advantage in business. And in order to promote constant innovation, it is imperative to tap into people’s inner creative resources so as to fully leverage the rest of their skills, thus making their work more meaningful and allowing them to contribute to the best of their abilities. Topics covered: Change; Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Organizational Behavior. Product #5313C

Organizational Design for Performance and Growth
John Roberts

It is one thing to have a great strategy; it's another thing to make it work. Strategy is implemented through the organization of the firm. Thus, one of the fundamental responsibilities of general managers is to design the organization of their businesses. In this presentation, Professor John Roberts outlines some fundamental concepts and tools useful in putting together a winning organization that can deliver on the strategy. Topics covered: Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Management; Organizational Behavior; Organizational Development. Product #1088C

Brand Equity: Measuring, Analyzing, and Predicting
V. Seenu Srinivasan

What is brand equity? How do we understand its value and its sources? How can we predict changes in profit, based on investment in brand? In this presentation, Professor V. Seenu Srinivasan shares his research on measuring, analyzing, and predicting a brand’s equity in a product market. Topics covered: Communications; Sales and Marketing; Strategy.
Product #1053C

Fostering Innovation: 11½ Weird Ideas that Work
Robert I. Sutton

Most managers try to develop new ideas by relying on the practices and perspectives that made them successful today. In this presentation, Professor Bob Sutton argues that those approaches that help a company succeed now are exactly what limits innovation and creativity. Topics covered: Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Management; Organizational Behavior; Organizational Development. Product #1555C

Super Bowl Science: Sports Betting and Behavioral Science
Justin Wolfers

Is there any science to sports betting? Can you beat the line consistently? In this lecture celebrating and debunking sports trivia, Stanford professor Justin Wolfers examines the sports-betting industry as a metaphor to better understand human psychology and the broader financial markets. Topics covered: Finance and Accounting; Organizational Behavior. Product #4104C

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