Business as an Agent of World Benefit:
Management Knowledge Leading Positive Chnage
A Global Forum
Agenda
OCTOBER 22, 2006
6:00 p.m. Opening Keynote and Welcome Reception
Ray Anderson
Founder and Chairman, Interface, Inc.
OCTOBER 23, 2006
MUCH IS AT STAKE: PREVIOUSLY INCONCEIVABLE POSSIBILITIES
FOR BUSINESS AND SOCIETY'S SUCCESS
8:30 a.m. Opening Dialogue
Welcome Message Sent from Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations
Delivered by Georg Kell
Executive Director, United Nations Global Compact Office
David Cooperrider
Professor and Chairman, Department of Organizational Behavior, Case Weatherhead School of Management
9:30 a.m. Democratizing Commerce: THE Business Opportunity of the 21st Century
C.K. Prahalad, Honorary Global Forum Co-Chair
Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Corporate Strategy, University of Michigan
10:25 a.m. Scaling Up for the Future
First Round Table Dialogue
Introductory Insight: Rodrigo da Costa Rocha Loures
Co-founder and CEO, Nutrimental Foods and President, Industrial Federation of Parana, Brazil (FIEP)
11:10 a.m. First Plenary Dialogue
Representatives report on their findings followed by plenary, whole group dialogue.
11:50 a.m Amory Lovins
Chief Executive Officer, Rocky Mountain Institute, Inc.
12:30 p.m. Doing Good, Doing Well: Eclipsing the Great Trade-Off Illusion
Lunch sponsored by The Coca-Cola Company will be served.
Bertrand Collomb
Chairman, Lafarge Group
Jeremy Oppenheim
Managing Director, McKinsey
2:30 p.m. Making the Impossible Possible
Workshops and Research Conversations
Forum participants attend sessions for which they have pre-registered. First round meetings representing more than 115 workshops, research conversations, and paper presentations.
4:30 p.m. Signs of a Tipping Point
Panel, including:
Marc Gunther, Senior Writer, Fortune Magazine
Georg Kell, Executive Director, United Nations Global Compact Office
Barbara Krumsiek, President and CEO, Calvert Management
Larry Reed, CEO, Opportunity International Networks
Roger Saillant, President and CEO, Plug Power
6:30 p.m. Evening Receptions
OCTOBER 24TH
DREAMING WITH OUR FEET ON THE GROUND: EMBRACING OUR POWERFUL TIMES
8:30 a.m. A Change in the Magnitude of Change
Peter Senge (via video stream)
Senior Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Founding Chair of the Society for Organizational Learning
9:00 a.m. Social Innovation: How Values-led Brands are Helping Drive Business Strategy
Patrick Cescau, Honorary Global Forum Co-Chair
Group Chief Executive, Unilever
10:00 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. Dreaming with our Feet on the Ground: Connecting our Aspirations for the World with our Aspirations for the Field
Second Round Table Dialogue
Introductory Insight: Nancy J. Adler
International Management Professor, McGill University
12:00 p.m. Second Plenary Dialogue
Representatives report their findings to the plenary followed by whole group dialogue.
12:30 p.m. "Embracing the Call of our Times"
Lunch will be served.
William Christopher
Group President, Alcoa Engineered Products and Solutions
Global Surveys: Are the World's Citizens Including Students Ahead of Management Educators and Researchers?
Gallup World Poll
Warren Wright, Managing Partner
Net Impact MBA Student Survey
Liz Maw, Executive Director, Net Impact
2:30 p.m. Making the Impossible Possible
Workshops and Research Conversations
Forum participants attend sessions for which they have pre-registered. Second round meetings representing more than 115 workshops, research conversations, and paper presentations.
4:30 p.m. Making the Impossible Possible
Workshops and Research Conversations
Forum participants attend sessions for which they have pre-registered. Third round meetings representing more than 115 workshops, research conversations, and paper presentations.
6:30 p.m. Can Business Become the Most Important Force for Peace in the World?
Reception at Museum of Natural History
Jane Nelson
Director, Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, Harvard University and Director, Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF)
Bobby Sager
Former President, Gordon Brothers Group and Founding Chairman of Young Presidents’ Organization Peace Action Networ
OCTOBER 25TH
TAKING ACTION: LEVERAGING THE STRENGTHS OF OUR FIELD
8:30 a.m. Management Knowledge Leading Positive Change: Action Initiatives
What questions should we be asking? Session highlights initial initiatives of a range of exemplary educators from multiple countries, including:
Anders Aspling,
Board Member, European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD), and Head, the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative by EFMD and the UN Global Compact
Brodie Boland
President, AIESEC
Angel Cabrera
President, Thunderbird
Manuel Escudero
Head of Networks, UN Global Compact Office
Phil Mirvis
Senior Fellow, Center for Corporate Citizenship, Boston College
Gifford & Libba Pinchot
Co-Founders, Bainbridge Graduate Institute
Judith Samuelson
Director, Aspen Institute
William Starbuck
Professor, University of Oregon
Former President, Academy of Management
Jim Walsh
Professor, University of Michigan
Carolyn Woo
Dean, Notre Dame, Mendoza College of Business
Chair, AACSB's Initiative on Commerce and Peace
11:00 a.m. Action Dialogues
Groups design specific initiatives and action to undertake following the Forum.
1:00 p.m. Plenary Dialogue on Action Initiatives and Results of the Global Forum
Representives report on their commitments to action.
Lunch will be served.
2:00 p.m. Aiming Higher with Leadership Education for the Future
Closing comments:
Ken Smith
President of the Academy of Management
Georg Kell
Executive Head,
United Nations Global Compact
Mohan Reddy
Interim Dean, Case Weatherhead School of Management
3:00 p.m. Close of the Global Forum and Moving Towards Action
