Who you are defines how you build.

This is the entrepreneurial thought leader series.

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Welcome YouTube and Stanford communities to the Entrepreneurial Thought Leader seminar at Stanford University. I am

Ravi Balani, the managing director of alchemist and accelerator for enterprise startups and a lecture

in the management, science, and engineering department at Stanford. Today, we are kicking off

the spring quarter in the deep end. We're going deep, and I don't mean just in terms of just

deep entrepreneurship, but deep purpose. And're going deep. And I don't mean just in terms of just deep entrepreneurship,

but deep purpose. And so there are a few people that we could think of that could be better

than kicking off this spring quarter than Rungeh Gulati from Harvard Business School.

Runjee Gulati is the Paul R. Lawrence MBA class 1942, professor of business administration at Harvard Business

School and the former unit head of the organizational behavior unit at Harvard Business School.

He's an expert on leadership in turbulent times and has studied and written about the topic

for the past 25 years. His latest book, which is published in February, is entitled Deep Purpose,

the heart and soul of high performing companies. And it shows how companies are high performance

companies. And it shows how companies can embed purpose much more deeply than they currently do.

And that is going to be the focus of our session today.

Now, Runjay himself graduated with bachelor's degrees

in computer science and economics,

then went on to get a master's in management from MIT

and then a PhD from Harvard.

Before he was a professor at Harvard Business School,

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