Conference Agenda
| 8:00 - 8:30 a.m. |
Continental Breakfast Welcome - Peter
Cappelli, Director, Wharton Center for Human Resources and Michael Useem,
Director, Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management |
| 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. |
Leadership Development and the Senior Team:
Raymond Smith, Chairman, Rothschild North America, Inc. and former Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer, Bell Atlantic Corporation |
| 9:30 - 11:00 a.m. |
Increasing Team Performance at the Top: Jon
Katzenbach, McKinsey & Co. (author of The Wisdom of Teams, Teams at the Top,
and Real Change Leaders) |
| 11:00 - 11:10 a.m. |
Break |
| 11:10 - 12:30 |
Understanding Successful Executive Teams: Donald
Hambrick, Columbia Business School (co-author of Strategic Leadership), Edward
Zajac, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University (author of
numerous articles on leadership and governance), and Janet Spencer, Delta
Consulting Group (co-author of Executive Teams), assess how companies create and use their
senior management teams |
| 12:30 - 1:45 p.m. |
Lunch - Speaker: Ken Miller, Vice-Chair, CS
First Boston, Building Executive Teams After the Merger |
| 1:45 - 2:30 p.m. |
Getting the Inside Story: The
Media's Viewpoint business writers from Business Week and the New
York Times (invited) |
| 2:30 - 3:00 p.m. |
Planning Executive Succession:
Lessons from the Field - Cheryl Getty, Director of Executive
Resources Planning and Development at Lockheed Martin, shares conclusions from a recent
study of best practices in executive succession. |
| 3:00 - 3:15 p.m. |
Break |
| 3:15 - 4:15 p.m. |
Finding and Keeping Executive Teams -
Principals from three executive search firms describe what companies look for in
recruiting and developing top management teams: Joseph Haberman of A. T. Kearney
Executive Search, Howard Fischer of Howard Fischer Associates
International, and Kenneth Kring of Heidrick & Struggles |
| 4:15- 5:15 p.m. |
Creating Top Talent: Joseph Neubauer,
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, ARAMARK Corporation |
| 5:15 p.m. |
Cocktail Reception |
Program Participants
Adam Bryant is a Senior Writer at Newsweek magazine.
Peter Cappelli is Professor of Management at the Wharton School and Director of
the Wharton Center for Human Resources. His recent publications include Change at Work
and The New Deal at Work.
Howard Fischer is founder and chief executive of Howard Fischer Associates.
Cheryl Getty is Director of Executive Resources Planning and Development at
Lockheed Martin.
Joseph Haberman is Vice President of A.T. Kearney Executive Search.
Donald Hambrick is Samuel Bronfman Professor of Democratic Business Enterprise
at the Columbia Business School, co-author of Strategic Leadership : Top Executives
and Their Effect on Organizations, and co-editor of Navigating Change : How CEOs,
Top Teams, and Boards Steer Transformation.
Jon Katzenbach is a principal at McKinsey & Co. and author of The Wisdom
of Teams, Teams at the Top, and Real Change Leaders.
Kenneth Kring is Partner in Charge of the Philadelphia office of Heidrick &
Struggles.
Monica McGrath is Associate Director, Wharton Leadership Program and President,
Resources for Leadership, Inc.
Ken Miller is Vice Chair of CS First Boston.
Joseph Neubauer is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ARAMARK Corporation.
Howard Risher is a Senior Fellow at the Wharton Center of Human Resources.
Raymond Smith is Chairman of Rothschild North America, Inc., and the former
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Bell Atlantic Corporation.
Janet Spencer is a senior consultant at Delta Consulting Group and co-author of Executive
Teams.
Michael Useem is Professor of Management and Director of the Wharton Center for
Leadership and Change Management and author of The Leadership Moment: Nine True
Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All.
Edward Zajac is James F. Bere Professor of Organizational Behavior at the
Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, and author of numerous
articles on strategy, leadership, and governance.
Registration
To register, complete the enclosed form and return it to the Center for Human Resources
by May 10, 1999. Hotel reservations should be made directly with the Four Seasons Hotel by
April 22, 1999.
The conference is sponsored by the Wharton Center for Human Resources,
Peter Cappelli, Director, and the Wharton Center for Leadership and Change
Management, Michael Useem, Director. Copies of Peter Cappelli's new book, The
New Deal at Work: Managing the Market-Driven Workforce, and of Michael Useem's recent
book, The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their
Lessons for Us All, are provided all conference participants.
To Register: Complete the meeting registration form included with this
announcement. You may fax your registration to 215-898-5908, e-mail the information to
Rita Gorman (gorman@wharton.upenn.edu), or mail the form to:
Rita Gorman
Center for Human Resources, Vance Hall Rm. 309
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
3733 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6358
Registration Deadline: Please submit registration forms by May 10, 1999.
No refunds for cancellations can be made after May 10, 1999. Please submit hotel
registration forms directly to the Four Seasons Hotel by April 22, 1999.
Meeting Time: The conference will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. on May 13,
1999. A continental breakfast will be served from 8:00 a.m. until 8:30 a.m. and lunch from
12:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. A cocktail reception will follow the conference.
Meeting Location:
Four Seasons Hotel
One Logan Square
Philadelphia, PA 19103-6933
(215) 963-1500
For Further Information: For more information regarding the conference, please
contact conference coordinator Rita Gorman: tel. 215-898-5605; fax 215-898-5908; e-mail gorman@wharton.upenn.edu.
