Guest Speakers 2009
Experts invited by departments and centers in the Mendoza College of Business to speak to students, faculty and the public on a broad range of topics.
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The Frank Cahill Lecture in Business Ethics and Theordore M. Hesburgh Award |
| by Keith Sherin, Chief Financial Officer, General Electric |
April 1, 2009 |
| The Theordore M. Hesburgh Award was presented to the General Electric Company and accepted by Keith Sherin, Chief Financial Officer, General Electric. |
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| by William Bastedo, Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton |
September 2, 2009 |
| Mr. Bastedo, a Vice-President at Booz Allen Hamilton, received a B.S. degree and an M.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Notre Dame. |
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| by Paul Purcell, Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer |
September 8, 2009 |
| Paul E. Purcell is Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer of Baird Holding Company, Baird Financial Corporation and Robert W. Baird & Co. Incorporated. Purcell joined Baird in 1994 and served in a variety of capacities, including Chief Operating Officer, before becoming President & Chief Executive Officer in 2000. |
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| by John Barrett, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Western & Southern Financial Group |
September 14, 2009 |
| John F. Barrett is chairman, president and chief executive officer of Cincinnati-based Western & Southern Financial Group®, a Fortune 500 company with a diversified family of financial services companies with assets owned, managed and under its care in excess of $42 billion. |
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Business as a Calling |
| by Michael Novak, Director of Social and Political Studies and the George Frederick Jewett Chair in Religion, Philosophy and Public Policy, American Enterprise Institute |
September 17, 2009 |
| Michael Novak received the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion (a million-dollar purse awarded at Buckingham Palace) in 1994, and delivered the Templeton address in Westminster Abbey. |
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GE Live: Winning in Today’s World |
| by Jeff Immelt and Keith Sherin, Chairman and CEO; Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer |
October 7, 2009 |
| The topic of the 2009 GE Live forum hosted by the University of Notre Dame on Oct. 7 was “Winning in Today’s World.” A world, chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt was quick to say to the MBA students gathered, that was vastly changed from the time he graduated from Harvard Business School in 1982.
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Ask More of Business...Ask More of Yourself |
| by Scott James, Founder, Fair Trade Sports |
October 23, 2009 |
| Scott James is the founder of Fair Trade Sports, offering the world's first line of sports balls for soccer, football, basketball that are eco-certified and Fair Trade Certified. Like the Newman's Own brand, all after-tax profits are designated for charity.
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Town Hall Meeting: The Pickens Plan for U.S. energy independence from imported oil |
| by T. Boone Pickens, Texas oilman and founder and CEO of hedge fund BP Capital Management |
October 26, 2009 |
| T. Boone Pickens, Texas oilman and founder and CEO of hedge fund BP Capital Management, brought his message about the need for new energy solutions to the University of Notre Dame. |
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