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Top business executives arrived on campus this spring to address audiences eager to hear their insight on a range of timely topics. Videos and synopses of all talks during the Annenberg Leadership and Management Speaker Series, including those by Jennifer Tour Chayes and Jim Simons, are available online at
www.hmc.edu/about/administrativeoffi ces/collegeadvancement1/
annenbseries.html.
Ernest Cockrell, chairman, Cockrell Interests Inc. and president and director of The Cockrell Foundation, director and chairman, Reasoning Mind
“In the simplest terms, leadership starts not so much with what skill sets leaders have but with their freedoms. It is our freedoms that give rise to the hope and point to actions that have the potential of success, regardless of the risk involved.”
Nabeel Gareeb ’86/87, former chief executive offi cer, MEMC Electronic Materials Inc.
“I’ve never found any place where you can work only smart and not [also] work hard. If you simplify the process enough, you will reduce the opportunity for error to where you get the lowest cost process with the highest quality.”
Dina Dublon, former chief fi nancial offi cer, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
“The CEO we have tended to admire in the past two or three decades has been the one who could get the biggest return in the shortest possible time. That kind of hard-edged leader— delivering return on capital at no matter what emotional or social cost—is, in my opinion, yesterday’s leader.”
Dublon
Alok Aggarwal, co-founder and chairman, Evalueserve
“We need to make sure that our students, we ourselves, question why is it this and not that. As the generation which is going to be old and passed soon, we need to make sure that the next generation knows to ask, and learns to ask why and how.”
Aggarwal
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