HiT Barcelona
16-17 JUNE 2010 - FIRA DE BARCELONA - The global gathering where innovation drives the futurehttp://folcomuns.firabcn.es/S092/HiT%20Angl%C3%A8s.pdfMail
Plenary Congress
Speakers
Rosabeth Moss Kanter Innovation & Strategy-
Rosabeth Moss Kanter is the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor at Harvard Business School, where she specializes in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. Former Editor of Harvard Business Review, she has been named to the lists of the "50 most powerful women in the world" (Times of London), and the "50 most influential business thinkers in the world" (Accenture and Thinkers 50 research).
Kanter wrote 17 books, including The Change Masters, Men & Women of the Corporation, When Giants Learn to Dance, World Class: Thriving Locally in the Global Economy and the most recent Confidence: How Winning Streaks & Losing Streaks Begin & End, a New York Times business and #1 Business Week bestseller. Her 18th book, due to appear next year under the tentative title The Vanguard: How Principle-Led Companies are Changing the World of Business, elaborates on her latest ideas on business transformation and innovation.
She has received 22 honorary doctoral degrees, as well as numerous leadership awards and prizes, among them the Academy of Management's Distinguished Career Award and was named "Intelligent Community Visionary of the Year" by the World Teleport Association.
She chairs a Harvard University group creating an innovative initiative on advanced leadership, to help successful leaders at the top of their professions transition to applying their skills to addressing challenging national and global problems.
Ray Kurzweil Innovation & the Future -
Hailed "a restless genius" by The Wall Street Journal, Ray Kurzweil is one of the best known and most provocative thinkers on technology's future impact. A recipient of the Lemelson-MIT Prize - the world's most prestigious for innovation -and the National Medal of Technology, Kurzweil is a National Inventors Hall of Fame inductee. His most recent book is The Singularity Is Near, a New York Times best seller, and has been the #1 book on Amazon in both science and philosophy. His other books include The Age of Spiritual Machines (which has been translated into 9 languages and was the #1 best selling book on Amazon in science), The Age of Intelligent Machines, and Fantastic Voyage.
With 13 honorary doctorates and an eclectic career, Inc. magazine ranked him #8 among entrepreneurs in the United States; PBS included him as one of 16 "revolutionaries who made America", and TIME Magazine has compared him to Thomas Edison "for his propensity of combining science with practical-often humanitarian–applications".
Gary Hamel Innovation & Management -
Gary Hamel has been called "the world's leading strategy expert on business strategy" by Fortune magazine and "the world's reigning strategy guru" by The Economist. The Journal of Business Strategy listed Hamel as one of the 20th century's most influential business thinkers. His ground-breaking concepts have transformed business strategies and management practices around the world.
Hamel's landmark books, Competing for the Future - written with C.K. Prahalad - and Leading the Revolution have been translated into more than 25 languages and are global best sellers. Competing for the Future was Business Week's Book of the Year, and has become the best selling book ever on business strategy. The Future of Management is his latest book.
His fifteen articles for the Harvard Business Review have made Hamel the most reprinted author in the history of the magazine. He has written three cover stories for Fortune magazine, and numerous articles for the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Fast Company, Business 2.0, CIO magazine and many other professional and academic journals.
As a consultant he has worked with General Electric, Time Warner, Nokia, Shell, Nestlé, Procter & Gamble, 3M, Microsoft and IBM amongst many others. He is also a visiting professor of strategic and international management at the London Business School, where he is currently leading an effort to build the world's first Management Innovation Lab. He is a fellow of the World Economic Forum and the Strategic Management Society.
Vijay Govindarajan Innovation & Execution -
Vijay Govindarajan is widely regarded as one of the world's leading experts on strategy and innovation, one of the outstanding thought-leaders of the new generation, according to The Wall Street Journal and Business Week. Professor of International Business and Founding Director of the Center for Global Leadership at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, he has been recently invited by Jeff Immelt, chairman and CEO of General Electric, to become Professor-in-Residence and Chief Innovation Consultant for the company. Boeing, Coca-Cola, Colgate, Deere, FedEx, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, J.P. Morgan Chase, Johnson & Johnson, New York Times, Procter & Gamble, Sony, and Wal-Mart, among other have also sought his advice.
He has published seven books, including the international best seller Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators, named by Strategy & Business the Best Strategy Book of 2006 and ranked by the Wall Street Journal as a Top Ten Recommended Read. His articles have appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review; Strategic Management Journal; Harvard Business Review; California Management Review; and MIT Sloan Management Review.
VG received his doctorate and his MBA with distinction from the Harvard Business School, where he was included in the Dean's Honor List. He received his Chartered Accountancy degree in India where he was awarded the President's Gold Medal for obtaining the first rank nationwide. He has also been named to a series of lists by influential publications including: Outstanding Faculty and Top Ten Business School Professor in Corporate Executive Education, by Business Week - which features Govindarajan as one of the "superstar" management thinkers from India; Top Five Most Respected Executive Coach on Strategy, by Forbes; and Top 50 Management Thinker, by The London Times.
Michael Eisner Innovation & Talent Management -
Michael Eisner was CEO of The Walt Disney Company from 1984 to 2005, reinventing Disney during his tenure. He betted on the power of ideas, adopted an innovative vision and took creative risks. As a result, he turned an animation studio with a couple of thematic parks into an entertainment global giant worth more than $ 50,000 millions.
Eisner begun his career in the '70s at ABC, and as Senior Vice President he led the network from its long-lasting third place among the TV giants to the undoubted first place. He did it again at Paramount Pictures when he became President in 1977. With blockbusters such as Raiders of the Lost Ark, Saturday Night Fever, Ordinary People and Terms of Endearment he took the company to number one in box office and profitability.
Eisner is the author of Work in Progress - co-authored with Tony Schwartz - about his involvement in the entertainment industry, and Camp about leadership lessons you can learn as part of a canoe expedition or a summer camp. He serves on the boards of the California Institute of Arts and the Aspen Institute, among others and he is member of The Business Council.