Tami Heim has years of experience in books, as an executive and then president of Borders, as a senior executive with Thomas Nelson publishers, and as a consultant to authors and publishers with The A Group. She comments on various ways digital media has destroyed the business model for books.
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Rome Hartman: Television News in the Digital Age
Rome Hartman is executive producer of the new NBC primetime newsmagazine, Rock Center with Brian Williams. The former EP of 60 Minutes describes news production in a digital age. How do people hear about important issues when they choose their own sources from hundreds of channels and bloggers?
Darcy Antonellis: The Business of Digital Movies
Darcy Antonellis, president of technical operations, Warner Bros. Entertainment, describes the turbulent transition of a business model for movies in a digital age — a challenge from hackers, a changing model of home distribution due to the Internet, and new opportunities from games and simulation.
John Stanton: Wireless Telecommunications
John Stanton, chairman of Trilogy Partners, a wireless communications company, talks about running a for-profit wireless communications company in Haiti and Bolivia, two of the poorest nations in this hemisphere. He describes the cell phone role as bank, emergency communications, and business tool.
Dr. Jonathan Perlin: From Sick Care to Health Care
Jonathan Perlin, chief medical officer for the HCA health care system in Nashville, shares his passion for improving health care through better outcomes and lower costs — to move beyond sick care to a true health care system. More than ideas, they are things he did while CEO of the Veterans Health Administration.
Luke McGuinness: Patient Safety, Cost Containment
Luke McGuiness took over the leadership role for the Central Dupage County Hospital system as hospital administrator when it was intellectually and financially struggling. Today, it is one of America’s Top 100 Hospitals. McGuiness offers his insight on the process — with ideas applying well beyond the health care field.
Dr. Gary S. Kaplan: Determined Steps to Transformation
Virginia Mason Medical Center is one of two Top Hospitals of the Decade, according to The Leapfrog Group. In this second complete Conversation for Ethix’s look at health care, CEO Gary Kaplan discusses new ways for health care delivery.
Dr. Robert Wachter: Helping Health Care Get Well
Dr. Robert Wachter, considered the top U.S. academic physician/executive, talks about tough issues in 21st century health care, and why he supports the new health care legislation.
Guy Kawasaki: Starting a Business: Answer to Lost Jobs?
Guy Kawasaki, the author and entrepreneur talks about starting a business, the secret to a successful startup, what it will take to get out of the recession.
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