Dean's Speaker Series
Presented by the Merrick School of Business
At the Merrick School of Business, we seek to provide a forum for our students and the business community to reflect on current business trends and forge new tools for a changing business environment. To this end, we have established the Dean's Speaker Series, an ongoing opportunity for our many constituencies—UB students, but also educators, alumni, business leaders, and those interested in the impact of business on the world at large—to gain valuable insights into this environment.
What do we mean when we discuss sustainable growth? How is "the bottom line" evolving, on both Main Street and Wall Street? Will capitalism be recognizable to us in the global economy of 2025, 2050 and beyond?
Tough questions, and no one has all the answers. But with each guest that we bring to you via the Dean's Speaker Series, you will learn more, and be able to do more, with the information and experiences that they bring.
The series debuted in April 2009 with a talk by Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of the Grameen Bank.
Speakers coming this fall:
- Sept. 24, 2009 - Rosabeth Moss Kanter, author of the new (and already acclaimed) SuperCorp and the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor at Harvard Business School. Kanter will discuss the model corporation of the future.
- Oct. 14, 2009 - David Wessel, Wall Street Journal Economic Editor and Author of In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic, will appear on campus on Oct. 14, 2009. Wessel reveals in scary detail how unprepared the politicians and regulators truly were for the calamity, and how close we came to a depression that could easily have rivaled what the nation saw in the 1930s.
- Nov. 10, 2009 - Erik van Ommeren, co-author of Collaboration in the Cloud: How Cross-Boundary Collaboration is Transforming Business, will appear on campus on Nov. 10, 2009. This book addresses the changes and opportunities that come with this new business world that is starting to show all around us. It talks about autonomous, bottom up organizations where innovation and collaboration are part of the culture. Value Chain 2.0 (offering value to the marketplace) and Cloud Computing are discussed in the book.
- Watch out for spring 2010 speaker announcements coming soon.
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