Thursday, June 17, 2010

Renowned scholars joined our parellel panels to evaluate the issues we will encounter in the years to come: climate change, demographic shifts, an unstable economic outlook, the growing need for international cooperation, smart regulation – and above all, the paradigm changes required to balance the demands of people, planet, and profit.

Program overview

8:00 - 9:00 a.m. Breakfast

Start the day of academic exchange with a networking breakfast. Wipro's Jt. CEO, Girish S. Paranjpe, will speak about "Creating a 21st century sustainable enterprise - from what now to what next?"

Girish S. Paranjpe
Jt.- CEO, IT Business
Member of the Board
Wipro Limited

9:00 - 09:10 a.m. Introductory Remarks

Lars-Hendrik Röller
President
ESMT

09:10 - 10:00 a.m. Keynote Address

Jagdish N. Bhagwati
Professor
Columbia University

10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. FULLY BOOKED: Panel I - People: Leading for Sustainability

This panel discussion is dedicated to the sustainable development of talent in organizations. The panelists and the audience discuss how to turn workplaces into environments in which employee potential can be developed and released with long-term effectiveness for the organization and the people.

Special attention is paid to the relationship between leadership and talent in organization, and to the development of leaders who are sensitive to the human side of the organization.

Panelists

Andrew Dyckhoff
CEO - UK
Merryck & Co. Ltd.

Jonathan Gosling
Director of the Center for Leadership Studies
University of Exeter

Manfred Kets de Vries
Distinguished Professor / Raoul de Vitry d'Avaucourt Chaired Clinical Professor of Leadership Development
ESMT / INSEAD

Charles O'Reilly
Frank E. Buck Professor of Management, Hank McKinnell Pfizer Inc. Director of the Center for Leadership Development and Research
Stanford Graduate School of Business

Catherine Tinsley
Executive Director Women’s Leadership Initiative and Associate Professor, McDonough School of Business
Georgetown University

Mary Uhl-Bien
Howard Hawks Chair in Business Ethics and Leadership, Associate Director, Global Leadership Institute
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Moderators

Konstantin Korotov
Associate Professor
ESMT

Zhike Lei
Assistant Professor
ESMT

10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. FULLY BOOKED: Panel II - Planet: Green Energy Future - Hopes and Realities

After Copenhagen what? Given the general disappointment the question arises what stakeholders still expect and what suppliers can and have to do. The session aims to contrast these views. In the first part, political pathways to a low-carbon economy are presented, evaluated, and discussed, both from a European and a US perspective.

In the second part, we focus on how energy companies pursue different strategies to secure current market share. We will debate their innovative strengths and weaknesses and assess their potential to play a mjaor role in the green economy.

Panelists

Carlos J. Härtel
Managing Director Europe
GE Global Research

Mel Horwitch
Professor of Technology Management and Director of the Institute for Technology and Enterprise Polytechnic Institute
New York University

Matthias Kopp
Project Manager Finance and Climate
World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF)

Georg Meran
Vice-President, German Institute for Economic Research & Dean of Graduate Studies, Technische Universität Berlin

Eckhardt Rümmler
Senior Vice President Upstream/Generation
E.ON AG

Alexander Voigt
Chief Executive Officer
Younicos AG

Moderator

Christoph Burger
Faculty Professional, ESMT and Head of Practice Group TTU & General Management
ESMT Customized Solutions

10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. FULLY BOOKED: Panel III - Profit: Doing Well With Doing Good

The breakout session on “profit” hopes to accomplish two main objectives:

First, we shall explore what companies need to do to combine “doing well with doing good.” In other words, often times achieving “planet” and “people” goals is viewed as a zero-sum game when combined with the goal of “profit maximization.” But does it have to be this way? What strategies can companies formulate and implement to create both business and social value?

The second objective is to explore our obsession with “profit” itself. What can we do as a community to transition from a “single bottom line” craze to think seriously about the “triple bottom line” concept whereby companies are not only judged by profitability but also by their social and environmental performance?