Business Improvisation - TBD
Learn from the masters of improvisation from The Second City. Strategic and analytical skills are important, but your success often hinges on your ability to connect with others, solve unexpected problems in the moment, and create better ways of working. Improvisational skills are vital in business, especially in the age of virtual teams and lightning fast change.
The Competitive Advantage of Social Capital: Presented by Professor Ron Burt – TBD
How does social capital create competitive advantage? Being embedded in a diverse network of people and perspectives creates brokerage opportunity: applying ideas from one area, field, or community to another can be profitable and increase your value. The advantage is exposure to variation. By contrast, being embedded in a homogeneous network provides closure: people think and act similarly (think about being indoctrinated into banker culture). The advantage is removal of variation and emphasis on consistency, quality, or execution. Professor Ron Burt demonstrates the benefits of effective social networks in organizations in this seminar.
55th Annual Management Conference – May 18, 2007
This year MEG will subsidize group members’ admission to the highly sought after Management Conference. Below is a short summary from the website:
Challenge Everyday Thinking. If you want to improve your professional career, your business or the company you work for, the Chicago GSB’s annual Management Conference is just the event to help you think more deeply about matters you face everyday in your career.You will also be able to keep the dialogue going through networking with more than 1,000 colleagues who share your interest in staying at the forefront of business thinking.
MEG Lunch Social – April 24, 2007
Come and join people who think seriously about leadership from both a theoretical and a practical standpoint. We will be having pizza and soft drinks at the Hyde Park Center
Professor Nick Epley: “Impression Detection” – January 19th, 2007
Think you’re leaving a good impression? You might be surprised. People believe they know the affect they have on others, but academic research suggests that people do a surprisingly poor job of guessing the impression they leave, according to Nicholas Epley, assistant professor of behavioral science. “People’s ability to intuit a specific individual’s impression is surprisingly poor,” Epley told the student-led Managerial Effectiveness Group at Hyde Park Center on January 19. “Confidence is consistently higher than accuracy. Beliefs about one’s ability to intuit another person’s impression are uncorrelated with one’s actual ability to do so.”
Prof. Nick Epley talks about "Leaving a Good Impression." Listen to full Audio Coverage...
McKinsey Communications Event – Nov 7, 2006
MEG hosted a communications workshop in collaboration with McKinsey & Company. The focus of the workshop was to build skills that could help students pitch ideas, position themselves during interview conversations, and use storylines to engage their audiences. The workshop was conducted by Mike Lynn, Training and Team Effectiveness Manager at McKinsey
Over 60 students attended the workshop and found that it provided "very tangible" and "easily implementable" techniques.
Professor Warren Batts: “Taking Charge of Your Internship” – May 2006
Many GSB events focus on how to get an internship, but provide little information on what to do once you arrive. To address this crucial but often overlooked topic, Prof. Warren Batts, one of the GSB’s most experienced professors in terms of real world leadership positions, shared a manager's perspective on how students can enjoy success as an intern.
Fireside Chat with Ms. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw – April 10, 2006
Students joined Professor Linda Darragh in conversation with one of Asia's most successful entrepreneurs, Fortune magazine's top 50 most influential women in business, and Chairman and Founder of Biocon Limited, Asia's largest biotechnology company. The conversation addressed topics on leadership, entrepreneurship, and managerial effectiveness
March 2006
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