Global Speaker Series 2002 - 2003

2007-08 | 2006-07 | 2005-06 | 2004-05 | 2003-04 | 2002-03| 2001-02

Spring 2003

Tuesday, Feb 4, 2003

Stephen A. DeSalvo
Group Executive for Fleet Global Rate Markets

Topic:  "Challenges and Opportunities in Risk Management"

5:30 - 6:30 pm Presentation/Q&A
6:30 - 7:30 pm Reception CABOT 7th Floor

Tuesday, Feb 11, 2003

Eric Lesser, Executive Consultant/Research Manager, IBM's Institute for Knowledge-Based Organizations

Topic: Knowledge Management: Leveraging Global Insights to Improve Organizational Performance

5:30 - 7:30 pm
Cabot 7th Floor

Tuesday, Feb 18, 2003

Chris Hummel, F'93, Vice President Marketing, Oracle Asia Pacific
Division

Topic: Spanning the Globe for Opportunities: The Oracle Asia Pacific
Story

5:30 - 6:30 pm
6:30 - 7:30 pm Reception
Cabot 7th Floor

Tuesday, March  25, 2003

Paul Mulhollem
President/COO, Archer Daniels Midland

Topic: The Role and Challenges of Agribusiness in Today's Global Economy

11:30 - 1:30 pm
Cabot 7th Floor

The Challenges and Complexities of the Global Food Business

Monday, April 7, 2003

Dr. Ibrahim Warde
International Consultant and Author

Topic: The Financial War against Terrorism
5:30- 7:30 pm, Cabot 205
Co-sponsored by the Fares Center


Dr. Warde is an eminent international finance scholar who is formerly a professor at UC Berkeley. In addition to his frequent contributions to Le Monde Diplomatique, Dr. Warde is the author of Islamic Political Economy (forthcoming 2003), The Financial War on Terror: Origins, Methods and Consequence (forthcoming 2003), Islamic Finance in the Global Economy. Dr. Warde has also written extensively on international business policies, such as Foreign Banking in the US, Foreign Investment in the US Real Estate Sector, and "Telecommunications Market in France".

Fall 2002

Wednesday, September 11, 2002

Marcel Legrand, SVP
Monster.com

Summary of Going Global, Getting Naked

11:30 – 1:30 pm
Cabot 702/3
Topic: Going Global, Getting Naked

Wednesday, September 11, 2002

Ford Harding
Author - "Creating Rainmakers The Manager's Guide to Training
Professional to Attract New Clients" and "Rain Making : The Professional's
Guide to Attracting New Clients"

Workshop: How to Build Relationships and Generate Job Leads

6:30-9:30PM
Cabot 7th Floor

Sponsored by: The International Business and Finance Club  Office of Career Services, Hitachi Center for Technology & International Affairs, and the International Business Program.

Friday, September 20, 2002

Dr. Arturo Porzecanski
Managing Director and Head of Emerging Markets Economics & Debt Strategy
ABN AMRO Incorporated

Summary of From Bailouts to Bankruptcy

11:30 - 1:30 pm
Cabot 702/3

Topic: From Bailouts to Bankruptcy: Critique of the G7 Approach to
International Financial Crises

Wednesday, September 25, 2002

Luis Viada
Managing Director, Corporate Development
The McGraw-Hill Companies

Topic: Global Strategic Planning: Why companies do such a thing?

5:30 - 7:30 pm
Cabot 702/3

Thursday, October 17, 2002

Claudio Sonder, CEO/Chairman of the Board, Celanese AG

Topic: Restructuring The Chemical Industry

Summary of Restructuring The Chemical Industry

11:30 - 1:30 pm
Cabot 702/3

In conjunction with the Jack Galvin Leadership and International Management Lecture Series

Wednesday, November 13, 2002

Frank J. Linden, F'98,
Director, Country Risk, Corporate Risk Management
Merrill Lynch

Topic:  Sovereign Risk Assessment Post 9/11

3:00 - 5:00 pm
Cabot 702/3

Sponsored by the Global Business Club

Thursday, November 21, 2002

Michael C. Ruettgers, Executive Chairman,
EMC Corporation

Topic: Reflections on Building a Global Business and Protecting the World's Critical Information Infrastructures

11:30 - 12:30 pm Presentation, Cabot 205

12:30 - 1:30 PM Luncheon, Cabot 703

Sponsored by the Jack R. Galvin Leadership and International Management
Lecture Series which is supported through a grant from the Starr
Foundation, the corporate foundation of AIG.