Celebrating MIT Sloan’s 50th Anniversary
October 10-12, 2002

Thursday, October 10

Registration
11:00 AM - 4:30 PM
E-51, Tang Lobby

Registration
5:30 PM
Museum of Fine Arts

Welcome Reception
6:00 - 9:00 PM
Museum of Fine Arts
Hosts: Deans William Pounds and Richard Schmalensee

Friday, October 11

Registration
7:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Kresge Lobby

Continental Breakfast
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
Kresge Lobby

ACADEMIC CONVOCATION
Kresge Auditorium, MIT Campus
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Opening Remarks
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Charles Vest, President, MIT
Richard Schmalensee, Dean, MIT Sloan School of Management
Keynote Speaker: His Excellency Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations

Sessions:

The Next Technological Revolution: Predicting the Technical Future and its Impact on Firms, Organizations and Ourselves
Faculty leader: Rebecca Henderson
Bob Brown, Provost, MIT
Rodney Brooks, Director, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT
Susan Lindquist, Director, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Linda Griffith, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Deputy Director of the Biotechnology Process Engineering Center, MIT

Why Is Consumer Power Growing and How Should Companies Respond?
Faculty leader: Glen Urban
Vince Barabba, General Manager, Corporate Strategy and Knowledge Development, General Motors
Jeff Katz, Chairman, President, and CEO, Orbitz
Melanie W. Kittrell, Executive Director, e-Business Strategies and Solutions, Merck & Company, Inc.

LUNCHEON
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Kresge Oval

Luncheon Speaker: Alex d’Arbeloff, Chairman of the Corporation, MIT; Founder, Teradyne; Chairman, Empirix

Sessions:

Globalization and the Evolution of Corporate Citizenship
Faculty leader: Richard Locke

Beyond McGregor’s Theory Y: Human Capital and Knowledge-Based Work in the 21st Century Organization
Faculty leaders: Tom Kochan, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, and Wanda Orlikowski
Jim Goodnight, CEO, Chairman, Cofounder, and President, SAS Meg O’Leary, Senior Manager, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Peter Senge, Senior Lecturer, Organizational Change, Organizational Behavior

Registration
6:30 PM
Boston Park Plaza Hotel

Dean’s Gala
7:00 PM
Boston Park Plaza Hotel
Dress: Business attire
Speaker: Richard Wagoner, Jr., General Motors, Chairman and CEO

Saturday, October 12

Registration
7:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Marriott Ballroom Foyer

Continental Breakfast
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
Keynote Speaker (8:00 AM): Carly Fiorina, Chairman and CEO, Hewlett-Packard
Marriott Grand Ballroom

ACADEMIC CONVOCATION CONTINUES

Corporate Governance and Financial Management — What Changes in Europe and China?
Faculty leader: Stew Myers
Rolf Breuer, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Deutsche Bank
Victor Fung, Chairman, Li & Fung Group

ACADEMIC SEMINARS
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Classrooms in Tang

Leadership at Sloan
Deborah Ancona, Seley Distinguished Professor of Management, Behavioral Policy Science, MIT Sloan School of Management

Redesigning Work to Advance Gender Equity and Organizational Performance
Lotte Bailyn, T Wilson ?53 Professor of Management, Behavioral Policy Science, MIT Sloan School of Management

Air Safety: End of the Golden Era
Arnold Barnett, George Eastman Professor of Management, Management Science, MIT Sloan School of Management

The Delta Model: Discovering New Sources of Profitability in a Networked Economy
Arnoldo Hax, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Management, Behavioral Policy Science, MIT Sloan School of Management

Dealing with Disruption
Rebecca Henderson, Eastman Kodak LFM Professor of Management, Behavioral Policy Science, MIT Sloan School of Management

System Dynamics: Building a Better Business
Jim Hines, Senior Lecturer, System Dynamics Group, MIT Sloan School of Management

The Psychology of Trading
Andrew Lo, Harris & Harris Group Professor; Director Laboratory for Financial Engineering, MIT Sloan School of Management

Transforming Sloan Toward Technology and Entrepreneurship
Ed Roberts, David Sarnoff Professor of the Management of Technology, Behavioral Policy Science, MIT Sloan School of Management

The New World of Information
John Rockart, Senior Lecturer Emeritus; Former Director, Center for Information System Research, MIT Sloan School of Management

Ecological and Economic Sustainability
John Sterman, Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management

Identity Work: Occupations in Organizations
John Van Maanen, Erwin H. Schell Professor of Organizational Studies, Behavioral Policy Science, MIT Sloan School of Management

CANCELLED - A Global Approach to Corporate Reputation: A Practitioner?s Perspective on Addressing Global Challenges.
A special seminar presented by communications firm Fleishan-Hillard.

LUNCHEON
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Marriott Grand Ballroom
Speaker: Phil Condit, Boeing Chairman and CEO

ACADEMIC SEMINARS Repeated
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Classrooms in Tang