MANAGING FOR sHAREHOLDER vALUE
This is what some senior executives have to say about Professor Ramanathan and his seminars:
"...Professor
Ramanathan is able to achieve an almost instant rapport with executives of
diverse backgrounds. He is
very effective both as a presenter and as a discussion leader.
His seminars are an outstanding success in all areas, exceeding not only
my expectations but also earning plaudits from all of the participants, ELDEC
managers, and corporate officers.
"...His
seminars have opened new ways of envisioning and operating our business.
We have had three (in-house) seminar series by Professor Ramanathan
to-date and intend to do them annually."
Bruno Strauss
President
ELDEC Corporation
"I
graduated from Harvard Business School with an MBA, and Professor Ramanathan did
a better job of explaining this material than I saw while at HBS. I learned a lot."
Senior Manufacturing Engineer
The Boeing Company
"...In
particular, his discussions around profit-based decentralization have caused a
number of participant groups to confer with senior management regarding our
company-wide transfer pricing policies.
He has developed in many of our participants a great deal of insight into
a complex set of issues around corporate versus divisional profit maximization.
In a newly decentralized company, this insight is invaluable.
Karin Kolodziejski, Manager,
Manager of Managers Program".
Tektronix, Inc.
...Looking
over my business career as a certified public accountant and professional
financial executive with over 15 years of industry experience, you were the
first individual that was able to integrate financial issues into the overall
dynamics of running a business...I have been able to apply a number of the
techniques that you presented...I unhesitatingly recommend your seminar for
senior managers and executives from any discipline, whether it be operational or
finance, to freshen and sharpen skills not only in financial, but also
organizational goal setting and performance monitoring."
Steven P. Erwin
Senior Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer
Old National Bank
"...Professor
Ramanathan was instrumental in helping me--a journalist--understand the
complexities of the world of business...He combines a keen understanding of
business with an outstanding teaching ability to help business people become
better managers..."
H. Mason Sizemore
President
The Seattle Times
Professor
Ramanathan boiled my four-year undergraduate education down into half-hour!
I can use what I learnt to improve communication with non-accountants.
…Frankly,
he should bottle what he does, sell it, and retire richer than Bill Gates.
…Is
there an “easy and quick” way to make accounting and finance understandable? Professor Ramanathan and his techniques are probably
about as close as you can get. He
made it even entertaining.
Senior executive participant
Aerospace Industry Manufacturing Seminar
“As I went through Professor Ramanathan’s week-long introduction to company financial models in the AIMS program, the light bulb went on. I saw that every component can be identified to a cost…and saw a way to link the people who build our product s
David Ott
Lean Strategy Specialist
The Boeing Company
"Professor
Ramanathan has a tremendous insight into the issues that face middle and upper
level management... The paradox in management is that a collection of excellent
individual decisions may not aggregate to a logical course of action for the
business as a whole. Professor
Ramanathan's seminars continuously draw the manager back from a focus on the
isolated decision into a consideration of the entire corporation.
"...He
successfully taught a group spanning chief executives, chief financial officers,
general administrators, retail store managers, engineers and lawyers.
All received the education they sought."
Dr. Brian G. Rohrback
President
Infometrix, Inc.
"I
am a practicing physician who is currently active in the area of medical quality
assurance, developing systems to measure, analyze and improve the health care
provided by thousands of physicians.
My knowledge in this area comes from both my medical training and the
concepts taught me by Dr. Ramanathan. "As taught by him, the science of
management control is at the very center of executive and organizational
success. Any manager can
profit by applying his teachings to plan and evaluate any organizational
performance.
David L. Potash, MD, MBA
Vice President
Utilization Review and Quality Assurance
AMI Group Health Services, Inc.