Original Press Release

Senior Leadership Series provides new international opportunity for boards and senior executives

Duisenberg school of finance, Cambridge Judge Business School and Rotterdam School of Management today announce their partnership to organise the Senior Leadership Series. The Series will offer small group meetings, designed for international senior business leaders and experts to share experiences, exchange insights from the latest in current research, and discuss the key issues for their organisations. The Series will also host related seminars that are open to the public. Seminars and small group sessions will alternate between Cambridge and the Netherlands.

The first event of the Series, which will take place in Amsterdam on 10 June 2010, is a public seminar by renowned futurist Peter Schwartz on “Volcanoes, Black Swans and Financial Crises: Can Scenario Analysis Help to Manage Risk More Effectively?” Subsequent small group sessions and seminars will explore themes of leadership, governance, and global challenges.

Dr Mia de Kuijper, Dean of External Relations and Executive Education of Duisenberg school of finance, said: “With this partnership and this Series, the Duisenberg school of finance is looking forward to further enhance the international excellence of our programmes for leaders and future leaders in finance. In the current environment of change and uncertainty, effective leadership is of critical importance for institutions’ long-term success.”

Professor Peter Williamson, Professor of International Management at Cambridge Judge Business School, added: “This Series will help executives escape from their ‘in-box’ and consider key issues and opportunities in these times of change and uncertainty where new leadership is required, to keep them abreast of cutting edge insights, and to develop effective long-term strategy. We are delighted to combine knowledge and expertise with Duisenberg school of finance and Rotterdam School of Management across borders.”

Professor Hans van Oosterhout, Professor of Corporate Governance and Responsibility at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, said: “We are fortunate and excited to be able to welcome well-known international speakers from academia as well as from among corporate leaders. I strongly believe that the combination of both corporate speakers, who can share their view from the trenches, and academic speakers, who can share their evidence based view of what actually works and what not, is a unique selling point of this series.”

Professor Jaap Winter, Professor of Corporate Governance at Duisenberg school of finance and partner of de Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, added:” This series will challenge and assist boards and executives to develop their own approach to sound governance.”

Notes for Editors

1. Cambridge Judge Business School

   Cambridge Judge Business School is internationally recognised as one of the leading providers of innovative, intellectually challenging and practical business management education across a portfolio of undergraduate, graduate and executive programmes. As a fully integrated department of a world renowned university, Cambridge Judge Business School hosts one of the largest concentrations of interdisciplinary business and management research activity in Europe.

   Built on an ethos of collaboration, the School is a unique place where policy makers, regulators, industry leaders, not for profit organisations, entrepreneurs and academics can meet, interact and share ideas. Cambridge Judge Business School delivers business education for the 21st networked economy, fostering collaborative leadership skills, developing communities of partners to meet the challenges of the new global business landscape.

   Ranked 21st in the 2010 FT Global Rankings of business schools, 11th in The Economist’s full-time MBA Global MBA Rankings, and 3rd in the 2009 biennial Forbes Global Rankings for one year MBA programmes, the Cambridge MBA sits alongside the very best in the world.

2. Duisenberg school of finance

   Duisenberg school of finance was founded by the Dutch financial sector with the purpose of educating financial leaders and prospective financial leaders. Duisenberg school distinguishes itself from other universities by offering financially specialised academic expertise of the highest level with a practical orientation. Find out more »

3. Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University

   Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University is consistently ranked amongst the top 10 business schools in Europe and among the top 30 worldwide. It is located in the international port city of Rotterdam, where core Dutch values of openness, flexibility and acceptance of diversity have attracted businesses on a global scale. The School’s emphasis is on groundbreaking research and practices relevant to business; their primary focus is on developing business leaders who carry their innovative ideas into a sustainable future. The School’s portfolio includes a broad array of bachelor, master, doctoral, MBA and executive education programmes. Find out more »

Contact

For more information, please contact:

Judith Kohsiek
Duisenberg school of finance
+31 (0) 20 525 85 77
judith.kohsiek@dsf.nl

Wim Assink, editor of Banking review, wrote a great review of Profit Power Economics on his blog here.

Here is the English translation courtesy of Google Translate (original is in Dutch):

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Finding a clear strategic direction is a growing challenge for companies. The traditional economic models still useful in a society growing and dynamic energy alliance? End of 2009 appeared “Private Power Economics” with the intriguing subtitle “A New Competitive Strategy for Creating Sustainable Wealth”. No sloppy book about sustainability, but a refreshing vision of the new economic force that creates opportunities for companies and their environment to achieve sustainable prosperity. Each driver would be inspirational book to read, if only because it challenges to the strategies to test. I agree with the author Dr. Mia de Kuijper following its presentation in the ING House and try to seduce her to translate her findings into Dutch financial institutions.

The central theme of the book is that companies are moving into an economy where more and more information becomes available. This makes markets more transparent so they can work more efficiently. Suitable clients are easier to find and price levels are transparent. People and businesses can easily inform and organize. For meetings we do not have to come together and communication is via internet and mobile phones easier. Making choices is thus considerably easier. On the other hand, there is so much information available that it becomes increasingly difficult to achieve genuine individual choices. You see that people their choices partly influenced by opinions of others. With the increased interconnectedness between people and this changes the decision changes ultimately the entire operation of the modern economic paradigm “powerlaw marketplaces” like De Kuijper calls. Examples include initiatives such as where people zoover.nl iens.nl or opinions of others into account in their decisions to a particular restaurant or holiday. The consequences can be dramatic turn out, as in the aftermath of Icesave and DSB.

Porter’s ideas are drawn to the modern society. The information-intensive financial sector are enormous implications. In the next edition of Banking Review published an interview with Mia de Kuijper. From mid-April this can be downloaded from the website. Join the strategic choices that Dutch financial institutions are confronted with.

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Recent alumni of Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, please join us in Cambridge on the morning of Alumni Day for breakfast and a stimulating shot of economic power!

Featuring economist and GSAA Council member Mia de Kuijper, PhD ‘83, discussing the new economy now emerging from the global financial crisis.

Business Week called de Kuijper’s new book, *Profit Power Economics*, “a stimulating read, whether you are a business manager or someone trying to figure out the best career path.” Attend the breakfast and get a copy to take home with you!

De Kuijper will talk about her own career path, too. She’s worked with Royal Dutch Shell, AT&T, PepsiCo, Credit Suisse First Boston, Morgan Stanley, the Global Business Network, and Bain & Co, among others. She’s now the CEO of de Kuijper Global Partners and a dean of the Duisenberg School of Finance, Amsterdam.

So join us for a breakfast gathering just for recent alumni! And stay for Alumni Day, with a morning keynote by Dr. Paul Farmer, whose Partners in Health has done such inspiring work in Haiti.

8-9:30 a.m., April 10, 2010

Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street

Great article/interview on Reuters!

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate-uk/2010/03/09/a-brave-new-google-ized-world/

Review of Mia’s Profit Power Economics in Booz&Co.’s Strategy+Business.