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A Global Forum
Business as an Agent of
World Benefit:
Management Knowledge
Leading Positive Change

October 22-25, 2006
In-Person and Online

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The purpose of the Virtual Conference is to explore the transformation of management to include strategic opportunities for solving the world’s most pressing issues while increasing business’ bottom line. The Conference will create a learning environment in which on-site and virtual participants will focus on transforming management practice, research and education for significant social change.

Please, referr to the schedule of events posted within the Virtual Community for most updated list of events. 



OCTOBER 23, 2006
MUCH IS AT STAKE: PREVIOUSLY INCONCEIVABLE POSSIBILITIES FOR BUSINESS AND SOCIETY'S SUCCESS

8:00 a.m.   Live Chat: Virtual Conference Welcome and Introductions

 
8:30 a.m.   Live Webcast: Welcome by David Cooperrider, Professor, Case Western Reserve University, and Georg Kell, Executive Director, United Nations Global Compact

9:30 a.m.   Live Webcast: Keynote by C.K. Prahalad, Paul and Ruth
McCracken
Distinguished University Professor of Corporate Strategy, University of Michigan
“Democratizing Commerce: THE Business Opportunity of the 21st Century”


10:30 a.m.  Live Chat: Virtual Appreciative Inquiry Dialogue
“Scaling Up for the Future: A Search for Innovation and
Macro-shifts”


11:15 a.m.   Live Virtual Panel: Context and the Role of Business in Society
What does context have to do with the role of business in society? Do history, culture, and socio-economic conditions change societal expectations and business opportunities? Panelists will share commentaries and stories from the field, and welcome your questions.

Panelists include:
·  Brook Horowitz, Executive Director, The Russia Partnership for Responsible Business Practices, The Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum
·  Mislav Ante Omazic, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb
·  Nadya Zhexembayeva, Director, World Inquiry, Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit, Case Weatherhead School of Management


11:50 a.m.   Live Webcast: Keynote by Amory Lovins, Chief Executive Officer, Rocky Mountain Institute, Inc.
“Profitable, Business-Led Solutions to Oil, Climate, and Nuclear Proliferation”


1:00 p.m.    Live Webcast: Remarks by Bertrand Collomb, Chairman, Lafarge, and Jeremy Oppenheim, Managing Director, McKinsey
“Doing Good, Doing Well: Eclipsing the Great Trade-Off Illusion”


4:30 p.m.    Live Webcast: Panel
“Signs of a Tipping Point”

Panelists include:
·  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


6:00 p.m.   Multi-media Presentation: Nicola Pless & Thomas Maak, Visiting
Senior Research Fellows at INSEAD
Developing Responsible Leaders Through Transformational Learning inCross-Sector Partnership: The Ulysses Experience at PricewaterhouseCoopers”

The presentation will remain available on-demand throughout the conference.


8:00 p.m.    Live Chat: Happy Hour
How is the conference going for you? Special comments and requests for
the next day? Ideas you are most excited about? Come join us for a
virtual  happy hour to connect and debrief!

 


OCTOBER 24TH – DREAMING WITH OUR FEET ON THE GROUND: EMBRACING OUR POWERFUL TIMES

8:30 a.m.    Live Webcast: Keynote by Peter Senge, Senior Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Founding Chair of the Society for Organizational Learning
“A Change in the Magnitude of Change”


9:00 a.m.    Live Webcast: Keynote by Patrick Cescau, Honorary Global Forum
Co-Chair, Group Chief Executive, Unilever
“Social Innovation: How Values-led Brands are Helping Drive Business Strategy”


10:00 a.m.    Live Webcast: Remarks by Nancy Adler, Professor, McGill University, and Introduction to BAWB Mini-Documentar


11:00 a.m.   Live Chat: Virtual Appreciative Inquiry Dialogue
“Dreaming with our Feet on the Ground: Connecting Aspirations for the World with Aspirations for our Field”

12:00 p.m.    Multi-media Presentation: Mary Grace Neville, Assistant Professor of
Economics and Business, Southwestern University, Leslie Sekerka, Assistant Professor, Naval Postgraduate School & Tracey Messer, Ph.D. Candidate, Case Western Reserve University
“Micro, Meta, Macro 3 Levels of Education for 21st Century Leadership

The presentation will remain available on-demand throughout the conference.


1:00 p.m.    Live Webcast: Keynote by William Christopher, Group President,
Alcoa Aerospace, Automotive and Commercial Transportation
“Embracing The Call of our Times”

1:30 p.m.    Live Webcast: Global Surveys: Are the World’s Citizens Including Students Ahead of Management Educators and Researchers?
·  Gallup World Poll Warren Wright, Managing Partner, The Gallup Organization
·  Net Impact MBA Student Survey Liz Maw, Executive Director, Net Impact


2:00 p.m.    Multi-media Presentation: Martin Klein, PhD Candidate, Erasmus
University Rotterdam, The Netherlands & Harry Commandeur Chair, Industrial Economics and Business Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, The Netherlands
“Business Challenges at the Base of the Pyramid

The presentation will remain available on-demand throughout the conference.


3:00 p.m.     Multi-media Presentation: Phil Mirvis, Senior Fellow, Center of Corporate Citizenship, Boston College & C. Keith Cox, President, Tirawa Consulting, Inc.
“Profiles in Responsible Leadership: Purpose, Passion, and Character

The presentation will remain available on-demand throughout the conference.


4:00 p.m.    Live Chat: Scaling Up Research on Business as an Agent of World Benefit
The Forum features nearly 200 papers, reviewed and selected for outstanding ideas and critical views. The Virtual Conference space hosts the database of all papers, along with audio abstracts, photos, and biographies of the authors. Join us for a live chat with some of the authors and share your comments and questions for papers that excite you the most.


8:00 p.m.    Live Chat: Happy Hour
How is the conference going for you? Special comments and requests for the next day? Ideas you are most excited about? Come join us for a virtual  happy hour to connect and debrief!

 


OCTOBER 25TH  – TAKING ACTION: LEVERAGING THE STRENGTHS OF OUR FIELD

8:30 a.m.       Live Webcast: 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:

·          Roberto Artavia Loria Rector, INCAE
·          Anders Aspling, Board Member, European Foundation for Management Developmen
·          Brodie Boland, President, AIESEC
·  
         Angel Cabrera, Dean, Thunderbird
·          Manuel Escudero, Head of Networks, UN Global Compact
·          Gifford and 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’s Mendoza College of Business, Chair, AACSB’s Initiative on Commerce and Peace



11:00 a.m.      Live Chat: Virtual Appreciative Inquiry Dialogue
“Moving Into Action: New Horizons for Management Education and Research”


2:00 p.m.        Live Webcast: Closing Ceremony
“Aiming Higher with Leadership Education for the Future”

Closing comments:
·          Ken Smith, President, Academy of Management
·          Georg Kell, Executive Director, United Nations Global Compact Office
·          Mohan Reddy, Interim Dean, Case Weatherhead School of Management

 

 

 

NOTE: Please note that the Virtual Forum agenda is still being finalized and may indeed change before the Forum begins.  Please consider the agenda here a draft subject to change.  All registrants will have access to the final Virtual Forum agenda inside the Online Conference community in which the Virtual Forum will take place.

 
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The Conveners Academy of ManagementUN Global CompactCase Weatherhead School of Management

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