Straight from the HBS Centennial Business Summit, Professor F. Warren McFarlan will discuss and answer your questions on: "Leading in Business and Beyond." Eat your lunch, listen, ask questions, multi-task, whatever...

The global Business Summit--Leading in Business and Beyond--is the culmination of the Centennial year for Harvard Business School alumni.  Join Professor F. Warren McFarlan, Global Business Summit Faculty Chair, and T.J. Dermot Dunphy, Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration, as he shares his thoughts on the seminal discussions of the summit around globalization, leadership and the future of market capitalism, as well as HBS' role in definging mangement education around these topics in the decades to come.

Professor McFarlan earned his AB from Harvard University in 1959, and his MBA and DBA from the Harvard Business School in 1961 and 1965 respectively.  He has had a significant role in introducing materials on Management Information Systems to all major programs at the Harvard Business School since the first course on the subject was offered in 1962.  he has been a long-time teacher in the Advanced Management Program: International Senior Managers Program, Delivering Information Services Program, and several of the Social Sector programs.  He currently teaches in the First Year Financial Reporting and Control course, and Second year MBA course "Doing Business in China in the Early 21st Century," as well as in several short Executive Education programs.

In 1973, shortly after his appointment to full professor he, along with four other faculty members, was sent to Switzerland to set up the School's International Senior Management Program.  He returned from Switzerland in 1975 to become Chairman of the Advanced Management Program, a position he held until 1978; and Chairman of all Executive Education programs from 1977-1980.  He was Senior Associate Dean and Director of Research from 1991 to 1995, Senior Associate Dean and Director of External Relations from 1995-2000, and Senior Associate Dean and Director of Asia Pacific from 1999-2004.

Professor McFarlan is the author of numerous articles and books, including Connecting the Dots coauthored with Cathleen Benko in 2003; and Seizing Strategic IT Advantage in China, coauthored with Professor Richard Nolan and Professor Guoqing Chen of Tsinghua University.  He is a member of several corporate and non-profit boards, serving for over ten years on hospital boards.

These lunchtime events--available to all HBS clubs worldwide--are only for paid members of Harvard Business School clubs and associations;  one of the continuing benefits of supporting the wide range of activities of the HBS African American Alumni Association. If you would like to become a member, do so on-line or if you need help with the website call 845-255-1319.

Friday, October 31