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Boston College: Chief Executive's Club of Boston
Peter Voser, Chief Executive Officer of Royal Dutch Shell PLC, which is currently ranked #1 on the Fortune Global 500. Mr. Voser discusses our energy system and offers insightful ideas on how to transform it to meet our rising energy needs. He estimates that by 2030, we should expect demand for critical resources like water, energy and food to have risen by 40%-50%. To meet those needs without significant environmental detriment, energy companies need to work together and play an active role in transforming the energy system.
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Boston College: Chief Executive's Club of Boston
David M. Cote, Chairman & CEO of Honeywell International, a Fortune 100 company that invents and manufactures solutions to address some of the world's toughest challenges. Mr. Cote discusses the troubling U.S. debt and creative ways to address this issue, including entitlement reform and tax reform.
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Boston College: Chief Executive's Club of Boston
Dan Amos is Chairman and CEO of Aflac, the largest provider of supplemental insurance in the US and the largest overall insurance provider in Japan. Mr. Amos explains how in just a few years a duck transformed a sleepy company into one of the world's most recognized and admired brands.
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Boston College: Chief Executive's Club of Boston
John Stratton, President, Verizon Enterprise Solutions. Verizon Communications is a Dow 30 company with nearly $116 billion in 2012 revenues. Mr. Stratton described ways in which Verizon is responding to the “incredible pace of technology,” and how the company is using its investments in broadband and mobile technologies to transform huge sectors of the economy. Verizon is pursuing new ways of solving some of society's most compelling issues such as health care.
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Boston College: Chief Executive's Club of Boston
Marijn Dekkers, Chairman, Bayer AG. Mr. Dekkers speaks about the challenges of cutting health care costs while continuing to invest in innovation.
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Boston College: Chief Executive's Club of Boston
Larry Merlo, CEO of pharmacy giant CVS Caremark. Mr. Merlo trumpets CVS's in-store clinics as one possible solution to a an increasingly stressed US healthcare system.
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Boston College: Chief Executive's Club of Boston
This week's speaker is Ed Clark, CEO of TD Bank Group, one of the largest banks in North America. Mr. Clark spoke of embracing new banking reforms which would mean that the government would never again be in a position of bailing out a failing bank.
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Boston College: Chief Executive's Club of Boston
Christopher Viehbacher, Chief Executive Officer of Sanofi-Aventis, the fourth largest seller of prescription drugs in the world. Mr. Viehbacher talks about the critical need for "disruptive" innovation in the health care industry.
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Boston College: Chief Executive's Club of Boston
Gary Loveman is the CEO of the world's largest casino company, Caesar's Entertainment. Mr. Loveman offers a rousing defense of the fast growing worldwide gaming industry and, drawing on his Ph. D. in Economics from MIT, describes how the application of science and analytics to the gambling business has helped casinos flourish.
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Boston College: Chief Executive's Club of Boston
Gerald Hassell, Chairman and CEO of BNY Mellon, the world's largest deposit bank, with some $26 trillion in assets under custody and administration. Mr. Hassell gives a compelling and sobering description of the "new reality" of global financial markets.
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Boston College: Chief Executive's Club of Boston
Charles E. "Ed" Haldeman Jr., chief executive of the taxpayer-backed mortgage giant, Freddie Mac. Mr. Haldeman speaks about the Obama administration's new effort to help millions of troubled homeowners re-finance their loans.
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Boston College: Chief Executive's Club of Boston
David Barger, President and CEO of Jetblue Airways. Mr. Barger speaks about Jetblue's strategic focus on providing superior customer service and plans to expand throughout the U.S., despite the challenges presented by the rising cost of fuel.
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Boston College: Chief Executive's Club of Boston
Randall Stephenson, CEO of AT&T defended AT&T's proposed $39 Billion acquisition of rival T-Mobile. Mr. Stephenson said the combination would help fast-track the deployment of a new technology which will dramatically improve cellphone download speeds.
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Boston College: Chief Executive's Club of Boston
Indra Nooyi, Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo, is one of the country's most admired business leaders, responsible for Pepsi's 19 separate billion dollar plus brands. Ms. Nooyi speaks about the importance of talent management and of her own folksy tricks for bonding key executives to the Pepsi mission.
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Boston College: Chief Executive's Club of Boston
Les Hinton, the CEO of the Dow Jones Company, owner of the Wall Street Journal. Mr. Hinton speaks about the rapid migration of journalism to mobile devices, and the challenge of getting readers to pay for it.
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Boston College: Chief Executive's Club of Boston
Ellen Kullman, Chairman and CEO of Dupont, one of the world's oldest and largest chemical companies. Ms. Kullman addresses Dupont's role in increasing global farming productivity to feed the world's growing population.
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Boston College: Chief Executive's Club of Boston
Severin Schway, CEO of the Roche Group - one of the world's leading healthcare companies. Mr. Schway addresses the dramatic advances in molecular biology and genetics that are paving the way for "personalized healthcare."
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Boston College: Chief Executive's Club of Boston
Brian Moynihan, CEO of Bank of America, the largest bank holding company in America. Mr. Moynihan addressed the bank's recent decision to suspend foreclosure sales and what he described as a long, slow economic recovery for the nation.
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Boston College: Chief Executive's Club of Boston
Philip Kent, Chairman and CEO of Turner Broadcasting System, one of the world's leading cable television networks featuring such well-known program brands as CNN, HLN, TNT, TBS, Cartoon Network, and Turner Classic Movies. Mr. Kent speaks candidly of the challenge of producing responsible programming in the face of extraordinary competition for the television viewer's attention.
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Boston College: Chief Executive's Club of Boston
John Chambers, the CEO of Cisco Systems, one of the world's great technology companies, which during the dot come boom was the most valuable company in the world. Chambers spoke about the company's recent significant expansion in Massachusetts as well as the the company's unique decentralized management structure which helps put new initiatives on the fast track.
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