Leading in a Dynamic and Unpredictable World: Event Schedule

CONFERENCE AGENDA

7:30 – 8:00 a.m.       Continental Breakfast  

8:00 – 8:15 a.m.       Welcome: Peter Cappelli, Director, Wharton Center for Human  Resources, and Michael Useem, Director, Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management 

8:15 – 9:10 a.m.       Leading in Uncertain Times – What’s Your
                                     Story?

Peter Guber, Chairman and CEO, Mandalay Entertainment     

9:10 – 10:05 a.m.     Do You Have to Keep Dancing as Long as the Music is Playing?  A Journalist's Reflection on the Failure of Leadership and the Financial Crisis

Steven Pearlstein, Columnist for The Washington Post 

10:05 – 10:20 a.m.   Break – Huntsman Hall Forum 

10:20 – 11:15 a.m.   Leading for Growth in a Time of Change

Ellen Kullman, President and CEO, DuPont 

11:15 – 12:10 p.m.   Breaking Our Change Addiction

Fiona MacLeod, President, BP Convenience Retail, USA & Latin America 

12:10 – 12:50 p.m.   Lunch – Huntsman Hall Forum (sponsored by Wharton Executive Education’s Advanced Management Programs)

12:50 – 1:45 p.m.     The Role of Leadership in Today’s Economy

Frank Russomanno, President and CEO,    
                
  Imation 

1:45 – 2:40 p.m.       The Need for Inclusive Leadership in Turbulent Times

Beth Brooke, Global Vice Chair, Ernst & Young
 

2:40 – 2:55 p.m.        Break – Huntsman Hall Forum 

2:55 – 3:50 p.m.        The India Way: How India’s Top Business
                                     Leaders Are Revolutionizing Management

Harbir Singh, Vice Dean, Global Initiatives, and
          Mack Professor of Management, The Wharton
          School
                 

3:50 – 4:45 p.m.      Ten Rules to Judge a President

Richard Norton Smith, Historian and Author, and Scholar-in-Residence, George Mason University  

4:45 – 5:00 p.m.        Summing UpPeter Cappelli and Michael
                                    Useem
 

5:00 – 6:00 p.m.       Reception - Huntsman Hall Forum






13th Annual Wharton Leadership Conference


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