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Co-founder & Executive Chair
Seventh Generation
November 17, 2009
Wong Auditorium, 12 noon
This event is open to the MIT Community; Co-Sponsored with the Sustainability@Sloan Speaker Series.
Seventh Generation is quickly becoming the world's most trusted brand of safe and environmentally-responsible products for the home. As Chief Inspired Protagonist, Co-founder, and Executive Chairperson of Seventh Generation, Jeffrey is a well-respected leader in the socially and environmentally responsible communities. He has led Seventh Generation from its humble beginnings to its current position as the leading and fastest-growing brand of natural products for the home, and the leading authority on issues related to making a positive difference in the health of the planet and its inhabitants through everyday choices.
Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, Infosys Technologies, Ltd.
October 27, 2009
Wong Auditorium, 12 noon
This event is open to the MIT Community
What started as a group of entrepreneurial software professionals twenty-eight years ago is today a global leader in information technology and consulting services. Infosys Technologies Limited has been recognized by many as one of the world’s most innovative companies. S.D. Shibulal is one of the co-founders and member of the Board of Directors and has served as the company’s Chief Operating Office since April 2007. Join us for Shibulal’s reflections on his extraordinary journey with Infosys and discussion around leading during times of crisis.
Former Chairman and CEO
Citizens Financial Group, Inc.
In conversation with:
Simon Johnson
Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship
Professor of Global Economics and Management
MIT Sloan School of Management
September 24, 2009
Wong Auditorium, 12 noon
This event is open to the MIT Community
On September 24, 2009, two of the nation’s leading financial experts will discuss their perspectives about the current state of the economy, where it is headed, and what it means for the industry and financial job market.
About the speakers:
Larry Fish is the Former Chairman and CEO of Citizens Financial Group, Inc., a multi-state commercial bank holding company headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island. Under Fish's leadership, CFG has grown 30-fold since he joined the company in 1992. It is one of the 10 largest commercial bank holding companies in the United States in total assets and deposits. Fish has over 35 years of experience in the financial industry and has served as a leader on several federal and international financial advisory boards including the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and the Federal Advisory Council.
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Simon Johnson is the Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan School of Management. He is also a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C., a co-founder of BaselineScenario.com, a widely cited website on the global economy, and is a member of the Congressional Budget Office's Panel of Economic Advisers. Mr. Johnson appears regularly on NPR's Planet Money podcast in the Economist House Calls feature, is a weekly contributor to NYT.com's Economix, and has a video blog feature on The New Republic's website. He is co-director of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) project on Africa and President of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies. From March 2007 through the end of August 2008, Professor Johnson was the International Monetary Fund's Economic Counselor (chief economist) and Director of its research department. At the IMF, Professor Johnson led the global economic outlook team, helped formulate innovative responses to worldwide financial turmoil, and was among the earliest to propose new forms of engagement for sovereign wealth funds.
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Chair, Mercy Corps
Chairman and Co-Founder
Bright Horizons Family Solutions
May 7, 2009
Wong Auditorium, 12 noon
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Linda Mason is Chair of Mercy Corps, a $300 million international relief and development agency, operating in 37 countries serving 17 million people, with major programs in some of the most difficult environments in the world including Iraq, Afghanistan, Darfur, Somalia, and North Korea, among others. Ms. Mason is engaged with the strategy and development of the agency, serves a representational role abroad with foreign governments and at home, and develops support, visibility, and funding.
As chairman and co-founder, Ms. Mason has spent a large part of her career creating and building Bright Horizons Family Solutions, now a $1.3 billion education company. As the largest world-wide provider of worksite child care and early education, Bright Horizons operates more than 650 high quality child development centers for employers in 40 states and Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Canada. Clients include the US General Services Administration, United Nations, European Commission, Time Warner, Cisco Systems, IBM, Yale University, MIT, Universal Studios, and Paramount Pictures, among others. Bright Horizons also operates eight elementary schools, private and charter. The company employs 19,000 people and serves more than 80,000 families. Bright Horizons was selected by Fortune magazine in January 2009 for the 10th time as one of the “100 Best Companies to Work For in America”.
Ms. Mason also co-founded Horizons for Homeless Children, a Boston-based organization that serves the needs of homeless children throughout New England. HHC has trained over 9,500 volunteers to work in 150 playspaces established by HHC in homeless shelters. In addition, HHC operates 3 full-service childcare centers for homeless children, also providing assistance to mothers to reach self-sufficiency. HHC is a national model for the care and early education of homeless children.
Chairman of the Board, President, CEO
Millipore Corporation
April 9, 2009
Wong Auditorium, 12 noon
This event is open to the MIT Community
Martin D. Madaus is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Millipore Corporation. Millipore, headquartered in Billerica, MA, is a global Life Science Tools company with revenues of approximately $1.5 billion. The company focuses on two business segments: biopharmaceutical manufacturing and life science research and analytical laboratories. The Bioprocess Division offers solutions that enable development and manufacturing of biologics. The Bioscience Division provides high performance products and application insights that improve laboratory productivity.
Chief Operating Officer
Procter & Gamble
March 3, 2009
Wong Auditorium, 12 noon
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As Chief Operating Officer of The Procter & Gamble Company, Bob McDonald is focused on leveraging the scale of Procter & Gamble's $76.5-billion global business and building the organization's capabilities to generate sustainable value for consumers, customers and investors. He oversees all global operations and corporate functions including on-the-ground operations in more than 80 countries. Reporting to Mr. McDonald are the executive officers for Global Operations, Human Resources, R&D, Product Supply, External Relations, Information Technology, Marketing, Strategic Planning, and Customer Business Development.
Chairman, Asia Pacific Region,
Bain & Company
February 18, 2009
Wong Auditorium, 12 noon
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As chairman of the Asia Pacific region and a member of the global operating committee of Bain & Company, Maceda specializes in working with large corporate transformations involving strategy, reengineering, cost reduction, operational improvement, and organizational effectiveness. Join us as Maceda shares his perspective on how companies can deal with uncertainty and succeed regionally and globally in challenging economic times.
President & CEO
W.L. Gore & Associates
December 9, 2008
Wong Auditorium, 12 noon
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Terri Kelly is president and CEO of W.L. Gore & Associates, a multi-billion dollar enterprise that employs more than 8,000 associates in 45 plants around the world. Gore specializes in fluoropolymer-based materials that are utilized in a wide array of high-value products, including GORE-TEX® fabric, medical devices, filtration and venting products and many other advanced technology solutions. Gore is as well known for its unique management philosophy and culture, as for its multitude of unique products.
Kelly joined Gore as a process engineer in 1983 after graduating summa cum laude from the University of Delaware with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering. In her early years with the company, she gained experience as a product specialist with the military fabrics business — a unit she eventually led — helping it grow from a small start-up venture into a leading producer of protective products for the global armed forces.
Chairman & President
BP America
October 28, 2008
Bob Malone was named chairman and president of BP America Inc. effective July 1, 2006. He is BP's chief representative in the United States. He is based in Houston, Texas where BP business units are involved in oil and natural gas exploration and production, refining, chemicals, supply and trading, pipeline operations, shipping and alternative energy. In the US, BP owns over $40 billion in fixed assets and employs some 37,000 people. The company is the nation's largest producer of oil and natural gas and the second largest gasoline retailer.
Malone was raised in the Northeast Texas town of Daingerfield. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Metallurgical Engineering from the University of Texas at El Paso, and was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received a Master of Science in Management.
Chairman & CEO, Time
October 15, 2008
Ann Moore was appointed chairman and chief executive officer of Time Inc. in July 2002. In this position, Moore oversees the world's leading magazine company. Time Inc. publishes approximately 125 magazines, which are read nearly 250 million times worldwide on a monthly basis, and account for approximately 20 percent of total advertising revenues of U.S. consumer magazines.
Before assuming her current position, Moore served as executive vice president of Time Inc. since June 2001, responsible for the business and development operations for several of the most popular consumer magazines in publishing — Time, People, In Style, People en Español, and Real Simple. In addition, she managed the consumer marketing division of Time Inc.
Chairman and CEO, Aetna
October 9, 2008
Ronald A. Williams is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Aetna Inc., a leading diversified health care benefits company, which had revenue of approximately $27.6 billion in 2007. Under his leadership, Aetna has sought to make a positive impact on health care in America by serving as a catalyst for change, focusing the industry, public policy leaders, physicians and employers on issues aimed at increasing access and affordability.
Joining Aetna in 2001, Mr. Williams has focused on creating innovation in the industry, especially through information technology, and bringing new levels of transparency to the health care system. In September 2001, Aetna became the first national insurer to offer a consumer-directed health plan. In August 2005, Aetna's launch of a new online consumer tool to view physician-specific price information was widely recognized as the beginning of a new era of transparency in the health care marketplace. More recently, Aetna led the effort to develop industry standards for electronic personal health records, which provide a new way for consumers to be more engaged in their health care.
Retired Chairman and CEO, IBM
March 13, 2008
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. was chairman of the board of IBM Corporation from April 1993 until his retirement in December 2002. He served as chief executive officer of IBM from 1993 until March 2002 and is credited for transforming the culture at IBM and the historic turnaround that saved the company from ruin in the 1990's.
In January 2003 he assumed the position of chairman of The Carlyle Group, a global private equity firm located in Washington, DC.
Prior to joining IBM, Mr. Gerstner served for four years as chairman and chief executive officer of RJR Nabisco, Inc. This was preceded by an 11-year career at American Express Company, where he was president of the parent company and chairman and CEO of its largest subsidiary, American Express Travel Related Services Company. Prior to that, Mr. Gerstner was a director of the management consulting firm of McKinsey & Co., Inc., which he joined in 1965.
Mr. Gerstner is also the author of Who Says Elephants Can't Dance, the best-selling account of IBM's transformation; and he is the co-author of the book Reinventing Education: Entrepreneurship in America's Public Schools (Dutton 1994).
Executive Chairman, Grupo Ferrovial, S.A.
February 28, 2008
A leader in the European infrastructure business, Rafael del Pino currently leads Ferrovial, one of Spain's largest engineering and construction firms with a workforce of 100,000. Ferrovial is involved in construction projects throughout the world, including the designing, financing, building, operating and maintaining of toll roads running in the U.S. and Canada and the Chicago Skyway Bridge. In June 2006, Ferrovial acquired BAA, the company that owns London's Heathrow airport.
Rafael del Pino has an undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica in Madrid and obtained an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management. He is currently Executive Chairman of Ferrovial.
Executive Vice President, DuPont
February 13, 2008
Ellen J. Kullman is executive vice president — DuPont Safety & Protection; DuPont Coatings & Color Technologies; Marketing & Sales; Safety and Sustainability; Pharmaceuticals; and Risk Management and a member of the company's Office of the Chief Executive.
Ellen is a member of the board of directors of General Motors Corporation. She is on the Board of Trustees at Tufts University, serves on the board of overseers at Tufts University School of Engineering. She is also on the Board of Trustees, National Safety Council. For the past three years, Fortune magazine has named Ellen to its 50 Most Powerful Women in Business List. She is also the winner of the prestigious 2004 Aiming High Award and a member of the Committee of 200.
Co-Founder, Partners in Health
Professor, Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School
Chief, Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities, Brigham and Women's Hospital
November 19, 2007
Dr. Jim Yong Kim has been recognized as a global leader and distinguished professional, including being awarded a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship in 2003; being named one of America's 25 best leaders by US News & World Report in 2005; and being named as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2006. He was a contributing editor to the 2003 and 2004 World Health Report, and his edited volume Dying for Growth: Global Inequity and the Health of the Poor analyzes the effects of economic and political change on health outcomes in developing countries.
Dr. Kim has 20 years of experience in improving health in developing countries. He is a founding trustee and the former executive director of Partners In Health, a not-for-profit organization that supports a range of health programs in poor communities in Haiti, Peru, Russia, Rwanda, Lesotho, and the United States.
Former President & CEO, NAACP
October 17, 2007
After a 35 year career in the telecommunications industry, Bruce S. Gordon retired in December 2003. In his final role, Bruce was president — Retail Markets Group for Verizon Communications, responsible for the company's consumer and small business customers. He also directed corporate advertising and brand management. Gordon managed a 35,000 person work force and was accountable for $23B in revenue. On August 1, 2005, Gordon became the President & CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He served for 19 months before resigning in March 2007.
Group Chief Executive Officer, UBS AG
April 24, 2007
Peter Wuffli joined Swiss Bank Corporation in 1994 as Chief Financial Officer and continued in this role after the merger with Union Bank of Switzerland in 1998 for the combined group. In 1999 he assumed the responsibility for UBS Asset Management. He was chairman and chief executive officer of this business group until the end of 2001, when he took over his present position. Prior to joining the bank, he was a partner at McKinsey & Company.
Wuffli holds a PhD from the University of St. Gall. He sits on the boards of The Institute of International Finance Inc., IMD the International Institute for Management Development (vice chairman), the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce (vice chairman), and the Zurich Opera House.
Former CEO, General Electric
April 12, 2007
Jack Welch began his career with the General Electric Company in 1960 and in 1981 became the company’s eighth Chairman & CEO. In his 20 years as CEO of General Electric, he transformed the company from a bureaucratic behemoth to a dynamic and revered powerhouse. During his tenure, GE market value grew from $13 billion to $400 billion. In the process, Welch’s management innovations have made him the most influential CEO of his era.
Upon his retirement from GE in 2001, Mr. Welch wrote his No. 1 New York Times and international best-selling autobiography, JACK: Straight From The Gut. He has also spent much of his time traveling around the world, speaking to people at every level of an organization, answering their questions on dozens of wide-ranging topics. These sessions were the inspiration for his new best-selling book, Winning.
Welch is currently the head of Jack Welch, LLC, where he serves as an advisor to a small group of Fortune 500 business CEOs and speaks to business people and students around the world. During the fall of 2006, he taught a widely popular course at MIT Sloan.
Chairman and CEO, United Technologies Corporation
February 22, 2007
George David is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of United Technologies Corporation. He was elected UTC's President in 1992 and Chief Executive Officer in 1994. He joined UTC’s Otis Elevator subsidiary in 1975 and became its President in 1986.
He received his B.A. from Harvard and M.B.A. from the University of Virginia. He is a board member of Citigroup and a member of The Business Council and the Business Roundtable, and Vice Chairman of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He has chaired the boards of the Graduate Business School at the University of Virginia, the National Minority Supplier Development Council, the U.S.-ASEAN Business Council, the Trans-Atlantic Business Dialogue and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Fine Arts.
He was awarded in 1999 the Order of Friendship from the Russian Federation for contributions to that nation’s economy and especially its aerospace industry. In 2002, France named him to its Legion of Honor.
President and Co-CEO, Research in Motion
February 8, 2007
Mike Lazaridis is known in the global wireless community as a visionary, innovator, and engineer of extraordinary talent. He traces his passion for his work to his hometown of Windsor, Ontario, where his love of science and fascination with electronics were nurtured in supportive family and school environments. As president and Co-CEO of Research In Motion (RIM), a company Lazaridis founded while a student at the University of Waterloo, he is responsible for product strategy, research and development, product development, and manufacturing.
Lazaridis is also a leader in his community and a passionate advocate for education and scientific research. He is a member of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Ontario Research and Innovation Council, and a Governor of the Information Technology Association of Canada. Lazaridis is also a long-standing member of the Board of Governors of the University of Waterloo and, in May 2003, was installed as its Chancellor.
Chairman and CEO, Xerox
November 9, 2006
Anne Mulcahy, a 30-year veteran of Xerox, has led the company through a massive transformation — reinventing Xerox into an innovative technology and services enterprise that helps businesses deploy smarter document management strategies and find better ways to work.
The combination of innovative technology and value-added services has delivered strong results, prompting MONEY Magazine to dub Xerox “the great turnaround story of the post-crash era — an IBM for the 2000s.” Building on Xerox’s rich heritage of social responsibility, Mulcahy ensures that the company’s business decisions and actions are aligned with a clear set of corporate values.
CEO of Embarq Corporation
November 2, 2006
Dan Hesse is the chairman and CEO of Embarq Corporation, the largest “independent” local exchange carrier in the U.S. This new Fortune 500, NYSE-listed company has over $6 billion in revenues, 20,000 employees, and will operate in 18 states, offering voice, high speed Internet, wireless, and entertainment services to over 7 million customers.
Previously, Hesse spent 23 years at AT&T. From 1997 to 2000, he served as the president and chief executive officer of AT&T Wireless Services, at the time the United States’ largest wireless operator with over 12 million customers, 20,000 employees, and $10 billion in revenues. He also served as an executive vice president of AT&T.
Hesse has been named Wireless Industry “Person of the Year” by RCR magazine and “Executive of the Year” by Wireless Business and Technology magazine. He is also a recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.
Former President and CEO, Hewlett-Packard
October 18, 2006
Carly Fiorina was president and CEO of Hewlett-Packard from 1999 to 2005, and chairman from 2000 to 2005. Fiorina successfully led HP’s controversial merger with Compaq Computer Corp. Before joining HP, she spent nearly twenty years at AT&T and Lucent Technologies, where she held a number of senior leadership positions.
Fiorina has previously served on the boards of Cisco Systems, Kellogg Company, and Merck & Company. She currently serves on the boards of CyberTrust (specializing in cybersecurity), Revolution Healthcare Group, MIT Corporation Board of Trustees, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (TSMC).
CEO of GM
October 11, 2006
Rick Wagoner was elected GM chairman and chief executive officer on May 1, 2003. He had been president and chief executive officer since June 2000. Wagoner was elected president and chief operating officer in 1998 and had been executive vice president of GM and president of North American Operations since 1994. He served as executive vice president and chief financial officer from 1992 to 1994 and also had responsibility for worldwide purchasing from 1993 to 1994.
Wagoner was president and managing director of General Motors do Brasil (GMB) in 1991 and 1992. Prior to that, he was vice president in charge of finance for General Motors Europe based in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1989 and 1990.
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Chairman and CEO, Novartis
September 13, 2006
In 2004 readers of the Financial Times chose Daniel Vasella as the most influential European businessman of the previous quarter century. The dynamic leader of Novartis continues to influence pharmaceutical and consumer health business and research. Appointed CEO in 1996 and chairman in 1999, Vasella has strengthened the company’s research capabilities, creating the Novartis Institute for BioMedical Research and moving its research headquarters to Cambridge, Mass., a hub of biotech activity. He has also spearheaded efforts to develop therapeutics based on the mapping of the human genome and worked to improve access to medicines.
CEO, BP
May 2, 2006
Lord John Browne began at BP in 1966 as a university apprentice. In the succeeding 30 years, he has risen to CEO, helped transform BP into a dynamic global energy company, and attained knighthood in Great Britain. And in a bold move for the CEO of an energy company, he has been instrumental in bringing into focus “the twin challenges of dependence [on oil] and of the environmental consequences of carbon emissions.”
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CEO, IDEO
March 16, 2006
Timothy Brown spends his time innovating and fostering innovation. His company, IDEO, designs innovative products, services, environments, and digital experiences. It also provides strategic services to help direct an innovation effort or catalyze creativity within an organization. Among the company’s innovations are an insulin pen for Eli Lilly, the design for the Palm V, a conceptual office cube for Dilbert comic strip creator Scott Adams, and a series of conceptual business cards that explore and express possible future value systems.
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CEO, Carlson Companies
March 9, 2006
A regular on lists of the most powerful women in business, Marilyn Carlson Nelson's firm, Carlson Companies, is the parent corporation of a global group of integrated companies specializing in business and leisure travel, hotel, restaurant, cruise, and marketing services. Among the long list of companies are Radisson Hotels & Resorts, Park Plaza Hotels & Resorts, Fly4less.com, and T.G.I. Friday’s.
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President & CFO, PepsiCo, Inc.
February 28, 2006
As the highest–ranking Indian–born woman in corporate America, Indra Nooyi has pushed PepsiCo to take bold risks, with moves that include acquiring Tropicana in 1998 and helping to start the company’s fast–food chains in 1997. She is responsible for all of PepsiCo’s corporate functions, including finance, strategy, business process optimization, corporate platforms and innovation, procurement, investor relations, and information technology.
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President, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
November 3, 2005
Hailed as the “Turnaround King” of the arts world, MIT Sloan alumnus Michael Kaiser (SM ’77) has made a career out of revitalizing troubled arts organizations at a time when funding for the arts has been scarce. In a Dean's Innovative Leader Series event, “Reinventing the Kennedy Center,” Kaiser discussed his innovative work with MIT Sloan Dean Emeritus William F. Pounds.
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Chairman and CEO, X PRIZE Foundation
October 27, 2005
Dr. Peter Diamandis sees competitive prizes, such as his revolutionary $10 million Ansari X PRIZE, catapulting society to frontiers in space and other technologies. The visionary entrepreneur and space evangelist spoke to the MIT Sloan community during SIP, the Sloan Innovation Period.
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Chief Executive Office, Microsoft
October 21, 2005
One of the first employees that Bill Gates hired in 1980, Steve Ballmer helped grow Microsoft from a college startup to the $40 billion world leader in personal and business software. One of the true pioneers of the software industry, he spoke about “Innovation with Impact” in a dynamic presentation.
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Chairman, President & CEO, Citizens Financial Group
October 19, 2005
Citizens Bank has grown 25–fold since Fish joined the company in 1992 and is now the eighth largest commercial bank holding company in the United States. Citizens Financial Group has approximately 27,000 employees, with retail and commercial banking operations in 13 states and non–branch offices in more than 30 states. He shared work and life lessons with the MIT Sloan community.
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President, Semco
September 22, 2005
Ricardo Semler, president of Semco, the Brazilian machinery manufacturer and service provider, is internationally renowned as the creator of the world’s most unusual workplace. His management philosophy of empowering employees and looking at corporate structures in new ways is a serious challenge to the ingrained model of the corporate pyramid. Semler shared with the MIT Sloan community the method behind his unique brand of management.
Former Chairman and CEO, GE
April 12, 2005
"Err on the side of bold," was Jack Welch's advice to MIT Sloan students in a candid conversation, which was moderated by John C Head III Dean Richard Schmalensee and MIT Chairman Alex D’Arbeloff. The straight-talking Welch did not disappoint the throng of students in attendance, offering frank pronouncements on what it takes to be an effective leader.
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CFO, Citigroup
March 16, 2005
Named by Forbes as the seventh most powerful woman in business, Sallie Krawcheck represents a model for success for MIT Sloan students intent on making their own mark. A former equity analyst, she's earned the moniker “Mrs. Clean” for being frank and ethical in her speedy rise to prominence.
President, General Motors North American
March 9, 2005
Gary Cowger joined General Motors in 1965 as a college co-op student. He rose steadily among the ranks, from plant worker, to plant manager, to heading international business initiatives, to his appointment in 2001 as president of General Motors North America.
Chairman of the Board, Bain & Co.
December 8, 2004
Ranked by Forbes as among the most powerful women in business, Israeli–born Orit Gadiesh has led Bain since 1993. In her tenure, Bain has vastly expanded its team and provided trusted consulting to corporate leaders across the globe.
Chairman, NYSE
November 15, 2004
MIT Sloan alumnus John Reed, SM ’65, was the first speaker as part the Dean’s Innovative Leader Series. Former chairman and co-CEO of Citigroup and former chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, he was Sloan Leader in Residence in February 2002. His deep ties to MIT Sloan and his record of achievement in business made him an apt speaker to impart lessons on innovation and global business to students.
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