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Welcome to the Cornell Entrepreneur Network!
CEN is the university's multi-city business networking program. With ~100 events per year, CEN offers alumni the opportunity to learn from world-class speakers and meet fellow Cornellians with similar business motivations.
CEN Web Seminars: Developing Future Leaders: What School Hasn’t Taught Us, featuring Christine Duvivier MBA ‘82
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Leading-edge companies all over the world are facing a talent crisis. The expected shortage of highly-skilled individuals and leaders is a major concern for businesses as they fear its effect on the bottom line.
How do we solve this talent problem? Often companies search for the top students at elite schools, but speaker Christine Duvivier argues that these companies need to broaden their reach to achieve their goals. Christine has conducted ground-breaking research on teens in the bottom 80% of their classes and has shown that their gifts make them suited for critical roles in our future economy.
During this web seminar, Christine will use specific case examples from current and future leaders to show how gifts found in the bottom of the class enable these individuals to successfully contribute to society.
During this web seminar Christine will:
This is an online event. To participate in the web seminar you will need internet and a phone. Log-in and dial-in information will be sent a day before the event. If you have any questions, contact Allison Shirley at acs275@cornell.edu or 607-254-7176.
Cost: $20 per person; if you are not completely satisfied with the presentation, you will be fully refunded.
About CEN Web Seminars: As our CEN programs continue to grow in popularity, we are taking the best of CEN online. CEN is producing a series of web seminars focused on current topics that provide attendees with the tools they need to grow their business. The web seminars continue to feature the top speakers in their field. The goal is for the web seminars to be as interactive as possible. Throughout the presentation, the audience can ask the speaker questions and there will be an official Q&A session at the end of the presentation. Some presentations will also include instant audience polling. As with all CEN programs, attendees are able to post Open Mike Comments online before the event. To get a flavor for the types of web seminars CEN is sponsoring, visit the CEN website.
CEN Northern California presents Ashu Agrawal BS '99, MEng '99, Principal, Francisco Partners
Continuing with our very successful luncheon format this time we’ll take a look at Private Equity. Francisco Partners is a middle-market private equity firm focused exclusively on investments in technology and technology-enabled businesses. Ashu will give an overview of the technology private equity landscape and Francisco Partners. As usual there will be plenty of time for Q/A.
Ashu is a Principal with Francisco Partners, and serves on the board of directors of FrontRange Solutions, Mincom and WatchGuard and previously served on the board of CBA Group and Primavera. Prior to joining Francisco Partners, he worked in the Leveraged Finance group at Goldman, Sachs & Co. where he was involved in the structuring and execution of leveraged loan, high-yield bond, bridge loan, and mezzanine financing transactions for companies in a variety of industries including telecommunications and information technology. He holds and an MBA from Harvard Business School as well as an M.Eng and a BS from Cornell University.
Friday November 6th, 2009
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
11:45AM - 12:15PM - Early arrival networking, doors open at 11:45AM
12:15PM - 12:30PM - Introduction of attendees
12:30PM - 1:30PM - Presentation and discussion
1:30PM - Hard cut-off of presentation and discussion
Stay to network until 2:00PM if you like!
Cost: $20 per person includes gourmet box lunch.
Location: The location near the 600 Block of California Street in San Francisco will be emailed to registered attendees a few days before the event.
CEN Northern California and The Johnson School Club of the Bay Area presents Sales 2.0: Bridging the Sales and Marketing Chasm Through Shared Metrics featuring Pelin Wood Thorogood '90, MEng '91, MBA '94, Managing Partner, Aegean Group
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Selling is shifting from a freewheeling organization to a culture of accountability. Sales managers no longer need to act on hunches, but can plan and manage by metrics, and hold their salespeople’s feet to the fire. Success metrics, jointly defined by sales marketing, are critical to this new movement in sales, called Sales 2.0, bringing much needed predictability into the sales cycle. At this event we’ll explore the Web 2.0 enabled technologies and best practices that are essential in establishing a culture of measurement across sales and marketing organizations to increase accountability for all stakeholders, streamline lead flow throughout the sales funnel, and ultimately accelerate sales cycles. We’ll cover;
This is a great event for senior executives, directors, and managers as well as anyone who is in sales or marketing or wants to be, manages sales and marketing people, manages revenue, or wants to understand more about the best practices in achieving sales and marketing alignment.
Throughout her career, Pelin Wood Thorogood ’90, MEngr ’91, MBA ‘94 Managing Partner, Aegean Group has been in the forefront of emerging technologies and trends. During her more than 15 years as a high technology marketing executive, Pelin has led the go-to-market strategy for WebSideStory’s on-demand digital marketing suite, extended Peregrine Systems’ enterprise software business into the web-based employee self service (ESS) category, and in the mid 90s, launched one the very first mobile B2B applications designed for the Windows CE platform. Pelin is currently a Managing Partner of Aegean Group, a strategic consultancy with a focus on marketing optimization, social networking, and web analytics and sits of various boards. Most recently, Pelin was the Senior Vice President of Marketing for WebSideStory (acquired by Omniture), a leading provider of multi-channel analytics and digital marketing optimization solutions.
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
11:45AM - 12:15PM - Early arrival networking, doors open at 11:45AM
12:15PM - 12:30PM - Introduction of attendees
12:30PM - 1:30PM - Presentation and discussion
1:30PM - Hard cut-off of presentation and discussion
Stay to network until 2:00PM if you like!
Cost: $20 per person includes gourmet box lunch.
Location: Registered guests will be provided an address near Palo Alto
**Due to Andrew's exciting book tour schedule a conflict has risen with this event and it has been temporarily postponed. Stay tuned for the rescheduled date!**
Cornell Wall Street (CWS) Presents: Andrew Ross Sorkin '99
On November 16, 2009, Sorkin, an acclaimed New York Times reporter and senior editor of NYTimes.com's DealBook, will present his newly launched book to his fellow Cornellians.
CWS is thrilled to present:
Too Big To Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves
The book is a real-life thriller about the most tumultuous period in America's financial history.
Monday, November 16, 2009
6:15 p.m. Doors open
6:30 p.m. Networking reception
7:30 p.m. Presentation/Q&A
8:30 p.m. Open mic & networking continues
9:00 p.m. Event concludes
Cost: $65* includes a copy of Too Big To Fail, reception, networking, and presentation
*In keeping with Cornell's spirit of accessibility for all, we've reserved a limited number of spots for students and unemployed alumni who are having financial difficulties. Please contact john.zelenka@cornell.edu for more information.
Location: The Cornell Club of New York: ~ 6 East 44th Street ~ 212-986-0300
Public Transportation: The Cornell Club of New York is 2 blocks from Grand Central Station. Grand Central is easily accessible via Metro North Railroad, and subway lines 4, 5, 6, 7, and S. Once you arrive at Grand Central, exit on the Vanderbilt Avenue side and walk up E. 44th for 2 blocks. The club will be on your left.
Parking: Central parking is at 100 W 44th Street, 6th and Broadway, for $22.00 with Cornell Club validation. Valet parking is available for $40 for up to 24 hours.
More Information about Too Big To Fail
Excerpt
"We just hit the iceberg," Jaime Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, warned his men over dinner just 24 hours before Lehman Brothers would file for bankruptcy, Merrill Lynch would sell itself to Bank of America, and the insurance giant AIG would teeter-all within one afternoon. "The boat is filling and the music is still playing. There's not enough lifeboats. Someone is going to die," he said with a wry smile. "So you might as well enjoy the champagne and caviar."
About the Author
Andrew Ross Sorkin is the award-winning chief mergers and acquisitions reporter, a columnist and assistant editor of business and finance news at The New York Times. He is also the editor and founder of DealBook, an online daily financial report. Sorkin has appeared on Today, Good Morning America, The Charlie Rose Show, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and Talk of the Nation and is a frequent guest host of Squawk Box. Sorkin has won a Gerald Loeb Award, the highest honor in business journalism, and a Society of American Business Editors and Writers Award. In 2007, the World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader. In 2008, Vanity Fair named Sorkin to its "Next Establishment" list. Sorkin is a 1999 communications graduate from Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Press for Too Big To Fail
Sorry, this event has been sold out.
The 5 Mentors You Need to Succeed - And How to Find Them, Featuring Jodi R. R. Smith MILR '95, President, Mannersmith Etiquette Consulting
This is an online event. To participate in the web seminar you will need internet and a phone. Log-in and dial-in information will be sent a day before the event. If you have any questions, contact Allison Shirley at acs275@cornell.edu or 607-254-7176.
Cost: $20 per person; if you are not completely satisfied with the presentation, you will be fully refunded.
About CEN Web Seminars: As our CEN programs continue to grow in popularity, we are taking the best of CEN online. CEN is producing a series of web seminars focused on current topics that provide attendees with the tools they need to grow their business. The web seminars continue to feature the top speakers in their field. The goal is for the web seminars to be as interactive as possible. Throughout the presentation, the audience can ask the speaker questions and there will be an official Q&A session at the end of the presentation. Some presentations will also include instant audience polling. As with all CEN programs, attendees are able to post Open Mike Comments online before the event. To get a flavor for the types of web seminars CEN is sponsoring, visit the CEN website.
CEN Northern California presents Entrepreneurship and the Role of the Venture Capitalists featuring Tom McKinley, General Partner, Cardinal Partners.
Which came first, the entrepreneur or the venture capitalist? And so it goes in the world of technology. At this event we’ll give you a crash course on what’s going on in the mind of your local venture capitalist.
You’re the target audience for this event if you are forming a team seeking capital, are working in the ranks but hope to join a high velocity start-up someday, or simply want to understand more about venture capital for any reason. A grasp of venture capital is smart idea for all alumni associated with tech.
Cost: $20 per person includes gourmet box lunch. THIS EVENT WILL SELL OUT. PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.
Location: Hosted by Pamela S. Kaufmann '80 Partner, Hanson Bridgett LLP, 425 Market Street, San Francisco, CA. YOU WILL NOT BE ADMITTED TO THIS EVENT WITHOUT PRE-REGISTRATION.
CEN Web Seminars: Follow Your Bliss: Knowing Your Talents and Playing to Them, featuring the Director of the Roy H. Park Leadership Fellows Program at the Johnson School Clint Sidle.
One of the key strategies to long term professional effectiveness and job satisfaction is to craft the work that you do to your talents until you find work that you love. Taken from his recent book, This Hungry Spirit: Your Need for Basic Goodness, Clint Sidle shows if you play to your strengths and serve your deeper aspirations you will not only increase your chances of success but also find work that you love. As Confucius said, “Find work that you love and you will never work another day in your life.”
During this web seminar, Clint will show you how to:
This is an online event. To participate in the web seminar you will need internet and a phone. Log-in and dial-in information will be sent a day before the event. If you have any questions, contact Allison Shirley at acs275@cornell.edu or 607-254-7176.
Cost: $20 per person; if you are not completely satisfied with the presentation, you will be fully refunded.
About CEN Web Seminars: As our CEN programs continue to grow in popularity, we are taking the best of CEN online. CEN is producing a series of web seminars focused on current topics that provide attendees with the tools they need to grow their business. The web seminars continue to feature the top speakers in their field. The goal is for the web seminars to be as interactive as possible. Throughout the presentation, the audience can ask the speaker questions and there will be an official Q&A session at the end of the presentation. Some presentations will also include instant audience polling. As with all CEN programs, attendees are able to post Open Mike Comments online before the event. To get a flavor for the types of web seminars CEN is sponsoring, visit the CEN website.
Cost: ADVANCE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. This event will sell out. $35 includes hors' de oeuvres, presentation and networking.
