Conference Agenda

8:00 - 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast

8:30 - 9:15 a.m. Building the New Unisys: Leadership Challenges Facing a New CEO, Lawrence A. Weinbach, Unisys Corp. Lawrence A. Weinbach is Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Unisys Corporation, and is former chief executive of Andersen Worldwide.

9:15 - 9:45 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks Peter Cappelli, Chairman, Management Department, The Wharton School, Director, Center for Human Resources, The Wharton School

9:45 - 10:45 a.m. What Companies Are Doing to Recruit and Develop Top Talent, Alexander Kleinman and Derek van Bever, The Corporate Leadership Council, The Advisory Board. The Corporate Leadership Council recently completed a study of company practices for accelerating the recruitment, development, and retention of individuals with high potential for senior leadership. Alexander Kleinman and Derek van Bever present their study's conclusions with illustrations of best practices from a range of major corporations.

10:45 - 11:00 a.m. Break

11:00 a.m.- noon Leadership Competencies that Produce Winning Companies, Calhoun Wick, Wick & Co. Calhoun Wick reports on groundbreaking research with 23 companies ranging from Hewlett Packard and Boeing to General Electric, Motorola, Nabisco, and Bell Atlantic on what differentiates "learning speeds" of organizations and then shows the competencies leaders use to accelerate their firm's learning speed.

Noon - 1:35 p.m. Lunch

Winning the War for Talent, Elizabeth Chambers, McKinsey & Company and Jude Rich, Sibson & Company. Elizabeth Chambers and Jude Rich will present highlights of an eight-month study of how 80 high performing companies manage the top executive group. The study involved in-depth interviews with key corporate leaders and the completion of a survey questionnaire by over 6,000 executives.

2:30 – 3:15 p.m. Managing a Corporation's Intellectual Capital: Executive Development as a Competitive Advantage, Sandra J. Price, Sprint Corporation. Sandy Price discusses the role of executive succession planning and executive development in building a strong leadership foundation for the corporation.

3:15 - 3:30 p.m. Break

3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Searching for Leadership Talent on the Outside, Howard Fischer, Howard Fischer Associates International Drawing on two decades of experience in recruiting company leaders, Howard Fischer addresses several questions: Once a company decides to consider outside candidates for leadership positions, what factors must be considered? How should an executive search firm be evaluated and used? What steps should be taken -- and pitfalls avoided -- to effectively recruit an outside leader?

4:30 - 5:00 p.m. Leadership Lessons for Winning Companies, Michael Useem, Center for Leadership and Change Management and Peter Cappelli, Center for Human Resources

Michael Useem and Peter Cappelli draw out the lessons of the conference for leadership recruitment and development, both for companies and those who work for them. They also identify what business schools and universities can do to meet the call for more leadership development.

5:00 p.m. Cocktails

Program Participants

Peter Cappelli is Chairman of the Management Department at The Wharton School and Director of the Center for Human Resources. His recent publications include Change at Work, published by Oxford University Press.

Elizabeth Chambers is a principal in McKinsey's New York Office. She is co-leader of the firm?s Organization Practice, with a strong focus on human resource issues. She was a leader of the War for Talent research study.

Howard Fischer is founder and chief executive of Howard Fischer Associates International, an executive search firm. He has been involved in the recruitment and placement of senior-level leaders at companies throughout the U.S. and abroad for more than twenty years.

Rakesh Khurana is a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Business School and is joining the faculty of MIT's Sloan School of Management in the fall. He has recently completed studies on company directors, CEO turnover, and financial performance.

Alexander Kleinman and Derek van Bever are with the Corporate Leadership Council of the Advisory Board Company. The Corporate Leadership Council serves senior human resources executives at 700 companies, and it has recently completed a study of company practices for building senior leadership.

Jude Rich is Chairman of Sibson & Co. with extensive experience in human resources and organization effectiveness. He is widely recognized as one of the leading authorities in compensation. Mr. Rich and Sibson Co. partnered with McKinsey in completing The War for Talent.

Sandra J. Price is Director of Executive Development for Sprint Corporation.

Michael Useem is Professor of Management and Director of the Center for Leadership and Change Management at the Wharton School, and author of a book to be published in September, The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All (Times Books/Random House).

Lawrence A. Weinbach is Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Unisys Corporation, and is the former chief executive of Andersen Worldwide.

Calhoun Wick is President of Wick and Company, a research and consulting firm founded in 1980 that develops products to help companies diagnose and facilitate organizational learning for improved business results. His book on how organizations learn, The Learning Edge: How Smart Managers and Smart Companies Stay Ahead (McGraw-Hill 1993) is now available in paperback.

The mission of the Wharton Center for Human Resources is to foster research into the strategic role of human resource management in such areas as employment, labor relations, public policy, and training and education of the workforce. The Center supports and enhances the interaction between academics and practitioners through multidisciplinary research, regular meetings, and frequent information bulletins tailored to the interests of each of the Center's subscribing groups.