Panel 8 Guest Speakers
Key to Success after Overcoming Failure
Panel 8
Guest speakers
Richard Eisner, CPA
Richard Eisner, CPA, is a founding partner and member of the Executive Committee of Eisner. He uses his executive skills as well as more than 45 years of diversified accounting experience in administration at Eisner. Dick is currently on the boards of the Columbia School of Public Health and the Legal Aid Society.
Joseph Haddock, CFA
Manager at Bloomberg
Product Manager for Global Corporate Actions within the Equity Data department. His responsibilities center around managing 9 teams:
Equity Indices – data for the S&P500 index and other similar indices
Corporate Actions – recording dividends, splits, listings/delistings, etc
M&A – post and follow global deals, write commentary the biggest
Earnings – follow earnings releases and get the information up in minutes
Guidance – record company management’s expectations
Events – track meetings & releases, post transcripts/audio where applicable
Equity Issuance – IPO & secondary offering coverage
Dividend forecasting – proprietary forecasts of future dividends
Programing Support – internal team to help manage software developments & roll outs
Joseph Haddock has been with Bloomberg in various roles for 12 years
Mark Kaplan
RAPP representative, Sr. Digital Strategist
Mark Kaplan is a Senior Digital Strategist at RAPP. He’s been at RAPP for over 2 years, and is currently dedicated to the Merck account, the agency’s largest. Prior to RAPP, he was an Information Architect at the digital agency Razorfish, and before that a Business Analyst at MetLife. In his free time, Mark is learning guitar and enjoys longboarding around Central Park.
Michael, Hickey
Manager at Starbucks
Although originally interested in Computer Science, Micheal Hickey graduated from the University of Central Florida with Business Management degree. He worked two jobs throughout college to support himself. Upon graduation he joined Starbucks as an assistand manager. After one year, he was promoted to manager for a level 2 (smaller volume) store. A couple years later, he was promoted to manager for level 1 (large volume) store. Michael was then assigned as project manager for store development, which included traveling throughout the U.S. training employees and managing several new Starbucks stores. In 2008, Mike was assigned to one of Starbucks Flagship stores located in Times Square at 42nd street & 8th Ave. He not only manages one of the busiest Starbucks cafes in the world, but he is also responsable for providing catering for corporate occasions in the area as well training other managers.
20 responses so far
It is impressive the amount of responsibility each of these speakers must bear in mind every day. From being a manager in Bloomberg, who is responsible for post and follow global deals, forecast the future dividents, to a Starbucks manager, who shares pretty much similar responsibilities but at a slightly lower scale. It’s incredible how committed they are to their work; their work at one point becomes their life.
One thing that I carried away from this presentation was the need for passion. I personally believe that passion is necessary in everything that you do especially one’s job because without passion one’s job becomes tedious and boring. You are more likely to stick with a job if you are passionate about it. In order to overcome one’s failure they must be passionate about that idea, which will ensure that they keep with it. However as Mark stated you must also do a cost benefit analysis to see that it is worth staying with your current venture or if some tweaking is needed. As the last group to go I believe that they did a great job at encapsulating a lot of the terms that we learned this semester. Doug’s M.C role was also a great bonus because it help keep the panel interesting and on task.
Well done group 8. I enjoyed the speakers you had because your speakers explained each question and provided past experiences which I and some people can definitely relate to. 2 Most important points i picked up from your presentation today is ‘dont get too comfortable’. Also the 2 p’s, passion and patience – Definitely 2 things i can apply to my life and career.
Your topic was well thought out and interesting. It addressed one of the main points that had been emphasized throughout the semester. It was a wonderful final panel. I liked the fact that you guys had experienced panelists, especially Richard Eisner. It was also interestering that being patient was one of the advices given to the classing seeming as how living in this day and age, especially in NYC, that everything moves at lightning speeds and you have to be on your toes and where waiting on something can cost you. Overall great job.
I enjoyed panel 8’s presentation. The topic was very unique and informative. I can completely relate to this topic, being that I have worked in a few businesses that were starting to fail. The best advice that I took from this panel was “dont get too comfortable”. There is no such thing as a “sure thing” and many people often try to plan everything, but we have to learn that somethings are unpredictable. Great job and great speakers.
Panel 8’s presentation was spectacular. The topic alone was interesting to me because we as students have to deal with the possibility of failure on the regular. But having people take about how to be successful after you and having personal examples to share I thought was exceptional. I felt more interaction between the panel and the group members would have been more beneficial all in all I thought is was enjoyable.
One thing I have to say is Ricky Cohen is one inspiration! I guess everyone does fail in whatever they do whether its during a job, or your business failing in general, but in the end everyone succeeds (if they take the risk I guess lol). Doug gave a great introduction and I loved his success after failure story with the football example. I definitely agree that you CANNOT get to comfortable with what you do because it can bite you back in the…. =) you know what I mean. I agree with the 2 p’s. You have to be patient and you must have a passion in what you are going to do. Patience is a virtue. You guys have great speakers and an amazing panel overall!
I thought that the topic you chose was interesting because all of us will have to face failure at some point in our careers. One thing i took away from this panel was the 2 P’s (Patience and Passion). These P’s are important because we can apply that in our everyday lives as well as starting our own careers. Also, I liked how you put the questions asked on the projection screen for everyone to see. It was an easy way to follow your presentation. Great panel memebers and well done!
Good job panel #8. It was definitely a topic that was interesting and needed to be talked about as well because we all know that in life failure is inevitable . I learned two main things from this panel: if an idea fails one time you don’t just throw it away, but you store it because an idea that was not good for a situation now may be good for a situation in the future.Also one should know yourself know your strengths and weaknesses
I found it interesting that Mark Kaplan said that he wasn’t passionate about what he does, but rather finds ways of bringing his own uniqueness into whatever he does, even if that means creatively marketing a pharmaceutical company. This stands in contrast to what many other professionals have said, since the common theme is to be passionate about what you do whereas Mark said, “if you follow your passion, you may never find it.” Interesting take on the topic.
I really liked this panel. Although I think it was less relevant to the topic of failure itself, it gave many other insights to the students on other topics that are relevant to workforce and management. At first, I thought Haddock didn’t want to be part of the panel because he was very unenthusiastic and slouchy, but towards the middle of the panel, he was the most insightful and interesting panelist from the panel. The responsibilities at his work and the solid advise from his experience was very helpful. He also spoke very well and didn’t forget to say something nice for the professor, which i thought little details like that help him move forward in the professional world.
I really enjoyed the presentation and I think that the group had a nicely organized and presented panel. The flow of the presentation was very smooth and natural. The panelists were people who were interesting to listen to, and I found their advice to be very useful. It was evident that they were all refreshingly honest and willing to provide us with any information that they could. It is a relief to see people who have been working in their respective fields for a long time, and are still very much excited about the work that they do. Great presentation!
This is Lam Yip #76.
I think team 8 did a nice panel on Monday. The panel guests overall were clearly explaning their points and they have smooth connections between each other and they share their past experiences. A person who made the opening statment, he did a good introduction to prepare the audiences know about the topic, such as he try to make a interesting opening by sharing his personal story. And I think the panel is organized and clear. Team 8’s power point showed the questons when he was asking each question to speakrs. Also, the topic is meaningful and useful. I got something in the monday morning. For example, an idea that was not good for a situation now may be it will be good for a situation in the future,”patience and passion” “you should never give up””you should learn from failure”.
I hope i can apply these helpful ideas to my real life.
This group had a strong and solid group of speakers who came across as credible for their experience and their positions (Joseph is highlighted). However, my CONSTRUCTIVE criticism would go to the host and his evident favoritism with “his manager”. I think it was bit distracting and not favorable for the rest of the speakers. The topic was interesting yet I believe they could have integrated more positive upsides of the panelists’ careers.
I liked this presentation because it was a little different. These panelists talk about how they failed and kept at it to achieve their goal, where as most of the other panelists talk about things to do to be successful. I don’t think anyone can ever prepare you for failure, but these panelists definitely put it in to perspective. It’s extremely comforting to hear from people who failed or were set back, because they didn’t take a risk or bosses thought they were wrong. It’s comforting because failing is a scary thought; no one ever wants to fail. These panelists taught me that if you have a goal to stick with it and perfect it, but don’t just give up on it because it didn’t work out they way I wanted the first time around.
Im always amazed how people with such responsibilities have the time to come and share their experiences. This panel definitely brought us a lot about what to expect in the outside world and how we can face failure.
This was a great panel with a wide array of speakers. From the manager of the Starbucks to the founding partner of Eisner, they all brought different experiences that meshed well with the topic of the panel. Mr. Eisner and Mr. Haddock both are very experienced gentlemen and i felt that they had a lot of advice to give, especially since both are in the Finance field which so many students from the class are interested in. Mr. Haddock was really inspiring since he is a CFA and according to him, not many people pass the three parts of the exam.
I really liked this panel a lot. The panelist really spoke well about there professions with a passion. They all loved there job which in my opinion was seen in the way they spoke. I really enjoyed Joseph Haddock his Job really was complex and interesting dealing with lots of information. I also liked what he said about the fit between a person’s personality and his work force as he liked working in groups where credit for a task wasn’t the focus. Finally I enjoyed Richard Eisner’s 1 liners.
Team 8 did a good job and I really enjoyed this panel. The panelists gave us many insightful opinions towards failure and all shared their own experience. Joseph Haddock talked about how he failed to carry out his didvidend prediction project. I think all of us will encounter some degree of failure in our future career path, so the topic of this panel is really helpful. What I learned from this panel is that failure is not a bad thing at all. Each failure we encounter increases our wisdom and brings us one step closer to success. The most important thing is that we need to figure out why we fail and what is our weakness so that next time we won’t make the same mistake. And just like the quote on our t-shirt says, I wish all of us will have giant public failure as soon as possible.
I thought this was a very interesting panel. I thought it reiterated some of the things we were told earlier in the semester by Rick Cohen and Jack Doueck. i thought the panel did a great job showing us that we shouldn’t be afraid of failure and that a failure is not the end, but really the beginning. I wonder why we don’t learn about overcoming failures in other business classes here. I think its very important and shouldn’t be overlooked.