Featured speakers include:
- Charles Handy, formerly Royal Dutch Shell and the London Business School; author of Age of Unreason and Gods of Management.
- Jeffrey Hollender, CEO, Seventh Generation.
- Jay Hooley, Vice Chairman, State Street Corporation
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School
- David Korten, author of The Great Turning and When Corporations Rule the World.
- Robert Kuttner, columnist for Business Week; Editor, American Prospect; commentator, National Public Radio.
- Damon Silvers, Associate General Counsel, AFL-CIO.
- Henry Mintzberg, McGill University, global leader in organizational management and strategy; author, Rise and Fall of Strategic Management and Managers, Not MBAs.
- Robert Monks, pioneer in corporate governance; founder, Institutional Shareholder Services; author, The New Global Investors.
- Darcy Winslow, Nike Foundation, former General Manager, Sustainable Business Strategies, Nike Inc.
All plenary sessions at the Summit will be informal, interactive and organized in a town-hall style format. Panelists will serve as “conversation starters” to kick-off dialogue with and among participants. Afternoon breakouts will be organized as small group, “café-style” conversations with designated resource persons supporting each group.
Map of Summit Venues
DAY 1: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13
- 2:15 - 4:30pm: Café-style Breakouts I (Hall at Parris)
Clusters organized by key topics, each with a facilitator. Signs to indicate the topic to be covered in each cluster. Participants may also self-organize. Option to rotate to second topic after one hour.
Discussion questions:
- Why is the issue critical to the future of the corporation?
- What is a vision for the next decade, that is, what specific outcomes should be sought?
- What are the opportunities and barriers to achieving such a vision?
- 4:45 - 6:00pm: Plenary Session 3: Reflections on Breakouts
Discussion of key themes emerging from breakouts, with an eye toward Day 2, action agenda-setting.
- 6:00pm: Adjourn
- 7:00pm: Reception and Dinner
The State Room, Top of 60 State Street
Dinner Speaker: Robert Kuttner, American Prospect, Columnist, BusinessWeek and Boston Globe, National Public Radio and Public Television
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DAY 2: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14
Charting the Pathways Forward
- 8:30 - 8:45am: Day One Recap and Day Two Objectives
- 8:45 - 10:15am: Plenary Session 4: Critical Issues in the Coming Decade Perspectives on selected issues within the broader agenda for transformational change.
Moderator: Aron Cramer, Business for Social Responsibility
Kent Greenfield, Boston College School of Law
Robert Monks, Corporate Library/Lens Governance Advisors
Steven Lydenberg, Domini Investments
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School
Jason Clay, WWF-US
Dialogue Facilitator: Peter Senge
- 1:45 - 2:45pm: Café-style Breakouts II (Hall at Parris)
Tables arranged by stakeholder groups. Discussion questions:
- Based on two days of dialogue, what issues have emerged as most pivotal to corporate transformation?
- What are 3-4 priority mid-term (3-5 year) and long-term (10+ year) goals for change?
- What are the mechanisms by which the specific stakeholder groups can organize to achieve the mid- and long-term goals?
- 3:00 - 3:30 pm: Plenary Session 6: Reflections on the Summit and Next Steps
Faneuil Hall
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*Draft agenda, subject to change
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