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Better Life LabAmerican Karoshi — the Problem with Work StressIn Japan, generations of workers have given their all to the code of Karoshi. It’s a word that literally means, “Work til you die." Few Americans know the word “Karoshi.” We don’t think it happens here. But the workplace now actually ranks as the fifth leading cause of death in America. To help us understand work stress better, we’re joined by the co-directors of the Healthy Work Campaign. Marnie Dobson and Peter Schnall. How do we shift from work being something that can make your life miserable, to something that can enhance the quality of...2022-03-2937 min
Think Fast Talk Smart: Communication Techniques47. Quick Thinks: How to Use Storytelling to Be a Better Founder“Great founders are great storytellers,” says Stanford Graduate School of Business professor Stephanos Zenios in this “Quick Thinks” episode. Zenios is the director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and heads Startup Garage, a project-based course where teams design and test business concepts that address real-world problems. “Founders have to tell a story to their customer so that they can inspire them to test and use their new product. They have to tell a story to their employees to inspire them to take some risk. And then, they have to tell a story to investors and their board.” Connect...2021-12-1408 min
Think Fast Talk Smart: Communication Techniques41. Speak like a Founder: How Successful Entrepreneurs Communicate to Their Teams“Part of teamwork is dating,” says Stefanos Zenios, The Investment Group of Santa Barbara Professor of Entrepreneurship and Professor of Operations, Information & Technology. “Dating each other to see whether you can work well together. It’s about developing how you will speak with each other in the team, how you will manage difficult conversations, and how to be respectful, but also how to help each other grow.” In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, host Matt Abrahams sits down with Professor Zenios to hear more about the methods shared in the Stanford GSB project-based course Startup Garage. 2021-10-0118 min
The Strong StartupBringing Distruptive Tech to Surgery with Adrian Kilian (#14)Adrian Kilian is the co-founder and CEO of Mango Medical, a MedTech startup from Germany bringing Patient-specific implants to the operating room for surgeons.
In this podcast, Adrian talks about Mango Medicals' journey so far in the MedTech world diving into the different programs they joined, difficulties they've faced along the way.
Most importantly, Adrian addresses the age-old question of "when should you go all-in with your startup?" by sharing his own experience with making this decision with mango Medical.
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INFORMS Today: The Podcast SeriesHelping patients decideA physician may not have more than 15 minutes to discuss your most pressing health issues. So what do you do when you get home and need to make serious choices? Stanford University Professor Stefanos Zenios, the new Editor-in-Chief of the INFORMS journal Operations Research, took a leave of absence to develop a website devoted to patients with kidney disease and other ailments. Listen to him and Dr. Constantia Petrou as they discuss www.konnectology.com, the decision-making website they created for patients with funding from the National Institutes of Health.2012-01-2000 min
Inside Social InnovationCapital for Early Stage InnovationMedical innovation continues to flourish, however entrepreneurs are faced with many challenges, including tougher regulatory demands which make it more difficult to get products to market. This panel discussion includes representatives from various investment firms who give a clearer picture of the funding landscape, advising early stage innovators with creative ways to navigate these complexities. From the 2011 Global Health Series organized by the Stanford Global Health Center in partnership with the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stefanos Zenios, the Charles A. Holloway Professor and director of the Stanford GSB’s Program in Healthcare Innovation leads this panel which convenes An...2011-10-141h 10