University Of Chicago Booth School Of Business Podcast Series

Brian Barry, John Cochrane, Steven Kaplan and Raghuram Rajan offer their perspectives on some likely consequences as well as possible steps to resolve it and lessen its impact without setting terrible precedents. The panel was the wrap-up for a four part series hosted by the Initiative on Global Markets.

Leszek Balcerowicz, former deputy prime minister and minister of finance of Poland, discusses transitional economies at a Myron Scholes Global Markets Forum event. Mr. Balcerowicz had an enormous influence on his country’s quick transformation from a communist to market-driven economy.

This broadcast features Steven Kaplan, Neubauer Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, speaking at the 2008 Management Conference. He shares his research on how successful CEOs are efficient, proactive, and persistent.

This broadcast features Jesse Shapiro, assistant professor of economics addressing a Becker Brown Bag Lunch for students. He shares his research into media bias and demonstrates that media demand is linked to broader economic forces.

This broadcast features two CEOs, Bill McComb, of Liz Claiborne Inc., and Andris Cukurs, Suzlon Wind Energy Corporation. Both are GSB alumni and were participating in the Charles M. Har per Road to CEO series. They shared their views and experiences with students in an informal fireside chat.

This broadcast features a Gordon Crovitz, former publisher of the Wall Street Journal. Crovitz looks at the question of “How Will Newspapers Survive?” and discusses how identifying and exploiting change can make old media new again. He highlights five change that can help newspapers.

This broadcast features Gururaj Deshpande, the billionaire chairman of Sycamore Networks, addressing the TechVision 2008 conference which looked at key issues and trends in high tech. Deshpande predicted technology innovation will focus on energy and life sciences.

Daniel Esty, professor of environmental law and policy at Yale University, talks about how CEO’s can turn “Green into Gold”. His remarks focus the growing trend where businesses take environmental issues into account when developing their core strategy.

Ralph Alvarez, president and COO of McDonalds, talks about strategy and why getting the basics right are important. As Alvarez discussed, "when you have a problem, you get permission to make radical changes."

This broadcast features the CEO of Credit Suisse Group, Brady Dougan, AB ’81, MBA ’82. Dougan discusses innovation in an industry he feels “recreates itself every 20 years or so.”

When it comes right down to it, marketing is about making money, said Sergio Zyman, chairman and founder of Zyman Group and former chief marketing officer of the Coca-Cola Company. “My philosophy of marketing is the philosophy of business, which is to sell more stuff to more people more often for more money more efficiently,” Zyman said in a keynote address at a conference hosted by student-led Chicago Booth Marketing Group October 15 at the Harper Center.

This broadcast features James Kilts, MBA '74 and former CEO of Gillette. Kilts shares advice from his new book Doing What Matters: How to Get Results That Make a Difference – The Revolutionary Old-School Approach at Chicago Booth Global Leadership Series.

The rise of capitalism in China doesn't mean they're becoming more like the West says Tom Doctoroff, '89, CEO of J. Walter Thompson's Greater China division and author of "Billions". He discusses common mistakes corporations make when doing business in China.

This broadcast features William McComb, '87, CEO of Liz Claiborne and Mary Ann Tolan, '92 (XP-61), founder and CEO of Accretive Health, moderated by Dean Edward Snyder. They discuss how to make goals specific and simple enough to enable the enterprise, teams and individual employees to implement them. The panel was part of the 55th Annual Management Conference.

Despite fierce economic competition provided by such emerging countries as Pakistan and China, the developed world must resist the temptation to legislate economic security, according to Baroness Valerie Amos, leader of the House of Lords and lord president of the council of the United Kingdom.

There's nothing like a little competition to suddenly boost productivity. Competition forced miners to double the amount of iron ore they dug per hour, as told in one case study. In another, competition forced concrete companies to become more efficient or go under, said Chad Syverson, associate professor of economics at the University of Chicago and a productivity specialist. Syverson spoke to students and faculty at a Brown Bag lunch lecture hosted by The Becker Center of Chicago Price Theory and sponsored by Vishal Verma, '07 (XP-76), May 10 at the Charles M. Harper Center.

Former President of Mexico, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, took a historical look at the risks threatening globalization's resilience. Currently the director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, Zedillo reminded attendees at the Myron Scholes Global Markets Forum Series of the "destructive power of government."

Increased demand for skilled workers has created wage inequality between those who have college degrees and those who don't in the United States, but the news isn't all bad, according to Kevin Murphy, George J. Stigler Distinguished Service Professor of Economics.

Microfinance is not as a suite of social products, it's a platform for social development through business, according to Alex Counts, president of the Grameen Foundation.

This broadcast features Nobel Laureate Gary Becker, University Professor of Economics and of Sociology. The GSB's Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory hosted the first in a series of lunchtime discussions. Professor Becker talks about the benefits of setting a price for immigration.