Heidi Roizen

Heidi Roizen is Managing Director of Mobius Venture Capital. She serves on the Boards of Directors of Reactrix, Ecast, LoyaltyLab, Perpetual Entertainment, Mondo Media, and AuctionDrop. She is one of the most prolific networkers in Silicon Valley.

STVP Educators Corner

The STVP Educators Corner is a free online archive of high-technology entrepreneurship resources for teaching and learning. The mission of the project is to support and encourage faculty around the world who teach entrepreneurship to future scientists and engineers, as well as those in management and other disciplines.

Book Recommendation: Judgment in Managerial Decision Making

Too often, decisions are clouded by personal biases and uncertainty. This book shows how to identify common biases in order to make better decisions. This book shows that statistics and quantitative methods may lead to more informed, better prescriptive recommendations when making decisions under uncertainty.

The Stanford Prison Experiment

The Stanford prison experiment was a landmark psychological study of the human response to captivity, in particular, to the real world circumstances of prison life. It was conducted in 1971 by a team of researchers led by Philip Zimbardo of Stanford University. Volunteers played the roles of guard and prisoner, and lived in a mock prison. However, the experiment quickly got out of hand, and was ended early.

Leading by Leveraging Culture

California Management Review's award winning article by Jennifer Chatman clarifies why culture is powerful and provides specific criteria for developing a strong, strategically relevant culture that is likely to enhance an organization's performance over the long haul.