HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL GLOBAL LEADERSHIP FORUM TO FOCUS ON INTERSECTION OF BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT
Annual Alumni Event Will Showcase Best of Global Leadership Thinking, Research, and Practice
BOSTON - The Harvard Business School Global Leadership Forum (GLF) – always one of the highlights of the year for many alumni – will focus this year on the increasingly interrelated worlds of business and government. Bringing together HBS graduates, professors, and business and government leaders from around the world, the 2006 GLF, The Private Sector and the Public Interest, will take place in Washington D.C. from June 20-22nd and examine how the many intersections of the public and private worlds affect financial markets, innovation and technology, executive compensation, and society as a whole.
The Private Sector and the Public Interest will focus on such critical challenges as the U.S. health care system, antitrust policy, entrepreneurship, and minimizing risk management. Throughout the event, leadership issues will take center stage, as experts consider how decision making, management, and negotiation are best conducted within business and government. The 2006 Forum will also include a variety of formal and informal networking activities, with opportunities for alumni to interact during evening social events, designated networking areas, roundtable discussions, and preplanned and “drop-in” networking sessions.
HBS Professor and Senior Associate Dean Malcolm S. Salter (MBA ‘64) serves as faculty chair and Charles O. Rossotti, (MBA ‘64), Senior Advisor at the Carlyle Group, is alumni chair for the Forum. Newly appointed Dean Jay Light will be present to kick off the event with an address to attendees. In addition, Jeffrey Immelt (MBA ‘82), chairman and CEO of GE; Samuel Bodman, United States Secretary of Energy; Robert Rubin, former United States Secretary of the Treasury; and Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, are just a few of the world experts scheduled to present on high profile topics such as energy, healthcare, economic policy, and the environment.
During the event, HBS faculty will lead sessions with outstanding practitioners that address four key areas:
- Professor G. Felda Hardymon: Exporting Silicon Valley: Will the U.S. Private Equity Model Work Around the Globe?
- Professor Alan D. MacCormack: Managing Innovation in an Unpredictable World - The Intel Case
- Professor F. Warren McFarlan: How to Manage in the Information-Mediated Economy
- Professor Youngme Moon: For Better or Worse? How Technology is Transforming the Marketing Function
- Professor Howard H. Stevenson: Make Your Own Luck
- Professor David Yoffie: The Digital Home
- Professor Rawi Abdelal: Capital Rules: International Organizations, Rating Agencies, and Global Finance
- Professor Regina E. Herzlinger: A Bold Health Plan
- Professor David Moss: When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager
- Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter: How Business Leaders Can Make a Difference in the World: Keys to a Successful Marriage between Private Action and Public Interest
- Professor Debora L. Spar: The Baby Business: How Money, Science, and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception
- Professor Brian Hall: Executive Compensation and Public Policy
- Professor Paul M. Healy: What Happened to Our Financial Watchdogs?
- Professor Andre Perold: Hedge Funds, Capital Mobility, and the Public Interest
- Professor Luis M. Viceira: Saving for Retirement: Private Responses to an Aging Society
- Professor Max Bazerman: Predictable Surprises
- Professor David A. Garvin: Avoiding Flawed Decision Making
- Professor Allen S. Grossman: Creating a Management Revolution in Public Education
- Professor John A. Quelch: Public and Private: Different Models of Governance and Leadership
- Professor Jan W. Rivkin: Integrating Intelligence and Intelligent Integration in an Age of Threat
- Welcome Reception at the Library of Congress (June 20): Attendees will be treated to a unique reception in the Great Hall at the Library of Congress.
- Networking Dinners around D.C. (June 20): Small networking and class dinners hosted by D.C. area alumni will provide a special opportunity to meet with fellow attendees prior to the academic portion of the Forum.
- Networking Evening at the National Air and Space Museum (June 21): Alumni and their families will enjoy a wonderful reception and buffet dinner at the National Air and Space Museum with the opportunity to network with alumni and other global leaders alongside Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis and Apollo 11.
- “Monuments by Moonlight” (June 21): A “Monuments by Moonlight” tour will bring alumni and their families past the White House, the U.S. Capitol, the National Gallery of Art, the Lincoln Memorial, the new World War II Memorial, and many other monuments.
- State Dinner at the National Building Museum (June 22): At a gala dinner in the Great Courtyard of the National Building Museum Hall, guests will experience a “State Dinner” modeled after those hosted by U.S. presidents for foreign dignitaries.
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Founded in 1908 as part of Harvard University, Harvard Business School (www.hbs.edu) is located on a 40-acre campus in Boston. Its faculty of more than 200 offers full-time programs leading to the MBA and doctoral degrees, as well as more than 40 Executive Education programs. For almost a century, HBS faculty have drawn on their research, their experience in working with organizations worldwide, and their passion for teaching to educate leaders who have shaped the practice of business around the globe.