IBGC Conferences and Events

IBGC convenes seminars, panels, conferences, and receptions engaging a wide range of stakeholders across our areas of research. To RSVP for a future public event or request information about a past event, please contact IBGC at internationalbusinesscenter@tufts.edu.

Upcoming Events

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Tufts Financial Network: Speaker Series

"The Imagination Crisis: Are the Days of Revolutionary Innovations Over?"

Panelists:

Lynda Applegate, Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration and Head of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit, Harvard Business School

Steven Koltai, A76, FG78, E12P, Managing Director and Founder, Koltai & Company, Serial Entrepreneur and Former Senior Advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the U.S. State Department's Global Entrepreneurship Program

Navjot Singh, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company, Head of McKinsey Boston

Moderator:

Bhaskar Chakravorti, Senior Associate Dean, International Business and Finance, and Executive Director, the Institute for Business in the Global Context, the Fletcher School at Tufts University

Past Events

Friday, April 27, 2012
The Cost of Cash in Context
A Panel Discussion
with: 
Tim Flacke, Executive Director, Doorways to Dreams (D2D) Fund
Yuwa Hedrick-Wong, Global Economic Adviser, MasterCard Worldwide
Ben Mazzotta, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, CEME, Fletcher
Moderated by Kim Wilson, Senior Fellow, CEME, Fletcher
The Fletcher School

Wednesday, April 4, 2012
The Opportunity of Crisis: Navigating International Business in an Uncertain World
Resource Crises: Food, Fuel and Water Scarcity--The Coming Conflict and Implications for Multinational Business and Finance
Co-hosted by the Tufts Financial Network and the Institute for Business in the Global Context
Boston, Massachusetts
This event is the third in a three-part series on the Opportunity of Crisis: Navigating International Business in an Uncertain World. During this capstone seminar, panelists will explore various aspects of resource scarcity and security and the implications for international business and finance. Panelists include:

• Kelly Sims Gallagher, Associate Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy and Acting Director, Center for International Environment and Resource Policy, The Fletcher School
• Richard Vogel, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director, Water: Systems, Science and Society Program, Tufts University
• Peter Walker, Rosenberg Professor of Nutrition and Human Security and Director, Feinstein International Center, Tufts University
• Moderator: Bhaskar Chakravorti, Senior Associate Dean, International Business and Finance and Executive Director, Institute for Business in the Global Context, The Fletcher School

Wednesday, March 7, 2012
The Opportunity of Crisis: Navigating International Business in an Uncertain World
Financial Crises: Disorder in the United States and European Union
Co-hosted by the Tufts Financial Network and the Institute for Business in the Global Context
New York, New York

This event was the second in a three-part series on the Opportunity of Crisis: Navigating International Business in an Uncertain World. In this session, panelists will discuss the turmoil in the U.S. and EU financial markets and its ripple effects throughout the global economy. Panelists included: Amar Bhidé, Thomas Schmidheiny Professor of International Business, The Fletcher School; Michael W. Klein, William L. Clayton Professor of International Economic Affairs, The Fletcher School; Chief Economist, U.S. Treasury Office of International Affairs (through January 2012). The session was moderated by Bhaskar Chakravorti, Senior Associate Dean, International Business and Finance and Executive Director, Institute for Business in the Global Context, The Fletcher School.

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