Monday, June 4, 2007

Day 8: Part 1

Day 8. June 2, 2007

We served breakfast at 7:00 AM today. Accelerator team members are a bit tired (yesterday was a big day). Today will be a mixture of class and fun, which will help.

At 8:00 AM, we proceeded to Owen classroom 222 for a session on Business Ethics with Dr. Bart Victor. The conversation was lively. In his usual engaging style, the Dr. Victor led the teams in thinking about the driver of company ethical performance – our own personal ethics.

After a quick break, David Franklin from Philips Medical spoke to the Accelerator teams about his experiences both at GE and Philips Medical in building business relationships and managing a sales process. He spoke to the opportunity costs of failed relationships. Lots of Q&A with the Accelerator teams.