Lecture by Peter G. Klein given at the 2006 Mises Supporter’s Summit, hosted at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama, 27-28 October 2006. http://mises.org
Peter G. Klein is an American Austrian economist who studies managerial and organizational issues. Klein is Associate Professor in the Division of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Missouri and Associate Director of the Contracting and Organizations Research Institute (CORI). He is also an adjunct professor at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the McQuinn Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership.
Klein specializes in organizational economics, strategy, and entrepreneurship, with applications to corporate diversification, organizational design, and innovation. His books include Entrepreneurship and the Firm: Austrian Perspectives on Economic Organization (edited with Nicolai J. Foss, Edward Elgar, 2002), The Fortunes of Liberalism, volume 4 of The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek (University of Chicago Press, 1992), and The Theory of the Firm: Emergence, Synthesis, Challenges, and New Directions (with Nicolai J. Foss, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
During the 2000-2001 academic year, Klein was a Senior Economist on the Council of Economic Advisers. Klein taught previously at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Georgia, the Copenhagen Business School, and the Olin Business School. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, studying under 2009 Nobel Laureate Oliver E. Williamson, and his B.A. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He runs the Organizations and Markets blog with Nicolai J. Foss, professor at the Copenhagen Business School. (Source: Wikipedia)
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http://blog.mises.org/archives/author/peter_g_klein/
http://www.independent.org/aboutus/person_detail.asp?id=1367
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A presentation about how to make organizational changes. Based on John P. Kotter’s change model, with adaptations to take advantage of Theory Of Constraints planning tools.
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Session B.5: Going Global – The People Dimension of Organizational Transformation
*Speaker:
-Dick Kleinert, Principal, Deloitte
-Kent Lockhart, Director, Executive Development, The Walt Disney Company
-Young-Soon Kim, CEO, Credu
*Description:
New business and work force challenges are making HR and people issues more visible and important than ever. People-related challenges not technology, processes or strategy are often the most significant barriers to effective organizational transformation. This session will discuss global trends in structural transformation, related people and organizational challenges and some practical, proactive solutions to enhance organizational performance. Specific topics will include: Current global marketplace pressures (e.g., globalization, talent trends, increasing consumer power, and changing regulatory pressures), Related organizational transformation strategies (e.g., outsourcing, M&A, shared services), Associated human capital challenges and Pragmatic approaches to solving select challenges.
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Dr Claudia Jonczyk ESCP Europe talks about her research into networking styles and the impact they can have on business. Claudia Jonczyk is Associate Professor of Organization Studies at ESCP Europe London campus and a visiting researcher at INSEAD. She teaches Organization and Management as well as Managing Change and Cross-Cultural Management.
Professor Jonczyk holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Behaviour from the University of Geneva and a Master of Science from University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. In the context of her doctorate on narrative approaches to organizational learning she was awarded the Swiss National Science Foundation Scholarship to spend 18 months as a visiting research fellow at MITs Sloan School in Cambridge, where she worked on the topics of knowledge management and organizational learning in high-risk industries. Professor Jonczyk has also taught at the University of Geneva, Switzerland and HEC Paris. She is author and co-author of several articles, research papers and cases on knowledge management, organizational learning and the use of case studies as pedagogical devices.
Of German origin, Claudia Jonczyk has worked as a strategy consultant for LEK Consulting in Germany and the UK and for Pricewaterhouse Coopers and the Geneva Knowledge Group in Switzerland. In her current research Claudia and two colleagues from INSEAD focus on questions of personal network development and career success in high performance service organizations in the audit, law and consulting sector.
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IBM announced the results of a study of more than 1,500 change management executives from 15 countries, which reveals that nearly 60 percent of projects aimed at achieving business change do not fully meet their objectives. Learn more here: http://ibm.com/gbs/makingchangework
See the press release here: http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/25492.wss
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Learn about board concerns versus operations costs for a non-profit organization in this free business startup video from our management and event coordination expert.
Expert: Jim Goettler
Bio: Jim Goettler has Extensive experience with organizations requiring a wide variety of management and interpersonal skills including special event coordination.
Filmmaker: Daron Stetner
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Henri-Dominique Petit, CEO & Chairman Bacou-Dalloz.
Interview conducted by Charles Galunic
Bacou-Dalloz is a global group which provides a critical resource to industries of all shapes and sizes: personal protective equipment, where it is a world leader. Organized around three core businesses-head protection, fall protection and body protection-major industrial processes, and many lives, depend upon Bacou-Dalloz. Mr. Petit kicks-off our series with thoughts on what it means to lead a global industrial company.
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In order to form an LLC, an individual must file articles of organization with the secretary of state. Form an LLC with tips from a certified adviser on small business in this free instructional video on starting a business.
Expert: Paula Roberts
Bio: Paula Roberts is the executive director of the Tennessee State University Small Business Development Center.
Filmmaker: Dimitri LaBarge
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Executive Leadership and Business Performance
Speakers:
Bill Campbell, Chairman of the Board, Intuit
Gordon K. Davidson, Chairman, Fenwick & West, LLP
Daniel Denison, Professor of Management and Organization, IMD; CEO, Denison Consulting
Kavin Stewart, Co-founder & CEO, LOLapps
Moderator:
Rebecca Turner, Professor of Organizational Psychology, MGSM, Alliant International University; Owner, Turner Consulting Group
Efficiency and productivity are strategic imperatives in every corner of industry—from energy consumption to business processes and everything in between. How any and everything connects to the bottom line is fair game for scrutinyor is it?
What about the effects of executive leadership style and resulting corporate culture? Do certain leadership styles have a competitive edge? Could CEO as brand actually kill a company? Which Silicon Valley companies are best positioned for success, and which could be at a disadvantage? Join us for an insightful and spirited discussion about the psychology of executive leadership style and corporate culture, and their effects on business performance.
Bill Campbell is Chairman of the Board and former CEO of Intuit and has been on Apples board since 1997. He is known in Silicon Valley as The Coach for his legendary counsel to organizations such as Apple, Google, and Kleiner Perkins. Campbell also worked as VP of Marketing at Apple, CEO at Claris and GO Corporation, and head coach of Columbia’s football team.
Gordon Davidson is a Partner in the Corporate Group and Chairman of Fenwick & West LLP. He advises high technology companies, including networking, computer software and electronics companies, as well as clean technology and life sciences companies. He is one of three leading lawyers in Silicon Valley, named on Forbes Magazine’s Midas List as one of the top 100 venture capital deal makers in every year the list has been published.
Daniel Denison is Professor of Management and Organization at IMD, a leading business school in Lausanne, Switzerland rated #1 in the world in 2008 by the Economist for its MBA. He is also CEO of Denison consulting. Denisons decades-long studies of organizational culture and business performance are used by thousands of people around the world.
Kavin Stewart is co-founder and CEO of LOLapps, a 2008 startup developing tools for users to create, personalize and share customized applications on social networks. Now profitable and hiring, Stewart attributes part of the companys success to its corporate culture, created deliberately for a new generation of employees.
Rebecca Turner (moderator) is Professor of Organizational Psychology, Marshall Goldsmith School of Management, Alliant International University. She is also owner of Turner Consulting Group and Chair of the Division of Industrial/Organizational Psychology for the California Psychological Association.
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