University Of Chicago Booth School Of Business Podcast Series

At the Tata India Business Conference, held at Chicago Booth, founder of Sycamore Networks, Gururaj "Desh" Deshpande, urges entrepreneurs to follow their convictions.

In the aftermath of President Bush's "axis of evil" speech, the North Korean and Iranian nuclear programs have become front page news in newspapers around the USA. Gary Samore, Vice President of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, speaks on the impact of nuclear proliferation on the American business community.

The European Private Equity and Investment Banking Roundtable featured Steve Schlenker, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of DN Capital, who discusses challenges and opportunities in early stage investing.

Christie Hefner was the keynote speaker at the spring conference of the Committee of 200, an organization of top female entrepreneurs and executives. She discusses the need for more women to blaze the trail to the executive suite so the idea of who can be successful is changed for business people of both sexes.

The president of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus, discusses why he thinks the European Union is marching in the wrong direction

Never mind what Warren Buffett says. Money managers who earn enormous paychecks deserve what they make, according to panelists discussing the market for talent in finance at the inaugural conference at the Gary S. Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory Founded by Richard O. Ryan, '66 at Hyde Park Center April 7. Panelists included Andrew Rosenfield, Nancy Zimmerman, Kevin Murphy, Dick Elden, and Steven Levitt.

150 member states have agreed to abandon a bit of sovereignty to the WTO... that's extraordinary. France's Foreign Trade Minister visits GSB to speak to students.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, founder and co-chair of Biocon, Ltd., Asia's largest biotech firm, started her journey by learning to brew beer. She became a master brewer in Australia and went home to India, where the brewing community promptly rejected her. On the rebound, she came across an Irish biotech entrepreneur who asked her if she'd like to start a biotech company in India.

Nandan Nilekani, CEO and co-founder of Infosys, the Indian software giant, discusses the company's meteoric growth and the rise of globalization. As part of the GSB's Distinguished Speaker Series, Nilekani and Infosys Consulting CEO Stephen Pratt spoke to students assembled for a fireside chat at the Hyde Park Center March 28.

To keep the economy healthy, it's critical to clamp down on expectations of inflation, and the Fed plays a crucial role in doing so, said Michael Moskow, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

What Price Are We Willing to Pay For Clean Energy? Chicago Booth Distinguished Speaker Series with GE Chief Marketing Officer David Slump and dean Edward Snyder.

Myron Scholes, '64 speaks to students on February 28, 2006 as a part of Chicago Booth's Distinguished Speaker Series.

John Edwardson discusses building corporate culture at the Alumni Entrepreneur Conference. February 16, 2006.

David Neeleman talks about setting a standard for all companies. January 20, 2006.