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Date Event Content Speaker(s)
June 3, 2005 Rotman Lifelong Learning 2005, U. of Toronto Annual Alumni Continuing Education

[click here for the program at the Rotman site] 		"Introduction"
[click here for a digest by David Ing] 		Andrew Gowers, Editor, Financial Timest (London); and Roger Martin, Dean, Rotman School of Management, U. of Toronto
"The Future and Its Enemies: the Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise and Progress"
[click here for a digest by David Ing] 		Virginia Postrel, Author; Columnist, The New York Times, Forbes
"The Rise of China and India: Global Implications"
[click here for a digest by David Ing] 		Wendy Dobson, Director and Professor, Institute for International Business, Rotman School
"Offshoring and Beyond: Making Globalization Work for You"
[click here for a digest by David Ing] 		Joanne Oxley, Associate Professor of Strategic Management, Rotman Schoolo
"Measuring the Effectiveness of Boards: Shining Light on Unlit Areas of Corporate Endeavour"
[click here for a digest by David Ing] 		Tim Rowley, Deloitte & Touche Professor of Strategic Management, and Director, Clarkson Centre for Business Ethics and Board Effectiveness, Rotman School
"The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent"
[click here for a digest by David Ing] 		Richard Florida, Hirst Professor of Public Policy, George Mason Universityl
"Seismic Shifts: A New World for Market Leaders"
[click here for a digest by David Ing] 		Janice Gross Stein, Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management and Negotiation, and Director, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto
January 20, 2005 Rotman Marketing Association, 2005 Rotman Marketing Guru Lectures "The Future of Marketing"
[click here for a digest by David Ing] 		Dipak Jain, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
June 6, 2004 Rotman Lifelong Learning 2004, U. of Toronto Annual Alumni Continuing Education

[click here for the program at the Rotman site] 		"Introduction"
[click here for a digest by David Ing] 		Roger Martin, Dean, Rotman School of Management, U. of Toronto
"Strategy as Design"
[click here for a digest by David Ing] 		Jeanne Liedtka, Johnson and Higgins Research Associate Professor of Business Administration, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, Vice President and Chief Learning Officer, United Technologies Corporation
"Trading Up: The Consumer-Driven Revolution"
[click here for a digest by David Ing] 		Michael Silverstein, Senior Vice President and Global Consumer and Retail Practice Leader, Boston Consulting Group
"How to Determine the Business You're Really in: Applying McLuhan's Thinking Tools to Business Design"
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Note: This was only one of four concurrent sessions. 		Mark Federman, Director and Professor, McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, U. of Toronto
"The Design of Business"
[click here for a digest by David Ing] 		Roger Martin, Dean, Rotman School of Management, U. of Toronto
March 16, 2004 "This is Not a Reading Series", Innis College Town Hall "The Corporation" (interview)
[click here for a digest by David Ing] 		Joel Bakan, author The Corporation, and Professor of Law, University of British Columbia
March 15, 2004 Rotman School of Management, Business Technology Group Panel Discussion "Convergence: How to Compete and Win"
[click here for a digest by David Ing] 		Hosted by Ajay Agrawal, with Alister Mitchell, Moontaxi, Don Morrison, Research in Motion, Charles Salameh, Bell Canada Holdings, Michael Raynor, Deloitte Research.
March 5, 2004 Rotman School of Management, Organizational Behaviour and HR Management Speaker Series "The Motivated Irrationality of Trusting Acts: Attributions, Cheap Talk, Penance, Contracts, Reciprocity, and Other Causal Forces"
[click here for a digest by David Ing] 		J. Keith Murnighan, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
November 21, 2003 Rotman School of Management, Competitiveness Seminar, cosponsored with the Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity "The Cluster Initiative Greenbook: New Findings on the Process of Cluster-Based Economic Development"
[click here for a digest by David Ing] 		Christian H. M. Ketels, Principal Associate, Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School
May 30, 2003 Rotman Lifelong Learning 2003, U. of Toronto Annual Alumni Continuing Education

[click here for the program at the Rotman site] 		"Capital vs. Talent: The Battle That's Reshaping Business"
[click here for a digest by David Ing] 		Roger Martin, Dean, Rotman School of Management, U. of Toronto
"Looking Backward: How Childhood Experiences Impact a Nation's Wealth"
[click here for a digest by David Ing] 		Dan Trefler, J. Douglas and Ruth Grant Chair in Competitiveness and Prosperity and Professor of Business Economics, , Rotman School of Management, U. of Toronto; and Research Fellow, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
"Retaining the New Generation in Your Organization - What's Next for Talent Management?"
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Note: This was only one of four concurrent sessions. 		Maria Rotundo, Assistant Professor of Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour, Rotman School of Management, U. of Toronto
"The Support Economy: Why Corporations are Failing Individuals and the Next Generation of Capitalism"
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 Shoshana Zuboff, Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
March 25, 2003 Rotman School of Management, Integrative Thinking Seminar "All Models are Wrong:� Systems Thinking for a Complex World"
[click here for a digest by David Ing] 		John Sterman, Director, Systems Dynamics Group, MIT Sloan School of Management
March 10, 2003 Graduate Colloquium in Social Anthropology, York University "Sacred Ecology, Tacit Knowledge and the Kyoto Accord, A Necessary Unity? Or Revamped Animism?",
[click here for a digest by David Ing] 		Peter Harries-Jones, Professor, Department of Anthropology, York University
March 10, 2003 Culture of Cities Project, Department of Sociology, York University "Approaches to Social Theory and the Culture of the City"
[click here for a digest by David Ing] 		Alan Blum, Professor Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, York University, Kieran Bonner, Vice-President and Academic Dean of St. Jerome's University, at the University of Waterloo, and others
Feb. 14, 2003 Strategic Management Workshop,� Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto "Network Emergence: How Small Worlds Make a Big Difference in the Broadway Musical Industry, 1877 to 1995"
[click here for a digest by David Ing] 		Brian Uzzi, Associate Professor of Management and Organizations and Sociology, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Oct. 21, 2002 University Professor Lecture Series, Faculty of Arts & Science, University of Toronto "Held to Account: Challenges of Governance from the Local to the Global"
[click here for a digest by David Ing] 		Janice Gross Stein, Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management and Negotiation in the Department of Political Science and the Director of the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto
Oct. 19, 2002 Durham College and the University of Ontario Institute of Technology Board of Governors' Fall 2002 Retreat "The Ingenuity Gap"
[click here for a digest by David Ing]
[click here for the Ingenuity Gap web site] 		Thomas Homer-Dixon, Director of the Center for the Study of Peace and Conflict, and Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto
Oct. 3, 2002 Strategic Leadership Forum Toronto, Thought Leaders Session "When Networks Matter"
[click here for a digest by David Ing] 		Douglas Reid, Assistant Professor, School of Business, Queen's University
June 20, 2002 Rotman School of Management, CCMF Centre for Integrative Thinking Centre Mission and Goals
[click here for a digest by David Ing] 		Mihnea Moldoveanu, Director, CCMF Centre for Integrative Thinking, Rotman School of Management, U. of Toronto
June 7, 2002 Rotman Lifelong Learning 2002, U. of Toronto Annual Alumni Continuing Education
[click here for an agenda digest by David Ing]

[click here for the program at the Rotman site] 		"The Future of Work and Corporate Organization"
[click here for a digest by David Ing] 		Roger Martin, Dean, Rotman School of Management, U. of Toronto
"The Rise of the Creative Class"
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[click here for more information at http://www.creativeclass.org] 		Richard Florida, H. John Heinz III Professor of Regional Economic Development, Heinz School of Public Policy and Management, at Carnegie Mellon University
"What's So New About the New Economy?"
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Note: This was only one of four concurrent sessions. 		Brian Silverman, Associate Professor, Strategic Management, Rotman School of Management, U. of Toronto
Why the New Forces of Transparency Will Permanently Change the Way You Run Your Organization
[click here for a digest by David Ing] 		Don Tapscott, Fellow and Founder, Digital 4Sight
August 2, 2000 Breaking the Code of Change II, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto "Introduction"
[click here for a digest by David Ing] 		Roger Martin, Dean, Rotman School of Management, U. of Toronto
"The Logic of Models and Interventions"
[click here for a digest by David Ing] 		Mihnea Moldoveanu, Professor, Rotman School of Management, U. of Toronto
"On Strategy, Implementation and Organization"
[click here for a digest by David Ing] 		Michael Porter, Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, Harvard Business School
"Resistance to Change and the Integration of Competitive and Organizational Strategy"
[click here for a digest by David Ing] 		Michael C. Jensen, Jesse Isidor Staus�Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School and Joe Fuller, CEO, Action Company, Monitor Group
Plenary Discussion 1
[click here for a digest by David Ing] 		(all participants)
August 3, 2000 "Meta-Design of the Organization"
[click here for a digest by David Ing] 		Roger Martin, Dean, Rotman School of Management, U. of Toronto
"Business Organization Fitness to Compete:� Toward a Causal Model of Organizational Change�and Learning"
[click here for a digest by David Ing] 		Michael Beer, Cahners-Robb Professor of Business Administration (Emeritus), Harvard Business School , and Russell Eisenstat, President, Center for Organizational Fitness
"Save the Seven Million"
[click here for a digest by David Ing] 		Robert H. Schaffer, Robert H. Schaffer & Associates
Plenary Discussion 2
[click here for a digest by David Ing] 		(all participants)


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