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Mr.
John Abrahamson
John Abrahamson John Abrahamson is President and
CEO, Enskilda Securities in Stockholm, Sweden. Prior to this
and from 2001 until 2004, he was the Regional
Head of SEB (Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken), based in Malmö. He also served SEB between 1984 and 2000, latest as
Director, Global Head of Corporate Finance and Executive Vice
President for Enskilda Securities. Enskilda Securities is the
Investment Banking arm of SEB. Earlier Mr. Abrahamson held various
positions in Stockholm and London in international area management,
project and export finance, trade finance, trading, debt capital
markets and corporate finance. In 2000 and 2001 Mr. Abrahamson
worked independently on assignments out of his own company Sörmland
Skåne Handels AB. He also serves on the Boards of SEB AG in Germany
and SEB A/S in Denmark, as well as Eniro AB, Wireless Maingate AB
and the Institute for Economic Research in Lund. From 1982-84, he
served with Arthur Andersen & Co. in Stockholm. Mr. Abrahamson
holds a Degree in Business Administration from Lund University.
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Mr.
Philip E. Barta
Phil Barta is a member of the faculty at The
International Forum. Prior to joining The International Forum in
2001, Mr. Barta was William Davidson Institute’s Director for
Management Development Activities. The Davidson Institute is a
non-profit educational institute at the University of Michigan
Business School dedicated to developing and disseminating expertise
on issues affecting corporations in transition and emerging
economies. Mr. Barta was responsible for the Davidson Institute’s
corporate, government, and NGO relationships and management
development initiatives. During his time at the Davidson Institute,
Mr. Barta was involved in The International Forum as a guest
resource and faculty member at the European Forum as well as Forums
in the Czech Republic and Poland. Mr. Barta has extensive experience
working in emerging markets, especially Central and Eastern Europe.
Prior to joining the Davidson Institute, Mr. Barta managed a
privately funded technical assistance project focused on economic
and public policy issues in the Czech Republic and Slovakia for The
Foundation for a Civil Society. Mr. Barta also taught business
English in Kosice, East Slovakia and studied at the University of
Zagreb, (then) Yugoslavia. He has written on privatization and
political economy in Central and Eastern Europe and has co-authored
a case study on the restructuring of a truck manufacturer in the
Czech Republic. Mr. Barta holds a BA in government from Beloit
College, Beloit, Wisconsin and an MA in Russian and East European
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Dr.
Kent Calder
Kent Calder is the former Special Adviser to the US
Ambassador to Japan, Thomas S. Foley. Dr. Calder is also Director of
the Program on US-Japanese Relations at Princeton University and
Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in
Washington, DC. He has previously been a lecturer on Government at
Harvard University and was the first executive director of Harvard’s
US-Japan Program. Apart from academic responsibilities, he has
worked with the US House of Representatives Banking Committee, the
US Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Economics and consulted for a
variety of multinational firms. Dr. Calder’s publications include Strategic
Capitalism (1993), Crisis and Compensation (1988), The
Eastasia Edge (1982), and most recently, Pacific
Defense (William Morrow and Company, March 1996).
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Dr.
Peter Cappelli
Peter Cappelli is the George W. Taylor Professor
of Management at The Wharton School and Director of Wharton’s Center
for Human Resources. Dr. Cappelli has recently published a book
entitled The New Deal at Work: Managing the Market-Driven
Workforce about the new challenges that are following from the
decline of long-term employment commitments. He has degrees in
Industrial Relations from Cornell University and in Labor Economics
from Oxford where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He has been a guest
scholar at the Brookings Institution, a German Marshall Fund Fellow,
and a faculty member at MIT, the University of Illinois, and the
University of California at Berkeley as well as at The Wharton
School. He was a staff member on the Secretary of Labor’s Commission
on Workforce Quality and Labor Market Efficiency, a member of the
technical subcommittee for Adult Literacy (Goal 5) of the National
Goals for Educational Panel, and Co-Director of the US Department of
Education’s National Center on the Educational Quality of the
Workforce (EQW). Professor Cappelli’s research has examined labor
relations, changes in work and the effects on skill requirements,
the contribution of work place attitudes and behaviors to job
related skills, and the effects on work force skills associated with
choices of employment practices. He currently directs an executive
education program on managing human resources and one on managing
higher education institutions for The Wharton School.
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Sir
Bryan Carsberg
Sir Bryan Carsberg is former Secretary-General of the
International Accounting Standards Committee. Prior to taking this
position in 1985, he held
public office over the previous eleven years, first as the first
Director General of Telecommunications from 1984, and more recently
as Director General of Fair Trade. Sir Bryan qualified as a
Chartered Accountant and became a member of the Institute of
Chartered Accountants in England and Wales in 1960. Between 1969-81,
Sir Bryan was Professor of the Department of Accounting and Business
Finance at the University of Manchester. He was the Dean of its
Faculty of Economic and Social Studies from 1977-78; and he was the
Arthur Andersen Professor of Accounting of the London School of
Economics from 1981-84. In 1974, he was a visiting professor at the
University of California (Berkeley). From 1978-81, he was Assistant
Director for the US Financial Accounting Standards Board. Sir Bryan
was a member of the UK Accounting Standards Board from 1990-94, and
was its Deputy Chairman between 1990-92. In May 1988, Sir Bryan was
presented with the Chartered Accountants Founding Society’s
Centenary Award in recognition of his services to society through
his work at OFTEL (Office of Telecommunications). He was knighted in
January 1989. In December 1992, Sir Bryan was presented with the
Bleau Award for his work in the field of telecommunications. Sir
Bryan is the author or co-author of eleven publications on
accounting, economics and finance. He was educated at Berkhamsted
School and the London School of Economics (LSE) and gained his MSc
(Economics) with distinction through part time study at LSE in 1967.
Sir Bryan’s interests include running, theater, opera and
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Dr. Derong Chen
Derong
Chen is the Chief Representative of Hydro Aluminium Beijing
Representative Office. She joined Norsk Hydro in 1998 as Business
and Organization Development Director in Beijing and subsequently
held positions of increasing responsibility as General Manager of
Norsk Hydro Magnesium Xi’an Co. (2001-2002) which is Hydro first
wholly owned company in China, Senior Advisor for various businesses
in China. Previously, she was Human Resources Manager of ICI China
(1994-1998) and Organization Development Director of SmithKline-Beecham
in China (1998). Dr. Chen was Dean of China Europe International
Business School (CEIBS) in 1987-1989 when the school was set up in
Beijing jointly by the European Commission and the State Economic
Commission. In 1970s and 1980s, she was working with the Chinese
state-owed companies for more than ten years as engineer and
manager. She received her B.S. in Material Science at the Beijing
University of Science and Technology in 1968. In 1986 she obtained
her MBA from CEIBS at the same time she was working at the school.
In 1993 she received her PhD on Organizational Behavior from Aston
University, UK. She published her PhD thesis, “Chinese Firms between
Hierarchy and Market: the Contract Management Responsibility System
in China” by Macmillan in London and New York in 1995. Her other
publications, for example, are “Three Dimensional Rationales in
Chinese Negotiation” by Negotiation Eclectics, Harvard Law School in
2000, “When Chinese Companies Negotiating with their Government” by
Organization Studies, 1995. At this moment she is writing her book
about her father and his brothers who pursued very different career
paths in terms of political choice and ideology. |
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Mr.
Don Cohn
Don Cohn is a freelance writer and editor in Hong
Kong and the founder of Don Cohn Tours. He is the author of the 1992
book Beijing Walks: An historical guide to the City and of many
articles. He worked as books editor at Far Eastern Economic Review
in Hong Kong from 1990 to 1998. Mr. Cohn, who is fluent in spoken
and written Mandarin Chinese, has been involved with China since the
late 1970s. In 1981-84, he worked in Beijing as an editor and
translator. He founded Don Cohn Tours in 1984. Since then the firm
has organized over 100 special interest tours to China, Hong Kong
and other Asian countries for corporate clients and others. He is
presently engaged in a project that involves researching the history
of Chinese children's books. |
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Ms. Peggy Day
Peggy Day
is founder of Wing-It Tours and leads The International Forum in
Tibet, Mongolia and Bhutan. She has
worked in the Himalaya for over 20 years. In addition to operating
treks in Tibet, Bhutan and Mongolia, her involvement in development
projects with the local people have given her a deep appreciation of
Himalayan cultures. Her friends and mentors include Her Majesty
Ashi Tsering Pem, Queen of Bhutan, Sir Edmund Hillary, and many
political and religious leaders throughout the Himalaya. She is
responsible for the construction and maintenance of a home for 17
children in Tibet. |
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Dr.
Kenneth DeWoskin
Kenneth J. DeWoskin is Professor of International
Business and Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor. A former Chair of his department and former
Director of Michigan’s Center for Chinese Studies, Dr. DeWoskin has
been involved with China for over 35 years. He has lived and worked
for several years in both Chinese countries (Taiwan) and in Japan.
Dr. DeWoskin presently serves as Senior China Advisor for
PriceWaterhouseCoopers Management Consultancy in East Asia. He also
serves as Senior China Advisor for one of the big three auto makers.
In recent years, he has worked for dozens of Fortune 200 companies
on China projects in a range of industries, including manufacturing,
consumer products, telecommunications, insurance, and travel. Author
of numerous books and articles in China, Dr. DeWoskin recently
co-edited a revised edition of The Chinese: Adapting the Past,
Facing the Future. He is presently working on an on-going study
of management reform in State-owned enterprises. Dr. DeWoskin is a
core faculty member of The Wharton International Forum in Shanghai
and author and presenter in a recently published video series,
Doing Business in China. He appears regularly in press
interviews with Business Week, Fortune, Asia Wall
Street Journal, The Washington Post, Far Eastern
Economic Review, and major wire services. He is also co-founder
of Michigan’s Center for International Business Education, and he
presents regularly in executive education programs for both Michigan
and The Wharton School. Dr. DeWoskin’s experience with Mainland
China goes back to 1977, when he first traveled there. Subsequently
he served with former ambassador to China, Leonard Woodcock, as
Executive Director of the Michigan Governor’s Commission on China.
In that capacity, he worked with government, public sector, and
private sector projects in China, developing partnership
relationships with a variety of Chinese companies and governmental
organizations. Dr. DeWoskin also consults for a number of
multinational clients on their China practices, focusing on strategy
and organizational effectiveness. He is presently involved in
projects in the automotive sectors, telecommunications, technology,
retail and distribution, and energy. Dr. DeWoskin received his BA
from Columbia College in 1965, and his PhD from Columbia University
in 1974. He has also studied at National Taiwan University and Kyoto
University, and he is a fluent speaker of Mandarin Chinese and
Japanese. Dr. DeWoskin divides his time between Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Ms.
Lorraine DiSimone
Lorraine DiSimone, Mezzo
Soprano, has performed extensively in concert as well as on the
opera stage. Ms. DiSimone has sung with the Pittsburgh Symphony
under Eduarto Mata, in DeFalla’s La Vida Breve, Bernstein’s
Arias and Barcarolles with the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra
under Keith Lockhart and a concert performance of Wagner’s Die
Walküre with the Prague State Opera under Hans Wallat. She made
her Carnegie Hall debut as Fenena in Verdi’s Nabucco with the
New York Grand Opera and since that time has been a soloist at
Carnegie Hall in performances of Händel’s Messiah, Mozart’s
C Minor Mass and Requiem, Beethoven’s Mass in C, and
Mascagni’s Silvan. A CD of Silvano was released on
Elysium Recordings in 1995. She made her European debut in concert
at La Fenice in Venice performing Socrate by Satie. Since that time
she has sung as soloist with the Augsburg Philharmonic in Mahler’s
Symphony No.2, Berlioz’s Nuits d’Ete´ and Romeo et
Juliette. Ms. DiSimone’s opera repertoire spans mezzo roles from
Rosina in Barber of Seville, Preziosilla in Forza del
Destino, Nancy in Albert Herring, Savitri in Holst’s
Savitri, Suzuki in Madama Butterfly, Wellgunde in Das
Rheingold, and Gerhilde in Die Walküre to the pants roles
of Sesto in La Clemenza di Tito, Nicklausse in Tales of
Hoffmann, Hänsel, Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, and
the Composer in Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos. Operetta roles
have included Huguette in The Vagabond King, Estrelda in
Sousa’s El Capitan and Clementina in Desert Song. She
has performed with the Glimmerglass Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Texas
Opera Theater, Center for Contemporary Opera, Des Moines Metro
Opera, Boise Opera, Sarasota Opera, DiCapo Opera, New England Lyric
Operetta , Teatro Lirico Sperimentale in Spoleto, Italy and in
Augsburg, Germany with the Städtische Bühnen Augsburg . A Finalist
in the Metropolitan Opera Auditions, the Washington International
Competition, and the American Opera Auditions, Ms. DiSimone received
her Masters of Music in Voice from the New England Conservatory of
Music in Boston.
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Ms.
Diane Durston
Diane Durston is the Director of Asian Cultural
Programs of The International Forum, responsible for the cultural
aspects of the Forum in Asia, including Japan, China, and Thailand.
She is the author of The Living Traditions of Old Kyoto and
Kyoto: Seven Paths to the Heart of the City. She lectures
frequently, and her articles on Japanese culture and crafts have
appeared in numerous publications in the US and in Japan, where she
lived for eighteen years. For the past twelve years, she has
organized programs introducing Asian culture for corporations,
university and museum groups. She is a consultant for the National
Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, where she recently completing two
projects: a month-long Japanese performing arts festival in
conjunction with the "Edo: Art in Japan 1615-1868" exhibition, and a
performance of 65 bronze bells from China for the opening of "The
Golden Age of Chinese Archeology" exhibition. She is currently
producing an interactive computer project which compares and
contrasts Japanese, Korean and Chinese art and culture for the
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Dr.
Marc Faber
Marc Faber is Managing Director of Marc Faber
Limited, which acts as an investment advisor, fund manager and
broker/dealer in Hong Kong. He is Investment Manager of the
Iconoclastic International Fund, a global fund specializing in
unusual investment opportunities. He is Director of the Baring
Chrysalis Fund, the Baring Taiwan Fund, the Income Partners Global
Strategy Fund, the Framlington Eastern Europe Fund, the Buchanan
Special Emerging Markets Fund, the Hendale Asia Fund, the Indian
Smaller Companies Fund, and the Central and Southern Asia Fund, and
the Regent Magna Europa Fund plc. A regular speaker at various
investment seminars, and well known for his contrarian approach to
investing, Dr. Faber established his own business after having
served from 1978-90 as Managing Director of Drexel Burnham Lambert
(HK) Ltd. From 1970-78 he worked for White Weld & Co. Ltd. in
New York, Zurich and Hong Kong. Dr. Faber, who has lived in Hong
Kong since 1973, publishes a widely read monthly investment
newsletter, The Gloom, Boom and Doom Report, and is the
author of The Great Money Illusion: The Confusion of the
Confusions, which was on the best-seller list for several weeks
in 1988 and has been translated into Chinese and Japanese. Dr. Marc
Faber, born in Zurich, Switzerland received a PhD in Economics,
magna cum laude, from the University of Zurich at the age of
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Dr.
Marshall Fisher
Marshall Fisher is the Stephen J. Heyman Professor
of Operations and Information Management at The Wharton School and
Co-Director of the Fishman-Davidson Center for Service and
Operations Management. After teaching assignments at the University
of Chicago and Cornell University, Dr. Fisher joined the faculty of
The Wharton School in 1975. His pioneering research in logistics and
supply chain coordination has been implemented by many companies and
recognized by numerous awards. In 1981, he co-founded Distribution
Analysis, Research and Technology, Inc., a consulting company that
provided optimization software and strategy consulting. He served as
Chairman of the Board of Directors of this company until 1990, at
which point the company was merged with Manugistics Inc. In 1990,
Dr. Fisher developed Accurate Response, an integrated framework
linking operational changes and planning approaches to improve a
firm’s ability to match supply with the demand for new products.
Accurate Response was initially implemented at Sport Obermeyer which
credits the approach with doubling profits and improving customer
service. Dr. Fisher is currently engaged in a multi-year study
funded by the Sloan Foundation to investigate how retailers are
exploiting information technology and flexible manufacturing to
improve the merchandising of fashion products. In 1994, Dr. Fisher
was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He also
served as President of the Institute of Management Science during
1988-89 and as Departmental Editor of Management Science from
1979-83. He is a recipient of the 1977 Lanchester Prize for the best
paper in operations research in that year, the 1983 Edelman Prize
from the Institute of Management Science, the E. Grosvenor Plowman
Award from the Council of Logistics Management for contributions to
logistics and the 1995 and 1996 Wharton School MBA Core Curriculum
Cluster Award for teaching excellence. Dr. Fisher earned an SB in
electrical engineering and an MBA and PhD degrees in operations
research from MIT.
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Dr.
Kenneth M. Ford
Kenneth Ford is Founder and Director of the
Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) at the University
of West Florida. IHMC has grown into a well-respected research
institute with over 60 researchers investigating a broad range of
topics related to understanding cognition in both humans and
machines with a particular emphasis on building cognitive prostheses
to leverage and amplify human intellectual capacities. Dr. Ford, who
has an interdisciplinary interest in understanding cognition in both
humans and other machines, is the author of over a hundred
scientific papers and five books. Dr. Ford’s broader interests
include Internet-based applications, computer-mediated learning,
academic entrepreneurship and emerging technology enable business
models. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of AAAI/MIT Press, involved
in the editing of several journals, and is a Behavioral and Brain
Sciences (BBS) Associate. Dr. Ford has received local and national
teaching awards. In 1995, he was elected Councilor of the AAAI
(American Association for Artificial Intelligence) and is also Chair
of the publications committee. He is past President of FLAIRS
(Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society). In 1997, Dr.
Ford received the University Research and Creative Activities Award
at the University of West Florida. In January 1997, Dr. Ford was
asked by NASA to help transform it into an information technology
agency by developing and directing its new Center of Excellence in
Information Technology at the Ames Research Center in the heart of
Silicon Valley. He accepted the mission, and having done it, he is
returning to private life while still serving as Chief Technologist
for NASA’s Ames Research Center. In July 1999, Dr. Ford was awarded
the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal. Dr. Ford was educated at
Tulane University, where he received a PhD in Computer
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Dr.
Gerrit Gong
Gerrit Gong is the Assistant to the President for
Planning and Assessment at Brigham Young University in Provo,
Utah. Prior to taking this position in 2001 Dr. Gong was the Freeman Chair in China Studies
at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in
Washington, DC and has directed the CSIS Asian Studies Program since
1989. He is also a Director of The International Forum.
He has
taught and researched on the faculties of Oxford, Georgetown and
Johns Hopkins Universities. Dr. Gong’s State Department assignments
include serving as Special Assistant to two US Ambassadors at the
American Embassy in Beijing. He was in China during the Tiananmen
period. He also served as Special Assistant to the Senior Career
Officer in the State Department, the Under Secretary of State for
Political Affairs. Dr. Gong was also assigned for a year at the
American Institute in Taiwan. Dr. Gong accompanied then-Chief
Justice of the US Supreme Court Warren E. Burger as Personal Advisor
on the Chief Justice’s official visit to the PRC.
He serves as
executive director for senior, bipartisan Congressional (both House
and Senate) and private-sector delegations visiting Asia. Dr. Gong
was executive officer for the state visit to China of then President
and Mrs. George Bush. He writes, lectures and consults on a range of
East Asian developments and issues in Europe, Asia and North
America. Dr. Gong is a Rhodes Scholar with PhD and Master’s degrees
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Professor
Hotaka Katahira
Hotaka Katahira is
Professor of Marketing Science, the Business Studies Department at
the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Economics. Professor
Katahira, who became Professor in 1989, is also a Director of the
Japan Institute of Marketing Science, a Founding Director of
Executive Marketing Forum of UT, and a fellow of the World Economic
Forum. Professor Katahira has written numerous articles and books,
including The Principles of Power Brands. He most recently
has published, Leveraging Japan- Marketing to the New Asia
with George Fields of Fields Associates and Jerry Wind of The
Wharton School (Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, 2000). He has
also published a comprehensive positioning analysis software series,
LOGMAP, and a brand health monitoring system, BEEPS. Professor
Katahira has been a visiting professor at The Wharton School and the
University of California at Berkeley. He has consulted many Japanese
and non-Japanese firms including Honda, Nestle, NEC and Heinz. He
received a BA from International Christian University, Tokyo in
1970, and an MA in Economics from the University of Tokyo in
1972. |
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Mr.
Marc Peter Keane
Marc Peter Keane is a Landscape Architect in
Kyoto. After graduating with a degree in Landscape Architecture from
Cornell University, he worked in New York City and Burlington,
Vermont, for six years before moving to Japan. He spent his first
two years in Japan as a research fellow at Kyoto University. Since
then he has been creating and building gardens for companies,
temples, and private individuals. He teaches a design workshop as an
Adjunct Professor at the Kyoto University of Art and Design, and is
a staff member of the Research Center for Japanese Garden Art at the
same university. He is also the Chairman of ISSK, International
Society to Save Kyoto, a multinational society working to preserve
Kyoto's historic environment. His first book, Japanese Garden
Design, was published by Charles E. Tuttle Company in
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Dr.
John Kimberly
John Kimberly is the Novartis Professor in
Healthcare Management at INSEAD, France and is the Henry Bower
Professor in the Departments of Management and Health Care Systems
at The Wharton School and in the Sociology Department in the School
of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a
Senior Fellow in the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at
the University. Dr. Kimberly joined The Wharton School faculty in
1982, following several years as a member of the faculty in the
School of Organization and Management and Institution for Social
Policy and Studies at Yale University. He has also held faculty
appointments at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,
Cornell University, ESSEC, and the Ecole Polytechnique, Paris. He
has consulted with a number of public and private sector
organizations as well as the Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development in Paris and the governments of Brazil and Portugal.
Dr. Kimberly is a specialist on problems of organizational change,
innovation, and design. His teaching and research interests include
venture initiation, markets for executive talent, and organizational
change strategies. His most recent work has focused on problems of
technology diffusion, organizational innovation and public
formulation in health care organizations and the conditions for
successful entrepreneurial management in both small and large firms.
He is currently working on new relationships between employers and
those employed and how these are likely to revolutionize the
workplace. Dr. Kimberly received his BA degree from Yale University
and his MS and PhD degrees in Organizational Behavior from Cornell
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Dr.
John Paul MacDuffie
John Paul MacDuffie is
an Associate Professor in the Management Department at the Wharton
School, University of Pennsylvania. His research is centrally
concerned with the rise of Alean@ or Aflexible@ production as an
alternative to mass production, focusing on the world automotive
industry. He has investigated the consequences of lean production
for economic performance; the diffusion of this approach across
company and country boundaries; patterns of collaborative
problem-solving and knowledge transfer within and across firms; and
the implications of these changes for individual managers,
engineers, and workers. Dr. MacDuffie has worked for many years with
M.I.T.’s International Motor Vehicle Program (IMVP); his research on
the comparative performance of manufacturing plants worldwide was
featured in the best-selling IMVP book The Machine That Changed
the World. His current work examines the applicability of a
“build-to-order” business model to the auto industry, as a possible
“post-lean” production paradigm. He is exploring how
“build-to-order” may be facilitated by e-business initiatives (both
B2B and B2C) and by experiments with modular design and production
involving automakers and first-tier suppliers worldwide. He received
his B.A. degree from Harvard University and his Ph.D. degree from
the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T. He also formerly held the
Harman Fellowship in the Program on Work, Technology, and Human
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Mr.
Zymunt Nagorski
Zygmunt Nagorski is Founder and President of the
Center for International Leadership in Washington, DC. The Center
specializes in custom made seminars and workshops for American and
European companies dealing primarily with values, ethics and
leadership-related issues. Prior to establishing the Center on
January 1, 1986, Mr. Nagorski was Vice President and Director of the
Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies’ Executive Seminars program.
His other professional experiences include Program Director of the
Council on Foreign Relations (1969-78); Vice President, the Lehrman
Institute (1978-80); and a decade spent in the US Foreign Service
with diplomatic posts in Cairo, Egypt; Seoul, South Korea and Paris,
France. Mr. Nagorski came to the United States in 1948, from Poland,
and started his career as a Reporter and Copy Editor on the
Chattanooga Times. Later he worked as a Special Correspondent
of The Christian Science Monitor, the Boston Post and
other publications. His books include Armed Unemployment,
published in Britain; The Psychology of East-West Trade,
published in New York in 1975; and US-Japanese Economic
Relations, published in 1980. He is a contributor to such
national publications as The New York Times, The
Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Nagorski
was educated in Poland at the University of Cracow Law School and in
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DR. TULASI SRINIVAS
Tulasi
Srinivas
is a native of Bangalore, India, and that is the field site of most
of her anthropological research. Currently a postdoctoral fellow at
the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs at
Georgetown University, she has taught at Wheaton College, MA and at
Boston University. Her areas of research and writing are religion,
food and culture.
Growing up in
idyllic Bangalore in the late 1970’s, she retains a unique happy
memory of the city, and has followed its stupendous growth into a
major IT hub with mixed emotions. She considers herself a “true”
Bangalorean. She is intimately connected to the fabric of Bangalore;
her father, the sociologist M.N. Srinivas grew up in Mysore, and
moved “back” to Bangalore to start the Institute for Social and
Economic Change in the early 1970’s; her mother Rukmini Srinivas, a
cultural geographer, did the first geographical maps of the city for
a study of the slums of Bangalore in the mid 1970s, her sister
Lakshmi Srinivas, a sociologist of media, also studies Bangalore;
and Tulasi’s spouse, Popsi Narasimhan, a software architect and
manager with Hewlett Packard, is also a native Bangalorean. She
loves being in the city and showing it to people, and though she has
lived in many places, she still considers Bangalore her “home”.
Srinivas has
written widely about India, cultural globalization and religion.
Between 1998 and 1999 she was the site director for the Indian
section of a ten nation study on cultural globalization undertaken
jointly by the Center for the Study of religion and World Affairs (CURA)
at Boston University, and the Harvard Academy of International and
Area studies at Harvard University, which was funded by the Pew
foundation and the Smith Richardson foundation published in the
volume “Many Globalizations” (Oxford Press : 2001). She has
held several prestigious fellowships and awards and presented at
several international and national conferences. Her most recent work
on the transnational Sathya Sai movement, cultural globalization and
religious pluralism tentatively titled, “Frontiers of Faith:
Rethinking Religion and Globalization” looks at what the
Indian example can productively offer the ongoing debate on religion
and globalization.
Between her
life in Bangalore and becoming an anthropologist in Boston, she also
picked up a Masters’ degree in Architecture at the University of
Southern California and worked in Los Angeles as an urban planner.
She is fond
of reading (historical biographies) and gardening (a challenge in
New England) eating (authentic food) and cooking (teaching as well
as practice). Her greatest loves are her two spoiled African grey
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Dr.
George Thomas
George Thomas is a lecturer in Historic
Preservation and Urban Studies at the University of Pennsylvania's
Graduate School of Fine Arts. Dr. Thomas also has taught at the
Philadelphia College of Art, Community College of Philadelphia,
Drexel University and Bryn Mawr College. He is the author or
co-author of a number of books, including Frank Furness: The
Complete Works, Drawing Towards Building: Philadelphia
Architectural Graphics 1732-1986 and Cape May: Queen of the
Seaside Resorts. He has organized exhibitions at Penn's Arthur
Ross Gallery, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the
Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Brandywine Museum in Chadds Ford,
Pennsylvania. Since 1977 Dr. Thomas has consulted for 25 National
Register Historic Districts. He was a founding partner of the Clio
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Professor
Tianxiang Zhan
Tianxiang Zhan has been a member of the Faculty of the
History Department at Zhejiang University (formerly Hangzhou
University) in Hangzhou, China, since 1982. In 1997, he completed a
one-year sabbatical in Portland, Oregon at Portland State
University, where he conducted research and taught classes in Modern
Chinese History and Chinese Culture. He also taught T’ai chi for the
North West China Council in Portland. From 1993 to the present, Dr.
Zhan has worked as an academic advisor with the China Center
developed by the Friends World Program at the Long Island
University. From 1986-93, Professor Zhan served as Vice Director of
the department. From 1984-85, he was a visiting scholar in
prehistory in the Anthropology Department at Indiana University.
From 1968-79, he was a high school teacher. Professor Zhan is the
author of a number of books and articles, including The Brief
Biography of Figures in World History and Compilation of
Great Events in World History. He also contributed articles on a
number of topics, including the Hassuna, Halaf, Eridu and Uruk
cultures, to the Volume of Archeology in The Chinese
Encyclopedia. Professor Zhan is a member of the National
Association for the Ancient and Medieval World History and Vice Head
of its Prehistoric Branch. He also is Vice Chairman of the
Historical Association in Zhejiang Province. He received a BA in
Russian from Hangzhou University in 1967, and an MA in History from
in 1982.
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