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Business as an Agent of World Benefit:
Management Knowledge Leading Positive Chnage
A Global Forum
Featured Speakers
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Nancy J. Adler is a Professor of International Management at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She received her B.A. in economics, M.B.A. and Ph.D. in management from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Dr. Adler conducts research and consults on global leadership, cross-cultural management, and women as global managers and leaders. She has authored over 100 articles, produced the film, A Portable Life, and published the books, From Boston to Beijing: Managing with a Worldview, International Dimensions of Organizational Behavior (5th edition, 2006), Women in Management Worldwide, and Competitive Frontiers: Women Managers in a Global Economy. |
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Ray C. Anderson is Chairman of Interface, Inc. Since 1994 Interface has reduced its environmental footprint more than by one third, redesigning processes and products, pioneering new technologies and reducing or eliminating waste and harmful emissions while increasing the use of renewable materials and sources of energy. Ray is recognized as one of the world’s most environmentally progressive industrialists and served as co-chairman of the President’s Council on Sustainable Development during the Clinton administration; was recognized by Mikhail Gorbechev with a Millennium Award from Global Green in September 1996; received the 1996 Ernest & Young Entrepreneur of Year for the Southeast Region and the 1997 Georgia Conservancy’s Conservationist of the Year. |
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Patrick Cescau, CEO of Unilever, was born in Paris in 1948. He was appointed CEO of the combined Unilever PLC and Unilever N.V. business in April 2005 and is the first person to hold this new position in the company’s history. Patrick began his career in 1973 when he joined Unilever France as an organisation officer. Since then his career has taken him to many countries across the world. He has held senior positions with Unilever in Germany, The Netherlands, Indonesia, Portugal, and in the US. Patrick was educated at ESSEC, graduating with a business degree, and later an MBA with distinction from INSEAD. Patrick is a non-executive director of Pearson PLC and a Conseiller du Commerce Exterieur de la France in Holland. He was awarded the Légion d'Honneur in January 2005. |
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William F. (Bill) Christopher is Executive Vice President, Alcoa, and Group President, Alcoa Engineered Products & Solutions. Bill is responsible for Alcoa’s global efforts in the aerospace, automotive and commercial transportation areas. He was appointed group president for Alcoa’s aerospace and commercial transportation groups in September 2002 and assumed additional responsibility for automotive in January 2003. Bill also led the customer and marketing initiatives for growth for the corporation until early 2006. In addition, he is a member of Alcoa's Executive Council, the senior leadership group that provides strategic direction for the company. Bill is also the director of Alcoa’s Global Aerospace Market Sector. |
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Bertrand Collomb is Chairman of Lafarge, the world-wide leader in building materials, with Euros 16 billion sales in 76 countries in 2005. A graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole des Mines in Paris, he also holds a French law degree and a PhD in Management (University of Texas). From 1966 to 1975, he worked with the French government in various positions. He also founded the Center for Management Research at the Ecole Polytechnique. He joined Lafarge in 1975. After several positions in various areas of the group, including CEO of Lafarge Corporation, the North American arm of the group (1985-1988), he was appointed chairman and CEO of Lafarge in August 1989. He is , since 2003, Chairman of Lafarge. |
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David Cooperrider is Professor of Organizational Behavior and Faculty Director of the Center for Business As An Agent of World Benefit, at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. David has served as researcher and consultant to a wide variety of rganizations, using the Appreciative Inquiry methodology which he pioneered. He is also the past President of the National Academy of Management's Division of Organization Development, and a co-founder of The Taos Institute. He has lectured and taught at Stanford University, MIT, University of Chicago, Katholieke University in Belgium, Pepperdine University, and others. |
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Marc Gunther writes about the impact of business on society. He is a senior writer at FORTUNE magazine, a columnist at CNNMoney.com and the author of Faith and Fortune: How Compassionate Capitalism is Transforming American Business (Crown Business, 2004).
Marc has written cover stories for FORTUNE about the greening of Wal-Mart and spirituality in the workplace. He has also written about CEO Jeff Immelt’s efforts to reshape the values of General Electric, the rise of corporate social responsibility, globalization, the environmental movement, corporate governance, AIDS and gay rights in corporate America. He has profiled media mogul Sumner Redstone, shareholder activist Bob Monks, evangelical minister Rick Warren and talk-show host Jay Leno in FORTUNE. |
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Amory Bloch Lovins was trained in physics and has worked professionally as an environmentalist. He is co-CEO of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a MacArthur Fellowship recipient (1994), and author and co-author of books which make arguments for and popularize energy-efficiency principles to public and corporate audiences. Lovins' works include Factor Four with Hunter Lovins and Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, and Natural Capitalism with Hunter Lovins and Paul Hawken. In the 1990s, his work with the Rocky Mountain Institute has included the design of an ultra-efficient automobile, the "Hypercar". |
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Jane Nelson is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and Director of Business Leadership and Strategy at the Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF). Jane is a primary resource for the Conference Board, the World Economic Forum, the UN Global Compact, and Business for Social Responsibility.
Co-author with Ira Jackson of the 2003 best seller 'Profits with Principles', Jane has also co-authored recent publications such as: ‘Business and the Millennium Development Goals’; ‘Building Partnerships’; ‘The Business of Peace’; and ‘Building Competitiveness and Communities’ and is an expert on business and society in emerging markets. |
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C.K. Prahalad is
the Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, specializes in corporate strategy. His books include 'Multinational Mission: Balancing Local Demands and Global Vision' (1987), co-authored with Yves Doz; 'Competing for the Future' (1994), co-authored with Gary Hamel, printed in fourteen languages and named the Best Selling Business Book of the Year in 1994; 'The Future of Competition: Co-Creating Unique Value with Customers' (2004), co-authored with Venkatram Ramaswamy, described by Business Week as “provocative” and “an important book full of disruptive ideas”; and 'The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty through Profit' (2004) which was selected as one of the best books of the year 2004 by The Economist, Fast Company and Amazon.com. |
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Peter M. Senge is a senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also founding chair of the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL), a global community of corporations, researchers, and consultants dedicated to the "interdependent development of people and their institutions." He is the author of the widely acclaimed book, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of The Learning Organization (1990) (revised edition published March 2006), and, with colleagues Charlotte Roberts, Rick Ross, Bryan Smith and Art Kleiner, co-author of The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization (1994) and a fieldbook The Dance of Change: The Challenges to Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations (March, 1999), also co-authored by George Roth. |
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William Starbuck is professor in residence at the Lundquist College of Business of the University of Oregon. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in industrial administration at Carnegie Institute of Technology, after receiving an A.B. in physics at Harvard. He has also been awarded honorary doctorates by universities in Stockholm, Paris, and Aix-en-Provence. Earlier, he held faculty positions in economics, sociology, or management at Purdue University, the Johns Hopkins University, Cornell University, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and New York University. In addition, he was a senior research fellow at the International Institute of Management in Berlin; he has been the editor of Administrative Science Quarterly; he chaired the screening committee for senior Fulbright awards in business management; he directed the doctoral program in business administration at New York University; and he was the president of the Academy of Management. |
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Bob Stiller has served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters since the company’s inception, in July 1981. Stiller holds a BA from Parsons College, Iowa, in mathematics, business administration and accounting. Currently, Bob serves on the Board of Advisors for the School of Business Administration at the University of Vermont. He is an advocate for Appreciative Inquiry and using business as an agent for world benefit. Bob is a certified meditation instructor, and he leads Inner Solutions, a non-profit organization devoted to that area of training. He has been featured on the cover of Forbes magazine two times, most recently in October 2001 when he was named “Entrepreneur of the Year”. |
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Dr. Carolyn Yauyan Woo is Martin J. Gillen Dean and Ray and Milann Siegfried Chair in Entrepreneurial Studies, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame. Dr. Woo assumed the deanship of the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame in 1997. Before then, she served as Associate Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at Purdue University. She joined Purdue as an Assistant Professor in 1981, became a Full Professor in 1991 and directed the Professional Master’s Programs in the Krannert School of Management from 1993 to 1995. |
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