Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman on Hiring Phenomenal People

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

November 26, 2014

Duration

51m

Channel

Stanford Graduate School of Business

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

“You won’t do well unless you’re hiring people who are consistent with your values,” shared Blackstone Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder Stephen Schwarzman during his November 18th View From The Top talk at Stanford GSB. Schwarzman also discussed how to handle entrepreneurial rejection. Read more insights on Twitter: http://stanford.io/1wZEI2O

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Stephen Schwarzman

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  Co-founder and CEO of Blackstone; founder of the Schwarzman Scholars program.

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Stanford Graduate School of Business, featuring Stephen Schwarzman, Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman on Hiring Phenomenal People explores Schwarzman on building Blackstone: strategy, thick skin, and elite hiring Stephen Schwarzman describes founding Blackstone as an exercise in defining a distinctive strategy before acting, including early plans spanning M&A, private equity, and building businesses that create intellectual capital.

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