[Mitworld] Richard Schrock on Chemistry, Bill Porter on Leadership

Thu Jun 24 09:34:47 EDT 2010

MIT World Newsletter

Volume 9, Number 44 |  June 24, 2010

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Lunch with a Laureate: Richard Schrock
April 30, 2010

Richard Schrock explores his fascination with science and his own field of expertise—inorganic 
chemistry. While working at DuPont Central Research in the early 70s, he began working with metal 
compounds from Group 6 in the Period Table that ultimately led to the catalytic reaction that 
won him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2005). Learn how it all started with a gift of a chemistry set when
he was eight years old.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/785

Speaker:
Richard R. Schrock
Frederick G. Keyes Professor of Chemistry
2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Event Host:
MIT Museum

"Science is the future. All major advances come down to science and scientific research. If you 
think about what you enjoy today, it’s all based on science."
-Richard Schrock

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Bill Porter in Conversation with Howard Anderson
April 28, 2010

Bill Porter shares his own "light bulb moment" when he discovered that a simple Apple computer could give
him stock quotes, hours before the morning newspaper arrived.  This moment in the early 1980's led to
the creation of E-Trade.  Howard Anderson hosts this lively conversation on leadership.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/784

Speakers:
William Porter SF '67
Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus, E*Trade Financial Corporation

Howard  Anderson
William Porter Distinguished Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurship, MIT Sloan

Event Host:
MIT Sloan School of Management

"It’s a case where the entrepreneur wants to build a business, and is madly in love with a great 
concept, and the VC wants to make a quick buck. It’s a partnership, but the guy with control is the 
guy with bucks. That’s not a good recipe. ... You have a dichotomy of interests."
-Bill Porter

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In The Pipeline:

Humanistic Approaches to the Graphical Expression of Interpretation

Presented By:
HyperStudio

Speaker:
Johanna Drucker
Professor, Department of Information Studies
UCLA

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