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RE: OT- Rice's Doerr Institute for New Leaders
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RE: OT- Rice's Doerr Institute for New Leaders
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RE: OT- Rice's Doerr Institute for New Leaders
Your kidding. Al Gore? (08-31-2016 09:35 PM)dragon2owl Wrote: Quote:Former Vice President Al Gore, Former Secretary of State Colin Powell and business consultant Jim Collins will be part of the board of the Doerr Institute. General Kolditz says the Doerr Institute will be announcing its board next week with these three members confirmed.
https://doerrinstitute.rice.edu/
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RE: OT- Rice's Doerr Institute for New Leaders
(04-24-2019 12:34 PM)OldOwl Wrote: Your kidding. Al Gore? (08-31-2016 09:35 PM)dragon2owl Wrote: Quote:Former Vice President Al Gore, Former Secretary of State Colin Powell and business consultant Jim Collins will be part of the board of the Doerr Institute. General Kolditz says the Doerr Institute will be announcing its board next week with these three members confirmed.
https://doerrinstitute.rice.edu/
Whose kidding?
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RE: OT- Rice's Doerr Institute for New Leaders
(04-24-2019 06:15 AM)owlsfan Wrote: (04-23-2019 10:05 PM)owl40 Wrote: Less than flattering piece on Doerr/Leadership at Kleiner.
http://fortune.com/longform/kleiner-perkins-vc-fall/
Second guessing VC's firms choices on early stage investing choices seems like low-hanging fruit.
On the surface, Kleiner gets a ton of historical credit and 'brand' from being early investors in companies from 25-years ago like Google and Amazon. However below the surface and analyzing the past 20-years, I took the piece not to be so much picking apart early stage investment choices at Kleiner but rather how poor/dysfunctional the leadership of the Kleiner firm while Doerr was at the helm. Lots of missteps on succession, firm strategy, roles/responsibilities, governance, and overall controversy (e.g., PR blunder from Pao case). Not the stuff that one would want to associate with an "Institute of New Leaders" at Rice
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RE: OT- Rice's Doerr Institute for New Leaders
The whole Institute is absurd. But, hey, if the only way Doerr would give money is via his own institute, I'm not gonna say no.
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RE: OT- Rice's Doerr Institute for New Leaders
(04-24-2019 12:34 PM)OldOwl Wrote: Your kidding. Al Gore? (08-31-2016 09:35 PM)dragon2owl Wrote: Quote:Former Vice President Al Gore, Former Secretary of State Colin Powell and business consultant Jim Collins will be part of the board of the Doerr Institute. General Kolditz says the Doerr Institute will be announcing its board next week with these three members confirmed.
https://doerrinstitute.rice.edu/
Remember, Gore did invent the internet!
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RE: OT- Rice's Doerr Institute for New Leaders
(04-24-2019 02:20 PM)HawaiiOwl Wrote: (04-24-2019 12:34 PM)OldOwl Wrote: Your kidding. Al Gore? (08-31-2016 09:35 PM)dragon2owl Wrote: Quote:Former Vice President Al Gore, Former Secretary of State Colin Powell and business consultant Jim Collins will be part of the board of the Doerr Institute. General Kolditz says the Doerr Institute will be announcing its board next week with these three members confirmed.
https://doerrinstitute.rice.edu/
Remember, Gore did invent the internet!
And, George Shultz did Theranos. (mentally adding this to the list of corrupting influence of money and politics, including MLM schemes - many current and ex-presidents shilled for Amway and other pyramid schemes, tobacco lawsuits, potentially think-tank boards and even academic postings).
Let's have a collective non-partisan face-palm moment here...
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RE: OT- Rice's Doerr Institute for New Leaders
(04-24-2019 03:54 PM)I45owl Wrote: (04-24-2019 02:20 PM)HawaiiOwl Wrote: (04-24-2019 12:34 PM)OldOwl Wrote: Your kidding. Al Gore? (08-31-2016 09:35 PM)dragon2owl Wrote: Quote:Former Vice President Al Gore, Former Secretary of State Colin Powell and business consultant Jim Collins will be part of the board of the Doerr Institute. General Kolditz says the Doerr Institute will be announcing its board next week with these three members confirmed.
https://doerrinstitute.rice.edu/
Remember, Gore did invent the internet!
And, George Shultz did Theranos. (mentally adding this to the list of corrupting influence of money and politics, including MLM schemes - many current and ex-presidents shilled for Amway and other pyramid schemes, tobacco lawsuits, potentially think-tank boards and even academic postings).
Let's have a collective non-partisan face-palm moment here...
Schultz gets a lot of the attention from his position on that board, because it was his nephew that was a whistle-blower and was a large part of the story, which makes for great drama. On that board too, lest we forget, was William Perry (Clinton's sec. of defense); Henry Kissinger (god of all foreign affairs in DC); Sam Nunn and Bill Frist (former senators); James "Mad Dog" Mattis; Riley Bechtel; and Kovacevich (former CEO of Wells Fargo). That may have been the most decorated board in America.
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RE: OT- Rice's Doerr Institute for New Leaders
(04-24-2019 04:24 PM)owlsfan Wrote: And, George Shultz did Theranos. ...
Schultz gets a lot of the attention from his position on that board, because it was his nephew that was a whistle-blower and was a large part of the story, which makes for great drama. On that board too, lest we forget, was William Perry (Clinton's sec. of defense); Henry Kissinger (god of all foreign affairs in DC); Sam Nunn and Bill Frist (former senators); James "Mad Dog" Mattis; Riley Bechtel; and Kovacevich (former CEO of Wells Fargo). That may have been the most decorated board in America.
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... and supremely lacking in biology/biotech experience (notwithstanding Frist's MD and pre-politics experience as a heart & lung transplant surgeon).
(This post was last modified: 04-24-2019 04:56 PM by Almadenmike.)
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RE: OT- Rice's Doerr Institute for New Leaders
(04-24-2019 04:24 PM)owlsfan Wrote: (04-24-2019 03:54 PM)I45owl Wrote: (04-24-2019 02:20 PM)HawaiiOwl Wrote: (04-24-2019 12:34 PM)OldOwl Wrote: Your kidding. Al Gore? (08-31-2016 09:35 PM)dragon2owl Wrote: https://doerrinstitute.rice.edu/
Remember, Gore did invent the internet!
And, George Shultz did Theranos. (mentally adding this to the list of corrupting influence of money and politics, including MLM schemes - many current and ex-presidents shilled for Amway and other pyramid schemes, tobacco lawsuits, potentially think-tank boards and even academic postings).
Let's have a collective non-partisan face-palm moment here...
Schultz gets a lot of the attention from his position on that board, because it was his nephew that was a whistle-blower and was a large part of the story, which makes for great drama. On that board too, lest we forget, was William Perry (Clinton's sec. of defense); Henry Kissinger (god of all foreign affairs in DC); Sam Nunn and Bill Frist (former senators); James "Mad Dog" Mattis; Riley Bechtel; and Kovacevich (former CEO of Wells Fargo). That may have been the most decorated board in America.
That's all correct. Shultz stands out for trying to reassure his grandson that it was all legitimate, but I'd forgotten about the others.
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