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Vittorio Corbo Chairman of the Board of the Central Bank of Chile
  
 
Roberto Canessa  
Uruguayan survivor of the Andes Mountains plane accident in 1972, talking about “Leadership in times of crisis and/or extreme situations”
   
 
Daniel Kaufmann
Director of Global Governance
World Bank Institute
    
 
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Chairman and Chief Mentor
Infosys Technologies
     
 
Cyril de Bournet
Managing Director
Casa Lapostolle Winery
   
 
Soumitra Dutta
Dean of Executive Education
INSEAD
  
 
Eric K. Clemons
Professor
The Wharton School
    
 
George S. Day
Professor
The Wharton School
      
 
Lourdes Casanova
Lecturer at INSEAD
   
 
Gary Burtless
Senior fellow, Economic Studies program, Brookings Institution
   
 
Olivia S. Mitchell
Professor
The Wharton School
   
 
Mauricio González
Gordon
President of Spanish Wine Federation, FEV, CEO of Gonzalez Byass owner of Tio Pepe Shery, Beronia (Rioja) and Altozano wine.
    
 
Anthony Hamilton-Russell
Propietor of Hamilton Russell Vineyards, South Africa
  
 
Robert Mangels
Chairman
Mangels Industrial
   
 
Andrés Navarro
Presidente
Sonda   
  
 
Joseph Msays
 General Manager, IGS Public Sector for Asia Pacific
  
 
Bruce Catania
Managing Director, Head of Citigroup Venture Capital International - Latin America
  
 
José Piñera
Former Minister of Labor and Social Security
  
 
Hernán Büchi
Former Finance Minister
Counselor for Instituto Libertad y Desarrollo
   
 
Joseph Harari
Director Credicorp Bank and Compañía Internacional de Seguros
   
 
J. Antonio Baltodano
Chairman and Chief Executive Officier, Mercon Coffe Corporation
   
 
Laird Pendleton
Founder, Cairnwood Cooperative Corporation and Chairman, Wharton Global Family Alliance Advisory Board
   
 
Raffi Amit
Professor Wharton School
   
 
Julio de Quesada
Managing Director Banamex
   
 
Carlos Franz
Chilean novelist
   
 
Jaime Chico Pardo
General Director Telmex
   
 
Luis Rivera Novo Chief Executive Officer Endesa Internacional S.A.
   
 
Shiv Khemka
Director SUN Group
   
 
Ricardo Zabala
Board Member AFP Habitat
   
 
Francisco Tomic
Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Vice President for Human Development, Codelco, Chile
   
 
Oscar Von Hauske
Director, Telmex, México
   
 
Martin Mayer-Wolf
Managing Director, Nidera S.A.
   
   
 
SPEAKERS
 

Eric K. Clemons
Professor of Operations and Information Management and Management
PhD, Cornell University, 1976; MS, Cornell University, 1974; SB, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1970


  
   
Research Areas
Information technology and business strategy; information technology and financial markets; making the decision to invest in strategic information technology ventures; managing the risk of strategic information technology implementations; strategic implications of electronic commerce for channel power and profitability.

Current Projects
Reginald Jones Center research project on strategic and competitive information technology. Working with major corporations to study impacts of information technology on the future of their firms and industries; special focus on financial services, consumer packaged goods distribution and Huntsman Center project on competing in emerging markets.

Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 1976-present. Visiting appointments: Harvard University; Cornell University; Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Professional Leadership 2001-2005
Editorial Board, Journal of Management Information Systems, 1988-present; Editorial Board, Journal of Electric Commerce, 1996-present

Representative Publications

"Using Scenario Analysis to Manage the Strategic Risks of Reengineering." Sloan Management Review 3.4 (Summer 1995). (with B.W. Weber)

"Information Technology and Screen-Based Securities Trading: Pricing the Stock and Pricing the Trade." Management Science 43.12 (December 1997). (with G. Day and D. Reibstein)

"Technology-Driven Environmental Shifts and the Sustainable Competitive Disadvantage of Previously Dominant Companies." Wharton on Dynamic Competitive Strategy (1997).