Stanford Executive Briefings

Structuring Strategic Business Alliances - DVD

Strategic alliances have become a regular part of business culture these days. So how do you know that the alliance will have a positive effect on each partner’s bottom line? Learn more

The Best Service is No Service - DVD

There is somewhat of a disconnect between how CEOs perceive their companies' customer service (they think it’s above-average) and how customers feel about said service (more of them leave dissatisfied than satisfied). Learn more

Competing on the Edge: Strategy as Structured Chaos - DVD

Instead of focusing on where you want to go, today's uncertain future requires that you focus on how you're going to get there. The process you need is structured chaos — a few simple rules setting priorities and responsibilities, and total creative freedom for business units within that framework. Learn more

Finding Untapped Growth in Existing Markets- DVD

Managers are under constant pressure to grow, but it is often difficult to find new avenues of growth within an existing line of business. Learn more

Red Queen Competition: A Dynamic View of Strategy- DVD

"Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place." So said the Red Queen, in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. The neo-classical model of business strategy is built on a theory of market equilibrium. Learn more

Staying Out of Legal Trouble- DVD

Protect your content and your brand—and stay out of hot water at your site. Know your risk of liability for defamation or copyright infringement, particularly in user-generated content. Privacy policy requirements and other privacy issues are also covered.

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Strategic Alliances: How to Negotiate, Influence and Deliver Results- DVD

Whether to beat stiff competition in your market, grow customer satisfaction, or pare your bottom line, strategic alliances are increasingly vital to your organization's success. Yet as many as two-thirds of new alliances fail to live up to expectations. Learn more

Emotion vs. Analytics: Decision Making and the Biased Brain - DVD

 

 

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Change Management and Strategic Planning - DVD

Strategic planning is the process of creating a wave of change while gaining commitment from your employees and other stakeholders necessary to make it happen. Yet, change inevitably engenders resistance. Learn more

Mindset, Motivation and Leadership - DVD

People are fairly evenly divided between those with either a growth or a fixed mindset about intelligence and talent. And leaders’ mindsets, Professor Dweck shows, influence their ability to grow on the job and to develop successful teams. Learn more

Creating the Future- DVD

The biggest risk today is irrelevancy. Barriers that protected incumbents in the past have broken down, and competitive positions can be quickly overturned. If you miss a trend, there may be no catching up. Learn more

The Stanford Video Guide to Negotiating/Financial Statements Combination Package - DVDs

Stanford professors Margaret Neale and George Parker explain two important business aspects, each presented with an enlightening dramatic twist. Learn more

Judo Strategy- DVD

Competition in business is healthy, but as with all things in life, someone’s going to win and someone’s going to lose. Learn more

Managing for Both Bottom and Top Line Performance- DVD

Managers have spent the past few years in a bunker mentality, ruled by cost-cutting and bottom-line retrenchment. Now that headcount and expenses have been cut to the bone, attention to the top line must once again reign supreme. Learn more

Managing Innovation - DVD

iRobot operated without venture capital and on a break-even basis for eight years, developing a number of products for industry and the military without commercial success. Learn more

Creating You and Company: How to Think Like the CEO of Your Own Career- DVD

The majority of Americans are employed, but there is a widespread sense that no one's job is secure. Temporary workers, contractors, and outsourced employees are doing the work that yesterday belonged to the organization's own full-time, long-term workers. Learn more

The Dilemmas of Team-Based Organizations- DVD

Many organizations today have flattened their traditional hierarchies and redistributed work to multi-functional teams. Learn more

Passion and Discipline: Don Quixote’s Lessons for Leadership - DVD

What lessons can Cervantes’ romantic knight from La Mancha offer the bottom-line world of today? Based on Professor Emeritus James G. March’s acclaimed course at the Stanford University School of Business, this program creatively examines how Quixote’s kind of self-knowledge might serve modern leadership. Learn more

How to Build a Brand - DVD

A successful brand builds customer trust and loyalty by being easily identifiable and consistent in quality and presentation. John Kilcullen describes the strategies and tactics that have taken his For Dummies® brand from one obscure computer manual to a publishing empire that touches on an incredible array of lifelong learning topics. Learn more

It Won't Happen Here- DVD

Disaster preparedness means planning for every aspect—before, during, and after. In addition to the precautions you need to take to prevent a disaster from occurring in the first place Learn more

Broadcasting Your Brand- DVD

A primer on ways to sprinkle your brand and your content throughout the Web using on-demand methods such as RSS, activity streaming through social channels such as Twitter and FriendFeed, widget embedded content, and shared application platforms. Learn more

Creative Thinking: Breaking New Ground for Creating Innovative Business Solutions- DVD

Great ideas are integral to success. Lynda Curtin gives you the tools to generate fresh ideas quickly and systematically. Learn more

Creativity in Business- DVD

Continual innovation is essential to succeed in today's challenging marketplace. Learn more

The Entrepreneurial Process: How to Make Your Dreams a Reality- DVD

Investors today are once again looking very closely before putting money into new ventures. Entrepreneurs have to be more prepared to make their case for getting a new idea off the ground. Using her own experiences as an entrepreneur, angel investor Learn more

The Power of Paranoia- DVD

Contrary to the common management belief that trust is an organizational asset, two decades of research on trust and cooperation in organizations have convinced Roderick Kramer that an appropriate amount of skepticism can in fact be beneficial in the workplace. Learn more