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Stanford Certificate Program
Strategic Decision and Risk Management
Stanford Campus, June 2008
Course Previews
To assist in your selection, our faculty have given their permission for you to view a sample lecture from the following courses. To view the course preview, you will need Windows Media Player.
Decision Analysis Previews
Ron Howard (Academic Director)
Professor, Department of Management Science and Engineering and, by courtesy,
Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. Professor Howard directs teaching and research in the Decision Analysis Program and is the director of the Decisions and Ethics Center. He defined the profession of decision analysis in 1964, and his experience includes dozens of decision analysis projects across all fields. Professor Howard has been a consultant to many companies and was a founding director and chairman of SDG. In 1986, he received the Operations Research Society of America's Frank P. Ramsey Medal for "Distinguished Contributions in Decision Analysis." He received from the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) the first award for the Teaching of Operations Research/Management Science Practice. He is a Fellow of INFORMS and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Decision Analysis Preview Howard#1: (30 sec)
Decision Analysis Preview Howard#2: (38 sec)
Strategic Innovation Previews
William Burnett
Consulting Assistant Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University. Mr. Burnett has been teaching industrial design, innovation, and product development for over 20 years. He has a diverse and creative product background that spans from Hasbro toys to Apple laptops, including six award-winning PowerBook laptop computers. Mr. Burnett has served on the boards of directors of Advanced Digital Optics and ITG and is a board member and fellow with D2M Inc., a firm that specializes in organizational development and optimization of the R&D and engineering functions. Mr. Burnett holds eight utility patents, several design patents, and one ID Magazine award for the first true "slate" computer, the Convergent Technologies WorkSlate.
Robert Sutton
Professor of Management Science and Engineering in the Stanford Engineering School, where he is Co-Director of the Center for Work, Technology, and Organization, an active researcher and cofounder in the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, and a cofounder and active member of the new "d.school," a multi-disciplinary program that teaches and spreads "design thinking." Sutton is also an IDEO Fellow.
Strategic Innovation Preview Burnett: ( 21 sec)
