Leadership Excellence and Accelerated Development (LEAD) was a 10 months program by Harvard Business Publishing/ HBS and Cisco. The program aims to develop effective leaders who can think strategically and execute in a global organization. The program was enabled by Cisco Collaboration technologies including webex, Video Conferencing, TelePresence and HBS online training system. see more at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI62SOlA6m8

1. How My HBS Dream
Came True
Phan Thanh Son
Cisco Vietnam
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2. Asking if it would
happen in Vietnam
when first time saw
this clip in 2010?
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3. Delivers teaching to students who aren’t present in the
classroom via technology Thinking about a dream
to attend HBS program
virtually when
presenting about Cisco
Smart+Connected
Learning solution to one
University in Vietnam
Leverage existing faculty to meet the needs of larger student
bodies by sharing highly qualified faculty through distance
learning
Distance learning programs can become as
immersive as traditional programs, even sharing
the same lectures. Students in remote areas
can take specialized programs or advanced
placement classes.
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4. Dec 2010: first pilot
to have a professor
from Stanford to
train Cisco
employees in Hanoi
and HCMC by TP
and Smartboard
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5. 11/2011: The
dream came true
Can not believe it!
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6. This news came up
in May 2012!
We were among first
students of this
http://www.cnbc.com/id/47280161/Harvard_and_MIT_to_Offer_Online_Courses_A_Step_in_Lowering_College_Costs
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9. 10 moths
program! Wow
how can we
balance with
sales pressers?
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20. Check list:
• Absent: 1
• From TP room: 1
• From hotel: 3
• From airport: 2
• From customer sites: 2
• By movi: > 90%
• By 3G modem: 3
• Virtually: 100% !
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22. Thank you
very much
Michele! We
will miss
you a lot!
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23. Finally We
Met F2F!
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