- Abagnale, Frank
- Accounting firms, career starts
- Adecco
- De Maeseneire (CEO)
- Adversity
- Agnelli family, impact
- Allen, Bob
- Ambition (van Boxmeer)
- American Anheuser-Busch, Belgo-Brazilian InBev (merger)
- American business, openness
- American Dream
- absence
- living
- American Red Cross
- American work culture
- Amstel brand, launch
- Amsterdam
- Aurik (birth/growth)
- Tweede Weteringplantsoen 21 (interview)
- Anheuser-Busch InBev
- business success
- Apple
- De Maeseneire position
- founding
- Arab-Israeli War (1948)
- war room, memory
- Arizona State University
- Armstrong, Neil
- Arthur Andersen
- A.T. Kearney
- Aurik, presence
- founding
- success
- Atlas Consult
- Aurik, Johan
- chairmanship/CEO, selection
- consultancy career
- consulting career, impact
- Fulbright grant
- Johns Hopkins University, masters’ degree
- leadership role
- lessons
- personal life, display
- personal reflections
- planning
- sacrifices
- work-life balance
- Avoca School District
- Avon
- Axis powers, impact
-
- Bain, Bill
- profile
- Bain & Company
- big client focus
- personnel, exit
- restructuring
- “results, not reports” commitment
- trouble
- Bankruptcies
- Chrysler avoidance
- Bantam Books
- Agnelli controlling interest
- bestsellers
- COO position, Vitale acceptance
- digitization, introduction
- I.F.I. purchase
- Barra, Mary
- Barry-Callebaut, De Maeseneire position
- Beaten track, exit
- Beijing University
- Belgium
- De Maeseneire (birth/growth)
- University of Leuven
- van Boxmeer birth/growth
- Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg (Benelux), De Maeseneire promotion
- Belgo-Brazilian InBev, American Anheuser-Busch (merger)
- Bell Telephone (Pennsylvania)
- Ben-Gurion, David
- Berlin Wall, fall
- Bertelsmann, Bantam stake (sale)
- Betting the bank, avoidance
- Bezos, Jeff
- Birra Moretti
- Blanchard, Olivier
- Boeing 707, flight
- Bois de la Cambre
- Boreel, Max
- Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
- Boston, Massachusetts (Bain & Company problems)
- Boston, Massachusetts (Digitas reinvention)
- Bourne Identity, The
- Brabeck-Letmathe, Peter
- Bralima
- Branson, Richard
- Breaking free
- Breneman, David
- British American Tobacco (BAT)
- self-perception
- British Empire, virtues
- Broad-based intelligence
- Bronner, Michael
- Kenney deal
- Brooklyn
- McGovern birth/growth
- Salzberg birth/growth
- Brooklyn College, Salzberg enrollment
- Brooklyn Law School (Salzberg JD)
- Brown & Williamson
- Buffett, Warren
- Bulcke, Paul
- ambitions
- CEO
- privilege
- secret
- interview
- lessons
- story
- Bull Durham (movie)
- Burggraeve, Chris
- CMO role
- Coca-Cola presence
- criminal charges, risk
- dreaming, importance
- engineering, study
- lessons
- life choices
- motivation
- parents, impact
- Prince Albert Fund, international fellowship
- risks/regrets
- story
- Burggraeve, Monique/Eric
- Business meetings, avoidance
- Business success
- Butterfly effect
-
- Callebaut, Barry
- Calvinism, conversion
- Cameron, Susan
- bachelor's/master's degrees,obtaining
- Brown & Williamson CEO
- career path, freedom
- CEO approach
- college/graduate school perspective
- consumer products, passion
- corporate practices, change
- cultural shock
- cultures, management ability
- financial freedom
- gender leadership role, taking
- gender role
- lessons
- MBA, acquisition (impact)
- mothers, impact
- personal reflections
- quitting, importance
- Reynolds American Inc
- story
- Canberra, Australia (Garrett birth/growth)
- Capitalism, Chinese characteristics (combination)
- Career
- arc, promise
- building
- interests, usage
- characteristics
- choices, risks
- decision, questions
- litmus test
- path, freedom
- rush, avoidance
- sabbatical
- starts
- Carson, Johnny
- Catch Me If You Can
- Chains, breaking
- Chartered accountant (CA), Likierman meeting
- Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
- Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
- ambitions, control
- backgrounds
- becoming, road
- secret
- Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), Burggraeve role
- China
- capitalism, possibility
- story
- Choices
- flexibility, end result
- informed choices, making
- Cholera outbreak
- Chrysler, bankruptcy (avoidance)
- Clients, servicing
- Clinton, Bill
- Coca-Cola
- business success
- Czech Republic, relationship
- domination
- Cola wars
- Collins, Hugh
- Columbia Law School, Salzberg LLM
- Columbia University
- Coming home
- Commercials, focus
- Communication, importance (understanding)
- Company
- explosion, process
- organization, attractiveness
- success
- Competition, outperforming
- Conditio sine qua non (indispensable condition)
- Confidence, presence
- Congo
- Burggraeve birth/growth
- coup d’etat
- van Boxmeer residence
- Consulting
- Cooper, William
- Corbis, CEO (Davis)
- Cornell University
- Corporate mercenary
- Corporate practices, change
- Course, change (knowledge)
- Credito Italiano
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Cultural quotient (CQ)
- Cultural Revolution
- Cultural shock
- Cultures, management (learning)
- Cyganet
- crash, aftermath
-
- Damon, Matt
- Darity, William
- Data Basics Corporation
- Data General
- Davis, Steve
- China visit (photograph)
- Columbia Law School degree
- Corbis CEO
- legal work
- lessons
- PATH CEO
- Princeton University acceptance
- societal/economic changes
- de Borms, Luc Tayaert
- Delegation, ability (learning)
- Deloitte, Haskins & Sells
- CEO (Salzberg)
- Deloitte, William Welch
- De Maeseneire, Patrick
- Adecco CEO
- Apple position
- Benelux regional manager role
- career, sabbatical
- Jacobs Holding
- jobs, change
- ladder, climbing
- results
- salary (increase), skills(equivalence)
- “Strategic Marketing Manager”position
- three-year rule
- “young potential,”
- Deneen School
- Deter, Jim
- Diamond, Peter
- Dickinson, Tim
- Dictaphones, sales
- Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
- Digitas
- cash, payroll coverage
- creation/change
- IPO
- NASDAQ valuation
- decrease
- peak
- recovery
- reinvention
- sale
- shares, decrease
- Direct selling
- “Direttore delle Partecipazione,”
- Di Rupo, Elio
- Discoveries, making
- “Doctors Without Borders,”
- Dornbursch, Rudiger
- Dot-com boom, share (capture)
- Dot-com bubble
- devaluations
- problems
- Dot-com crisis/crash
- Doubleday
- Dracula (Stoker)
- Dreaming, importance
- Duke Power, black list
- Duke University
- lessons
- DuPont, Vitale contact
- Dynamics, Inc.
- Dystel, Oscar
- retirement
-
- Eastern Caribbean Central Bank
- East Indian Company
- Ecuador, marketing (responsibility)
- Edelman, Richard
- betting the bank, avoidance
- CEO, classic image
- CEO, role
- communication, importance
- Harvard MBA
- lessons
- mother, impact
- noncompete clause, absence
- story
- young boy (photograph)
- Edison, Thomas
- EDS
- Egyptian Revolution
- Egypt, Vitale migration
- Eisenhower, Dwight
- Ekonomika
- El Alamein, Second Battle
- Electronic Arts (EA)
- Emotional intelligence (EQ)
- England, cultural liberation
- English Sewing Cotton
- Entrepreneur, success
- Ernst & Young
- European Commission, diplomacy career
- Europe, return
- Everett High School
- Exor holding
- Experiences, gathering
- Experiential marketing
- Ex-van sales
-
- Failure
- acceptance
- admission/apology/repair
- interaction/learning
- Family
- heritage, confrontation
- importance
- valuation
- success, mother (impact)
- travel
- Fears, dispensing
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
- Fiat
- Fiat Chrysler
- Financial freedom
- Financial risks
- Firestone, Vitale contact
- Firing, ability (learning)
- Fischer, Stanley
- Flower Power movement
- Freedom Coke, idea
- Fuji Film, campaign (signing)
- Fulbright grant
- Aurik collection
- message, crafting
- Fulbright, J. William
-
- Gabetti, Gianluigi
- Gadiesh, Orit
- Bain & Company, problems
- CEO target
- curiosity
- Harvard Business School (HBS)
- acceptance
- attendance
- learning process
- MBA, completion
- motivation, origin
- perseverance
- Gandhi, Mahatma
- Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
- Garrett, Geoffrey
- assistant professorship (Stanford University)
- Australia return
- Duke University
- experiences
- Durham residence
- lessons
- mentor (Lange)
- passion
- personal reflections
- Rhodes Scholarship
- story
- UCLA residence
- University of Oxford residence
- Wharton search
- Yale residence
- “Gate of Heavenly Peace,”
- Gates, Bill
- Gender leadership role, taking
- General Electric (GE) plant
- General Motors (GM)
- macroeconomic shock
- restructurings
- Vitale contact
- “young potentials” program
- General Motors Institute (GMI)
- Getty Images
- Ghent University, comparison
- Gisenyi, killings
- Goings, Rick
- CEO career
- college/graduate school,perspective
- G.I. Bill, assistance
- Guantanamo, destination
- job, quitting
- leadership experience, gaining
- lessons
- New York City arrival
- platoon leader, naming
- story
- Tupperware Brands
- CEO
- value perspective
- Goma, refugees (arrival)
- Goods
- delivery
- purchase
- Gooslbee, Austan
- Gopalakrishnan, Senapathy Kris
- computer science studies
- failure, acceptance
- fast-track career, missing
- Indian Institute of Technology(Madras) application process, problems
- lessons
- luck, impact
- photograph
- self-confidence, problems
- story
- success
- Government Model High School
- Great Eastern Hotel
- Great Lakes Naval Center, training
- Great Lakes Refugee Crisis
- Great Recession (2007–2008)
- Grisham, John
- Grolier Society
- direct-to-consumer selling
- encyclopedias, sale
- Grunfeld, Orit
- Guantanamo, Goings destination
- Gut instinct/feeling
-
- Habyarimana, Juvenal
- Handelszeitung
- Hard work, consideration
- Hartford, Connecticut
- Underwood typewriter factory
- Harvard Business School (HBS)
- Edelman MBA
- Gadiesh acceptance
- Kenny acceptance
- Haskins & Sells
- Havel, Vaclav
- Hebrew University
- Heidrick & Struggles
- Heineken
- market share, doubling
- story
- Heineken Congo
- Heineken Rwanda, commercial manager (role)
- Heineken Zaire
- turbulence
- Helping
- Hemingway, Ernest
- Henry, Peter
- dean (New York University)
- high school basketball(photograph)
- Jamaica residence
- lessons
- MIT residence
- Morehead Scholarship
- Rhodes Scholarship
- story
- Hiring, process (learning)
- History, waves
- Home
- defining
- leaving
- Hutu Rwandans, fleeing
-
- Iacocca, Lee
- IBM
- Vitale contact
- Watson project
- career change (Kenny)
- I.F.I.
- Bantam sale
- India, macroeconomic environment (consideration)
- Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), engineering entrance exam
- Informed choices, making
- Infosys
- employee growth
- founders (photograph)
- IPO, aim
- revenues, doubling
- shares, value (decrease)
- survival
- Initial public offering (IPO), impact
- Inner self, deletion
- In-store advertising, focus
- Intellectual curiosity
- Intelligence, impact
- Interests, usage
- Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
- International Monetary Fund(IMF)
- Internet
- impact
- revolution
- Israel (Gadiesh birth/growth)
- Italy, cultural habits (impact)
-
- Jacobs Holding
- Jacobs, Klaus
- Jacobs Suchard
- Jobs
- change
- criteria, compromise (absence)
- international move
- ladder, climbing
- preparedness/results, display
- sabbatical
- selection
- Jobs, Steve
- Johns Hopkins University
- masters’ degree (Aurik)
- McGovern presence
- Johnson, Dwayne
- Johnson, Earvin “Magic,”
- Juventus, F.C.
-
- Kagame, Paul
- president, election
- Kenny, David
- Bain employment
- Bain exit
- Bain partnership
- career move, timing
- CEO reputation
- Digitas shares, decrease
- family, importance
- future, concerns
- GMI graduation
- Harvard Business School (HBS) acceptance
- intellectual curiosity
- lessons
- post-doc-com story
- riches, disappearance
- risk profile
- story
- Watson platform business
- Weather Company sale
- Kenyatta, Jomo
- Kerala, India (Gopalakrishnan birth/growth)
- Kettering University
- Keustermans, Raf
- company sale
- dreams
- Ginger One, The
- investor money, recovery
- job search
- lessons
- marketing knowledge
- story
- Khamenei, Ayatollah
- Kissinger, Henry
- Kivu Lake (plantation)
- Klinger, Qualitex acquisition
- KPMG
- Kraft
- Krugman, Paul
-
- L’Amour, Louis
- Lange, Peter
- Lansing, Michigan (Kenny birth/growth)
- Latin America, inflation
- Leadership
- experience, gaining
- importance
- role (Aurik)
- Learning
- Lectures on Macroeconomics (Blanchard/Fischer)
- Leonard N. Stern School of Business (NYU), dean (Henry)
- Lessons
- Libreville (Gabon)
- Lier, Belgium (Keustermans birth/growth)
- Life, balance
- “Lighted Path, The” (terror attacks)
- Likierman, Andrew
- choices/flexibility
- communication, importance (understanding)
- lessons
- London Business School
- dean
- professorship
- story
- University of Oxford studies
- Lockheed Martin
- F104 Starfighter assembly line
- Vitale contact
- London
- London Business School
- dean (Likierman)
- professorship (Likierman)
- Lorillard, acquisition
- Lumumba, Patrice
-
- Maarten Brands
- Maggi products
- Makela, Mary (passion)
- Management consulting firms,career start
- Manifesto of Race, introduction
- Market economy, India (direction)
- Marketing, focus
- Mars
- Mason-Dixon Line
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Henry residence
- Masters of Business Administration (MBA), impact
- Material success, deflection
- Mau Mau Revolution
- MBA, acquisition (impact)
- McGovern, Gail
- American Red Cross
- AT&T presence
- career decision, questions
- delegation, ability (learning)
- fear, dispensing
- hiring/firing process, learning
- inner self, deletion
- Johns Hopkins University presence
- mothers, impact
- parenthood, priority
- passion
- personal life, sorting
- stability, finding
- watershed moment
- McKinsey & Co.
- Mergers & acquisition (M&A) activities
- Merit, importance
- Microsoft Windows, development
- Minitel
- Mirrorball Slots app
- Mobutu, Joseph
- Mondelez
- Moran, Jodi
- Morehead Scholarship
- Motivation
- finding
- origin
- Mr. Bookmaker, usage
- MS-DOS, development
- Multinational companies, career starts
- Murthy, Narayan
- Museveni, Yoweri
- Mussolini, Benito
- Manifesto of Race, introduction
- My American Journey (Powell)
-
- Naguib, Muhammad
- NASDAQ
- growth
- value, decrease
- Nasser, Gamal Abdal (presidency)
- Nazi Germany
- Nazism, threat
- Nehru, Jawaharlal
- Nesquik
- commercial, story line
- Nestlé
- business, leading
- long-term perspective
- packaging material, seizure
- purchase division, goods purchase
- New Amsterdam
- Newhouse, S.I.
- New York City
- Goings arrival
- Infosys/Digitas, success
- Vitale arrival/success
- New York University, dean (Henry)
- Nido
- 9/11 attacks. See World Trade Center
- Northern identity, sense
- Ntaryamira, Cyprien
-
- Obama, Barack
- Olivetti
- capital, raising
- liaison
- sale
- technology race, loss
- Underwood purchase
- Vitale employment
- Opportunities
- advantage
- creation
- Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
-
- Pahlavi, Mohammad Reza
- Parenthood, priority
- Passion
- presence
- PATH, CEO (Davis)
- Patni Computer Systems
- Paul II, John
- People
- empowerment
- personal connections, development/maintenance
- Pepsi, domination
- Perron, Piero
- Perseverance
- consideration
- exercise
- knowledge
- Personal connections, development/maintenance
- Personal life, sorting
- Philip, C.C.
- PKK bombings, impact
- Playfish
- Playtex, offer
- Plumbee, Keustermans setup
- Poland
- growth
- textile business
- van Boxmeer (cultural shock)
- Portugal, marketing responsibility
- Powell, Colin
- PriceWaterhouseCoopers
- Prince Albert Fund
- international fellowship (Burggraeve)
- Princeton University, Davis acceptance
- Prising, Jonas
- Procter & Gamble (P&G), Burggraeve (presence)
- Product person, characteristics
- Publicis
- Digitas sale
- Kenny, presence
- Pueblos Jovenes
-
- Qualitex
- family opening
- Klinger purchase
- public company
- success
- Quitting
- decision
- importance
-
- Random House
- Randt, Dana
- Rees, Matthew
- Regent's Park
- Relations, building/strength
- Remi, Georges
- Renjen, Punit
- Deloitte position
- Responsibilities, increase
- Reynolds American Inc.
- Lorillard purchase
- Rhodes Scholarships
- Garrett acceptance
- Henry acceptance
- Rice, Condoleezza
- Risks
- concepts
- financial risks
- regrets, absence
- Role models
- Rommel, Erwin
- Romney, Mitt
- Bain CEO, hiring
- recruitment
- Rothko, Mark
- Royal Parks
- Rwanda
- civil war
- colonial rule (Belgium)
- control, ceding
- description
- serum, production
- van Boxmeer residence
- Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF)
- founding
- Tutsi control
- unity government, installation
-
- SAB Miller, acquisition
- Salary (increase), skill (equivalence)
- Sale, making
- Salzberg, Barry
- adaptability
- Brooklyn College enrollment
- Columbia Law School (LLM)
- Deloitte CEO
- lessons
- life balance
- socioeconomic background
- tax planning, specialization
- technician, branding
- Sandberg, Sheryl
- Sanders, Bernie
- Scott Graphics
- Second Battle of El Alamein
- Sellers, Patricia
- Serendipity
- function/success
- origins
- Serendip, story
- Serum, production
- ‘7 Bucks’ (production company)
- Sherlock Holmes, Game of Shadows
- Shields, Tom
- Shining Path, The (impact)
- Sistine Chapel
- Smith College
- Social intelligence
- Software services, demand (increase)
- Solow, Robert
- South Africa, post-Apartheid
- Stability, finding
- Stanford Business School
- Stanford University
- Start-up companies, investing
- Steele, Danielle
- Stella Artois
- St. Louis Cardinals (Busch ownership)
- Stock market crash, impact
- Stockton's Men's Clothing &Furnishing
- Stoker, Bram
- Stream, opposition
- Studio
- Success, recipe
- Suez Canal, control
-
- Tan, Gerald
- Teams, building (learning)
- Telecom Italia, Olivetti purchase
- Textbook intelligence
- Thompson, Dudley
- “Three Princes of Serendip, The,”
- Tiananmen Square
- Tintin
- Toblerone
- Toffler, Alvin
- Tohmatsu Limited
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Tootal
- Touche, Ross, Bailey and Smart
- Transition Team
- Trium Executive MBA program
- Trivandrum
- True north
- awareness
- meanings
- True north, finding
- Truman, Harry S.
- Tse Tung, Mao
- Tunnel vision, development
- Tupperware Brands
- Tupperware parties
- Turin, Italy (Vitale return)
- Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Front
- Tutsis
- control
- genocide
-
- UK Government Accountancy Service
- Underwood
- Olivetti purchase
- typewriter factory
- UN General Assembly, Davis attendance
- Unibet, notoriety
- Unicorn, sale
- UniCredit
- Unilever
- United Way
- University of Antwerp
- University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Garrett residence
- University of Chicago
- University of Jerusalem
- University of Leuven (Belgium)
- University of North Carolina
- Morehead Scholarship
- University of Oxford
- lessons
- Likierman studies
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Torino (Vitale attendance)
- University of Virginia
- University of Washington
- Unraveling
- USA Dream Team
- U.S. Military Academy, comparison
- USS Power (Goings assignation)
-
- van Boxmeer, Jean-Francois
- ambition
- beaten track, exit
- Cameroon, return
- CEO, attainment
- Congo residence
- culture, adaptation
- failure, admission/apology/repair
- giving, importance
- goods
- delivery
- purchase
- Heineken CEO
- leadership, importance
- lessons
- patron, role
- Poland, cultural shock
- story
- stream, opposition
- Zaire visit (photograph)
- Van Riet, Libert
- VAX (minicomputer system)
- Venner, K. Dwight
- Venture capital, example
- Vercelli, Italy (Vitale birth/growth)
- Vevey, Switzerland (Nestlé headquarters)
- Vietnam War
- Virgin Galactic
- Vision, development
- Vitale, Albert
- Bantam Books COO positioncceptance
- CEO, desire
- company contacts
- credibility
- cultural shock (Italy)
- “Direttore delle Partecipazione”
- Fulbright grant
- lessons
- migration (Egypt)
- Olivetti
- liaison
- Order of the Nile decoration
- personal connections, development/maintenance
- photograph
- success
- travel plans, impact
- United States return
- University of Torino
- Wharton attendance
- Von Helsing, Abraham
- Vuursteen, Karel
-
- Walesa, Lech
- Wang Laboratories (De Maeseneire job)
- Watson project (IBM)
- career move (Kenny)
- Wayne, Ronald
- Weather Channel, The
- Weather Company, The
- sale, completion
- West Indian Company
- Wharton
- Garrett, search
- visit
- Vitale attendance
- Whittaker, Gavin
- Wilmette, Illinois (Henry birth/growth)
- Winter Olympics (1998)
- Wise, Brownie
- Wolfe, Louis
- “Work hard, play hard” mantra
- Work-life balance
- World Bank
- World Economic Forum (Davos), annual meeting
- World Health Organization
- World Tour for Heineken, completion
- World Trade Center, Twin Towers attacks
- financial fall-out
- Wozniak, Steve
-
- Xerox machines, sales
- Xiaoping, Deng
-
- Yahoo
- Yale, Garrett residence
- Yang, Jerry
-
- Zaire (Bralima brewery)
- van Boxmeer visit (photograph)
- Zuckerberg, Mark
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