
Jeffrey Garten
Professor at the Yale School of Management & Former Undersecretary of Commerce
Jeffrey E. Garten's vast credentials, reputation and experience make him one of very few business experts placed firmly on the crossroads of economics and foreign policy. An expert in finance and international trade, Garten spent thirteen years on Wall Street as a managing director of Lehman Brothers and the Blackstone Group. During this time, he specialized in debt restructuring in Latin America, and restructured some of the world's largest shipping companies in Hong Kong. At the podium, Garten draws on his extensive government service and corporate experience to analyze the political and financial implications of a globalized economy.
Jeffrey E. Garten's vast credentials, reputation and experience make him one of very few business experts placed firmly on the crossroads of economics and foreign policy. And as he notes with great eloquence in his best-sellers, The Big Ten: Emerging Markets and How They Will Change Our Lives, and The Mind of the CEO, that is the crossroads where businesses will thrive or perish in the 21st Century.
Garten is the Juan Trippe Professor in the Practice of International Trade, Finance, and Business and former Dean of the Yale School of Management. He is also Chairman of Garten Rothkopf, a global consulting firm that provides strategic advice to companies around the world. Garten brings a wide range of top-level experience in the private and public sectors, and a global perspective to Yale's School of Management.
Prior to being named Dean in November of 1995, he served as U.S. undersecretary of commerce for international trade in the Clinton administration. In this capacity, he revitalized the government's efforts to help U.S. companies gain access to foreign markets. Garten worked to focus the nation's trade policy on emerging markets such as China, India, and Brazil; and played a central role in trade negotiations with Japan and in the expanded commercial ties with the European Union. Early in his career, Garten served on the White House Council on International Policy in the Nixon administration, and on the State Department Policy Planning Staff of Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Cyrus Vance.
An expert in finance and international trade, Garten spent thirteen years on Wall Street as a managing director of Lehman Brothers and the Blackstone Group. During this time, he specialized in debt restructuring in Latin America, and restructured some of the world's largest shipping companies in Hong Kong.
A contributor to many leading publications, Garten was a monthly columnist for Business Week from 1997 to 2005 who focused on the major challenges facing global business leaders. At the podium, Garten draws on his extensive government service and corporate and financial experience to analyze the political and financial implications of a globalized economy.
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The Politics of Fortune: A New Agenda for Business Leaders
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The Changing Relationship Between Business and Foreign Policys
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A Cold Peace: America, Japan, Germany and the Struggle For Supremacy
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The Big Ten: Big Emerging Markets and How They Will Change
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World View: Global Strategies for the New Economy
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The Mind of the CEO: Insights into Leadership and Management
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November 2002The Politics of Fortune: A New Agenda For Business Leaders
The Politics of Fortune contains critical insights for anyone who wants to understand better the context for the enormous changes sweeping over our country and our world, and the role that private enterprise must play in building a more secure and more prosperous future.
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December 2001The Mind of the C.E.O.
Based on extensive and highly personal interviews with forty chief executives around the world-among them GE's Jack Welch, AOL's Steven Case, Intel's Andy Grove, Newscorp's Rupert Murdoch, BP Amoco's John Browne, Nokia's Jorma Olilla, and Toyota's Hiroshi Okuda-The Mind of the CEO takes us on a journey into the innermost thoughts of today's corporate titans and paints a compelling picture of the strategic and daily challenges facing them.
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January 2000World View: Global Strategies for the New Economy
Operating in a global market requires CEOs to rethink every aspect of their strategies. The best strategies require that organizations gather massive amounts of information and process it effectively. Companies that succeed on a global scale are constant innovators, learning and implementing simultaneously. Great global companies create cultures conducive to extensive internal and external collaboration and networking. Radical change brings unprecedented opportunity to capture markets and enhance shareholder value. Seeing globalization through the eyes of leading thinkers and executives who have mastered its challenges, World View presents forward-thinking insights for corporate leaders determined to succeed in the always-new and uncertain global economy.
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