Conference on Risk Management Across Value Chains
November 30 - December 1, 2004
at the James L. Allen Center, at the Kellogg School of Management
Sponsored by The Zell Center for Risk Research

The upcoming Zell Center for Risk Research Conference, titled “Risk Management Across Value Chains,” will open on the evening of Tuesday, November 30, with a keynote address by Gary M. Bald, Assistant Director of Counter-terrorism for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. His speech will be followed by a reception at the James L. Allen Center, Kellogg’s executive conference center.

On Wednesday, December 1, there will be four panels, each with three or four participants. The participants will be comprised of leading members in the business community. Each panel will be moderated by a Kellogg senior faculty member and will last approximately one and one half hours. The audience for this conference will consist of members of the Chicago business community, area faculty, MBA students and executive education students.

Our academic directors for this conference, in addition to Donald P. Jacobs, Dean Emeritus and Director of the Zell Center for Risk Research, along with the preliminary panel titles, include:

Security in Global Business. Daniel Diermeier, who will moderate this panel, is the IBM Distinguished Professor of Regulation and Competitive Practice and the Director of the Center for Business, Government and Society.

Risk Management Across Supply Chains. Sunil Chopra, who will be the moderator, is the IBM Distinguished Professor of Operations, Management and Operations Systems, as well as Co-Director of the Master in Management in Manufacturing Program.

Slotting Allowances: Managing New Product Risk. The moderator is Robert C. Blattberg, Polk Brothers Professor of Retailing.

Risk in Transportation. The moderator is Aaron Gellman, former Director of the Transportation Center at Northwestern, and Professor of Management and Strategy and Industrial Engineering.