Registrations via the website are now closed, however walk-in registrations will be accepted at the door.
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
Roaring out of the Recession - Gulati dives into how to ReOrganize for Resilience
7:30 AM - 9:45 AM
The Standard Club320 S. Plymouth Ct. - 2nd Floor
Chicago, IL
"Great leaders know that how they fight a war often decides whether they will win the peace. Yet as CEOs continue to combat the myriad challenges thrown up by the Great Recession of 2007, … But CEOs, like generals in the heat of battle, are so busy tackling short-term priorities that the future is obscured by the fog of war." (opening paragraph of Gulati, et.al., "Roar out of Recession", Harvard Business Review, March 2010)
Join Ranjay Gulati to discover how to lift the fog of corporate war and position your firm and your clients to roar out of this recession. Gulati will show how resilient organizations cut through internal barriers that impede action, build bridges between warring divisions, and transform former competitors into collaborators.
He has captured these and other insights in "ReOrganize for Resilience" (published Jan 2010) which you receive with this registration
Based on more than a decade of research in a variety of industries, and filled with examples
from companies including Cisco Systems, La Farge, Starbucks, Best Buy, and Jones Lang LaSalle, Gulati explores the five levers of resilience:
Coordination: Connect, eradicate, or restructure silos to enable swift responses.
Cooperation: Foster a culture that aligns all employees around the shared goals of customer solutions.
Clout: Redistribute power to bridge builders and customer champions.
Capability: Develop employees skills at tackling changing customer needs.
Connection: Blend partners offerings with yours to provide unique customer solutions.
He has been cited as authoritative and practical, and this presentation plus Reorganize for Resilience helps you walk the walk, not just talk the talk, of customer-centricity jump-starting a virtuous cycle of profits, growth, and competitive advantage.
Professor Gulati is the past-President of the Business Policy and Strategy Division at the Academy of Management and an elected fellow of the Strategic Management Society. He was ranked as one of the top ten most cited scholars in Economics and Business over a decade by ISI-Incite. The Economist Intelligence Unit has listed him as among the top handful of business school scholars whose work is most relevant to management practice. He has been a Harvard MacArthur Fellow and a Sloan Foundation Fellow. His research has been published in leading journals such as American Journal of Sociology, Strategic Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, and Organization Science. He has also written for the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, strategy+business, and the Financial Times. Professor Gulati sits on the editorial board of several leading journals including Administrative Science Quarterly and Strategic Management Journal. He was a co-editor of a special issue of the Strategic Management Journal on Alliances and Strategic Networks in 2000 and will be co-editing another special issue on Organizational Architecture in 2010.
Professor Gulati teaches courses in Harvard Business School’s MBA and Executive Education programs. He has directed several executive programs on such topics as Building and Leading Customer Centric Organizations, Managing Customer Relationships, Managing Strategic Alliances, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Sustaining Competitive Advantage in a Network Economy. He is also active in custom executive education. He has received a number of awards for his teaching including the Best Professor Award for his teaching in the MBA and executive MBA programs at the Kellogg School where he was on the faculty prior to coming to Harvard.
Professor Gulati advises and speaks to corporations large and small around the globe. Some of his speaking and consulting clients include: GE, SAP, Bank of China, Sanofi Aventis, Novartis, Caterpillar, Allergan, Metlife, Target, Honda, Qualcomm, Aetna, Future Brands, Ford, Seyfarth Shaw, SAP, Sanofi-Aventis, Merck, LaFarge, McGraw-Hill, Guidant Corporation, Rockwell Collins, Motorola, Lafarge, AIG, Merck, Peninsula Group, General Mills, Abbott Laboratories, Baxter, Sun Microsystems, Credit Suisse, and Microsoft. He has served on the advisory boards of several startup companies and has appeared as an expert witness in business litigations. He is a frequent guest on CNBC and has been a panelist on several of their series on topics that include: the Business of Innovation, Collaboration, and Leadership Vision. He has also been interviewed by such media as Businessweek, the Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune. ?Professor Gulati holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University, a Master's Degree in Management from M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management, and two Bachelor's Degrees, in Computer Science and Economics, from Washington State University and St. Stephens College, New Delhi, respectively.
Registrations via the website are now closed, however walk-in registrations will be accepted at the door.