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Also Available for Purchase
Faculty Seminar CD Series
Each program featuring a leading professor from the Stanford Graduate School of Business or the Harvard Business School shares innovative new ideas. Each title includes:
1. Video and Audio of a classroom lecture
2. Synchronized slides illustrating the presentation
3. A link to additional resources
4.
A learning guide
Breakfast Briefings DVDs
Stanford faculty members and business leaders share ideas that can help improve the way you do business.
These cases may be ordered online. The price is $75 for academic and
individual use and $150 for corporate use. See ordering information below.
DVD Case Videos
Details for ordering these videos are included in the page connected to each program. In many cases there is also written material available.
The Paths to Power Series
Developed by Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer for his MBA course Paths to Power,
these videos supplement written course materials and showcase protagonists
addressing issues presented in the written case. Course topics include:
- sources of power
- dealing with resistance and obstacles
- obtaining allies and supporters
- maintaining power
- preparing oneself to obtain power
- diagnosing the political landscape
- the use of language and symbolism in exercising power
Laura Esserman.04 - Driving Change
[Preview]
Laura Esserman, a surgeon and faculty member at the University of California
at San Francisco, is engaged in a major effort to change the delivery of
breast cancer services and the information systems used to support both
research and patient care. In this video, she shares her thoughts about how
she could have done things differently and what might help her drive the
change she is trying to make.
Laura Esserman.05 - Being an Effective Leader
[Preview]
In this second video, Esserman shares her own experiences and what she
learned about being an effective leader and successfully driving change. She
discusses the importance of getting feedback and says that being passionate,
sure of yourself, and right is not enough.
Keith
Ferrazzi - People and Relationships
[ Preview]
Keith Ferrazzi, a graduate of Harvard Business School, became the youngest
chief marketing officer of a Fortune 500 company (Starwood) and later was
the CEO of a successful high-tech start-up. Inc. magazine wrote an article
detailing his amazing ability to build networks and social relationships.
Ferrazzi speaks about the difference between insecurity and lack of
confidence, his genuine love of people, and the importance of hard work.
Gary Loveman - Succeeding as an Outsider
[ Preview]
Gary Loveman, an untenured associate professor at Harvard Business School
who had little management experience, became COO of Harrah’s, managing 15
casinos with more than 10,000 hotel rooms and over 35,000 employees. The
gaming industry was dominated by insiders who had spent their careers in
gaming, working their way up from the bottom. In the video, Loveman
highlights what factors helped him succeed.
Jack Valenti - Lessons Learned
[Preview]
Jack Valenti, long time Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the
Motion Picture Association, was world renowned for his shaping of the
American film and television industry. Valenti shares what he learned from
his experience in powerful positions, including the importance of helping
people out, never getting personal, and never forgetting an obligation.
Rudy Crew.04 - Changing the Impossible
[Preview]
Rudy Crew, Miami-Dade County school superintendent and former chancellor of
New York public schools, speaks about his experience as NYC chancellor. Crew
discusses viewing NYC as made of many small pieces in order to make the
change, breaking inertia by creating a “shock effect,” and the importance of
proving that he could bring change that nobody believed was possible.
Rudy Crew.05 - What Guides a Leader
[Preview]
In this second video, Rudy Crew speaks about his path to power, what drives
him, and his views of leadership. He discusses his choice to be the voice
for urban schooling and his belief that a leader is guided by his or her own
internal compass.
The Social Entrepreneurship Series
Video cases in this series developed by Professor Jim Phills address
social entrepreneurship, helping students appreciate mechanisms of change
and theories of action as well as challenges in initiating and sustaining
meaningful change in social sectors. These video cases are intended to be
used with their accompanying text cases.
The Evolution of Interplast
[Preview]
Established in the late 1960s, Interplast was the first international
humanitarian organization to send American medical professionals overseas to
provide free reconstructive surgery to children and adults in developing
countries. This video case details the growth of Interplast and the debates
that arose when the organization shifted away from direct service, instead
focusing on education and empowerment of local professionals.
Innermotion on the Move
[Preview]
A non-profit organization founded in 1990, Innermotion was a dance company
that presented performances based on themes related to incest and childhood
sexual abuse as well as therapeutic workshops for survivors of such abuse.
The video case showcases Innermotion’s reexamination of its focus when funds
were cut.
Circus Oz
[Preview]
Circus Oz was Australia's premier international circus. The A segment of the
video case explores the quandary that arose from the Australia Council's
offer to fund a development officer position, largely as a way for Circus Oz
to increase income from corporate sponsorships and reduce reliance on
government support. The B segment covers the resolution of the dilemma
around hiring a development director.
Social Entrepreneurs: Correcting Market Failure
[Preview]
A “market failure” occurs when important social problems are not solved or
social needs go unmet due to neglect or inaction in the private sector, even
though the technological, financial, and human means exist to address these
problems or needs. This video case details the efforts of three “social
entrepreneurs” who brought innovative ideas, used entrepreneurial skills,
and leveraged market principles to “correct” these market failures.
Rubicon Program's Corporate Strategy
[Preview]
In response to the closure of California state psychiatric hospitals,
Rubicon Programs was established in 1973 to provide social services for
recently deinstitutionalized individuals suffering from mental illness. This
video case explores Rubicon’s deliberations about corporate strategy and
whether more value would be created by remaining one organization with
multiple divisions or by spinning off certain divisions.
Additional Videos
Lafarge: Market Entry Into Romania
[Preview]
This video was developed by Professor Bruce McKern, director of the Sloan
Master’s Program, as part of his course on international business. It
captures a discussion between McKern, and Frédéric Fleuret, director of
corporate projects of Lafarge Group, about Lafarge’s acquisition and
integration of the Romanian construction materials firm Romcim. It is
intended to be used with the accompanying text case.
