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You just gotta ride it!!!
Entrepreneurship Prof.Peter Bryant in a roller coaster talks about the ups & downs of entrepreneurship.
As Entrepreneurship Prof. Peter Bryant puts it “Change and I have a relationship”. Years ago he studied philosophy and history at Harvard and Cambridge Universities. Then he shifted gear to a number of management roles in different industries, including Qantas Airways, Deloitte and A&B Venture Capital, plus being responsible for the creation of a number of spin-off companies. Two of these spin-offs were successfully launched on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX), and another attracted early stage venture capital investment. But his relationship with Change was far from over, and in late 2006 he transformed into a professor. Allow me to quote now a young poet, Charles Olsen, from New Zealand, not very far from Prof. Bryant´s homeland, Australia:
It´s the way things go
that somehow changes all I know
of the world I see, that bring us
closer than I never thought we could be.
That´s what it is. Once you start a conversation with Peter, you´ll be impressed by his knowledge, his great advice, and the kind of person he is. You just gotta try it!!!
After the shooting of this video on a beautiful Saturday afternoon, we had lunch together. It looked though that I had not had enough of his company because I asked him to join me in the evening to go to a nice live music club.
It´s the way things go…the way things go.
A Special Marriage
Strategic Management Prof. Caterina Moscheri talks in Cambridge about M&A.
Before Professor of Strategic Management Caterina Moscheri gives an address on corporate governance at a conference being held at Judge Business School in Cambridge, we have agreed to shoot this video about a “Special Marriage”.
8 a.m. We don’t have much time before she is due to speak, but on the plus side we are very pleasantly surprised to find that despite a horrendous weather forecast, the sky is blue and the sun is shining. So England 1, rest of the World 0. As Shakespeare said, “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”.
In this video Professor Moscheri talks about one of the subjects of her research, Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As), and takes us to a rugby pitch, King’s College…
By the time we finish, the sky is gray and threatening rain. So now it’s England 1, rest of the world 1.
Finita la Comedia!!!
Professor Moscheri is fluent in several European languages, and runs almost every day.
P.S. Did you know that Pink Floyd is a Cambridge Band? Also she recommended an excellent film, “Moneyball”. You should try it!!!
A Tale of Two Cities
History Prof. Rolf Strom-Olsen meets at the Hay Festivals in Budapest and Segovia Georg von Habsburg and Lucy Kellaway.
Originally from Canada, history Professor Rolf Strom-Olsen is a man of more than one city. But if we stick to two here, it’s only because we must put numbers and limits to everything we do and say.
Rolf is conversant in various languages and has travelled extensively around the world. However,this is not what makes him a citizen of the world. Rather, it’s that, when speaking with him, one senses that he utterly and wholeheartedly believes in certain universal things; he would, I think, even draw the sword for them. Canadians are a bit like Spaniards in this sense, a bit of a crazy bunch.
In this video, he freely and humorously speaks at the Budapest and Segovia Hay Festivals with Georg von Habsburg and Lucy Kellaway. Georg is undoubtelly full of history and knowledge, but what he does best in this particular video is drive Rolf around Budapest. Lucy is quite simply full of life, wit, and anything you believe makes good company, just like that.
By the way, if you have never been to a Hay Festivals, just check when and where in the world the next one is taking place; because if you don’t go, you are missing something, and I mean it.
“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imagin-ings, a secret to the heart nearest it! “ (A tale of two cities by Charles Dickens).
Photo Professor Rolf Strom-Olsen in theotherphoto.blogs.ie.edu
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When I spoke with Prof. Marie José Garot back in June, I learned that she loves XIXth century French literature and in particular Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. Well, the next thing I knew, I was reading that book all summer at a pace of 3 hours per day till I found myself crying while reading the last page of Jean Valjean’s marvelous story. I just didn´t want it to finish.
I suppose I found a way for it to continue with the shooting of this video, in which Prof. Garot ponders the meaning of Justice and Law, and the European Union, while making reference to Victor Hugo, who was apparently among the first to think about The United States of Europe. Where else to film this video but in the incredible surrounding of Segovia´s former prison?
I leave with you a quote from Les Misérables and the good feeling I had shooting this video with Prof. Garot. Strangely enough I studied law myself, but for longer than I wished. If only I was a student again, I would love to have her as my Professor of Law.
“Have no fear of robbers and murderers. Such dangers are without, and are but petty. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. What matters what threatens our heads and our purses? Let us think of what threatens our souls.”
Going to the Top
Hungarians are the only ones capable of entering a revolving door last and coming out first, the great Billy Wilder once said. Well, it’s not that Hungarian Prof. Monika Hamori plays tricks on you in an attempt to come first, it’s just that it’s inevitable. Once you begin to talk with Prof. Hamori, she will be so full of knowledge and because of that, the only option is to let her go first, if you see what I mean.
When I first spoke with the pilot of the helicopter, I sensed that he was a bit skeptical about who this Professor was and what he business was being in and talking around in his helicopter. But, you guessed it, in the end, it turned out that he and Monika ended up getting along just fine. In fact, they ended up firing questions at each other to resolve issues facing CEOs. Have a look.
She teaches human resources but also has a master’s in Hungarian literature and linguistics. “Few academics combine Hamori’s appetite for “proper” research with such interesting, behaviour-changing conclusions, says Thinker50. And she is among the world’s 40 best business school professors under the age of 40, adds Poets & Quants.
