Saraide's Chairman Hatim Tyabji on creating and sustaining a values-based organizational culture
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Abstract
Academy President's Executive Overview My decision about whom to select as the Academy of Management's Executive of the Year revolved around the concept of values. I wanted to showcase a leading CEO who has been successful in creating an innovative and highly profitable company, and who has done so based on a strongly held system of personal values that permeate the organization and everyone in it. In making my selection, I enlisted the help of Professor André Delbecq, director of the Institute for Spirituality of Organizational Leadership at the University of Santa Clara. The executive he recommended, Hatim Tyabji, fulfills these criteria in outstanding ways. Mr. Tyabji has had a significant impact on the telecommunications industry. In 1998. he founded Saraide to drive the convergence between the Internet and wireless communications. The company delivers a wide range of wireless Internet services to customers around the world. In 1999, he negotiated the sale of 80 percent of Saraide to lnfoSpace.com, a leading Internet information and commerce infrastructure provider, creating the largest global alliance in the wireless Internet services market. As a result, customers using pagers, cell phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), or television-set-top boxes can access a wide range of wireless services, including address books and calendars, stock quotes, travel information, local business locator services, personal banking, price comparison shopping, and purchasing. By combining Infospace.com's leadership in Internet-based information services and Saraide's leadership in sophisticated wireless data services, the notion of “the web in your pocket” is rapidly becoming a compelling solution for commerce, communication, and collaboration. Hatim Tyabji was born in Bombay, India, in 1945, moved to the U.S. in 1967, and became a naturalized citizen. He holds a B.S. from the College of Engineering in Poona, India, an M.S. from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and an MBA in infernationai business from Syracuse University. From 1986 to 1998, he was the founding chairman and CEO of VeriFone, Inc., and held executive positions at Sperry from 1973 to 1986. He is a member of the board of the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. The following pages record a conversation that I asked André Delbecq to conduct at the 2000 Academy of Management meetings in Toronto, Canada.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.008 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.016 | 0.007 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".