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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
 

George S. Day

Geoffrey T. Boisi Professor; Professor of Marketing
Co-Director, Mack Center for Technological Innovation
Director, Emerging Technologies Management Research Program PhD, Columbia University, 1968; MBA, University of Western Ontario, Canada,                            1962; BASc, University of British Columbia, Canada, 1959  

  

Research Areas
Competitive strategies in global markets; new product development and management; market structure and competitive analysis; strategic planning processes and methods; marketing management

Recent Consulting

Consultant to business, government, and research organizations on marketing management, strategic planning, and competitive strategies

Current Projects
Competitive strategies in markets for emerging technologies, including how firms survive shake-outs. How innovative organizations choose their growth directions. Building market-driven organizations. Capabilities for forging customer relationships.

Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 1991-present (Co-Director, Mack Center for Technological Innovation, 2001-present; Director, Huntsman Center for Global Competition and Innovation, 1991-2001; named Geoffrey T. Boisi Professor, 1991). Previous appointments: University of Toronto; International Management Development Institute (IMEDE), Switzerland; Stanford University; University of Western Ontario, Canada. Visiting appointments: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Harvard University, London Business School

Other Positions

Product Development Engineer, Union Carbide, 1959-61; Executive Director, Marketing Science Institute, 1989-91

Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards

Excellence in Teaching Award Graduate Division, 1998; Charles Coolidge Parlin Award for the Advancement of Science in Marketing, 1994; Harold H. Maynard Award for the Most Significant Contribution to Theory, Journal of Marketing, 1994; Paul D. Converse Award for Marketing Science Contributions, 1996; Outstanding Marketing Educator Award, 1999; Vijay Mahajan Award for career contributions to marketing strategy, American Marketing Association, 2001.

Professional Leadership 2001-2005
Editorial Board, Journal of Marketing, 1978-present; Editorial Board, Strategic Management Journal, 1987-present; Editorial Board, Journal of Product Innovation and Management, 1992-present; Editorial Policy Board, Marketing Management, 1990-present; Editorial Policy Board, Strategy and Leadership, 1985-present; Board of Advisors, Journal of Market-Focused Management, 1994-present; Executive Committee, Marketing Science Institute; Board of Directors, Footstar Corporation and Chairman of Governance Committee; Board of Directors, AMA/Sheth Foundation and AMA Foundation

Representative Publications

"Shakeouts in Digital Markets." California Management Review (forthcoming 2002).

(with D. Reibstein)
Wharton on Dynamic Competitive Strategies. John Wiley & Sons (1997).

The Market-Driven Organization, Free Press (1999).

(with D. Montgomery)
"Fundmental Issues and Directions for Marketing." Journal of Marketing (October 1999).

(with P. Schoemaker)
Wharton on Managing Emerging Technologies John Wiley & Sons, 2000. "The Capabilities of Market-Driven Organizations." Journal of Marketing (October 1994).