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MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga on Taking Risks in Your Life and Career

During his View From The Top talk at Stanford GSB, MasterCard President and CEO Ajay Banga emphasized the importance of communication, taking risks, learning from everyone around you, and surrounding yourself with people who think…

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Released
June 13, 2014
Duration
49m
Channel
Stanford Graduate School of Business
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

During his View From The Top talk at Stanford GSB, MasterCard President and CEO Ajay Banga emphasized the importance of communication, taking risks, learning from everyone around you, and surrounding yourself with people who think differently than you do. He also discussed why innovation is "mission critical" in the payments industry. (Recorded April 24, 2014) Find more conversations with global business leaders on "View From The Top: The Podcast." https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/view-top-podcast Related article: http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/mastercard-ceo-challenge-conventional-wisdom More about the View From The Top speaker series: http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/vftt All View From The Top videos: http://www.youtube.com/course?list=EC5C14B375A7F2FEA8

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  • Ajay Banga

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    CEO of MasterCard (at time of recording), with prior leadership experience at Nestlé, PepsiCo, and Citigroup.

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Stanford Graduate School of Business, featuring Ajay Banga, MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga on Taking Risks in Your Life and Career explores Ajay Banga on risk-taking, humility, and building a world beyond cash Ajay Banga traced his career from Nestle to PepsiCo to Citigroup to MasterCard, emphasizing that his biggest moves were made when he felt he had learned enough and risk was necessary to keep growing.

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