M. Sanjayan and Harrison Ford (Conservation International) - Scaling Sustainability

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

Business, Life Lessons, Creativity, Startups, Strategy, Thought Leadership, Education, Stanford University, Leadership, Challenges, Journey, Culture, Etl, Innovation, Founders, Stanford, Entrepreneurship

4.5 • 740 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Actor Harrison Ford shares his longstanding commitment to preserving nature through Conservation International, joined by the organization’s CEO, M. Sanjayan. In conversation with Stanford Professor of the Practice Tina Seelig, the environmental leaders urge entrepreneurs and engineers to build disruptive innovations, while describing how strategic thinking is at the heart of the self-sustaining solutions they launch around the world.

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0:00.0	Stanford E-Corner presents the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader series.
0:04.0	Okay, our first guest is Dr. M. Sanjin, who's an environmental scientist,
0:11.0	specializing in the role of conservation and saving people in nature.
0:15.0	He serves as Conservation International's Chief Executive Officer.
0:19.0	Our other guest is Harrison Ford,
0:22.6	who serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of Conservation International.
0:26.6	He is strongly committed to environmental concerns
0:29.6	and is served on the Board of Conservation International
0:32.6	for decades.
0:34.6	Please join me in welcoming our special guests. So thank you so much for coming all the way to Stanford to talk to our students.
0:52.3	How many of you were familiar with Conservation International?
0:55.8	Raise your hand.
0:56.5	Okay, only a few.
0:57.8	Well, this is an incredible opportunity to educate everyone,
1:00.7	and I think we're going to have a really meaningful discussion.
1:03.7	Can you tell us a little bit about the organization, the mission, the vision,
1:07.4	why has this organization been around for so long?
1:10.2	Sanja, maybe, do you want to start? Why has organization been around for so long? Sanjan, maybe, do you want to start?
1:11.3	Why has it been around for so long?
1:12.6	Yeah.
1:13.6	Harrison, you want to start?
1:15.6	I wouldn't know where to finish.
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