2005 fall speakers

Introduction to Fall Speaker Series
Tuesday, September 27, 630p, G40

Speakers: Professors and Students

Faculty and student discussion followed by dinner with second years.

Social Entrepreneurship
Tuesday, October 11, 630P, G40

Speaker: Michael Diamond, President, World Resources Chicago
Student Speaker: Hadar Kramer
Readings:Moving Beyond Compassion Fatigue, John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Speech, Rules for Radicals
Optional Reading: Michael will be addressing some concepts from the following books. These books may be of interest to you after Michael’s lecture:
1) Rules for Radicals, by Saul Alinsky
2) Everybody's Business, by Adrian Hodges, David Grayson

Can you still do good by doing well? Balancing humanitarianism and business in today's global society.
Michael Diamond is the President of World Resources Chicago, a consulting firm in Chicago which helps businesses and organizations respond to global challenges and opportunities. Previously, he was the Executive Director of The Global Chicago Center of The Chicago Council on Foreign Relations. For more than 25 years, Michael worked with refugee, rehabilitation and social and economic development programs around the world. For ten years, he was the Division Manager of Humanitarian Programs of The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International and in that capacity he managed PolioPlus, Rotary’s global program to eradicate polio. For 15 years he worked with the international YMCA and lived in Bangladesh, Switzerland and finally came to Chicago. In this work he has visited over 45 countries and has worked with people in over 150 countries. He received his M.A. in Medical/Social Anthropology from the New School for Social Research in New York.

International Development
Tuesday, October 18, 630p, G40

Kaia Miller, President, Aslan Global
Student Speaker: Andrew Youn

Emigrant Networks: A Fresh Look at National Economic Development Strategies

Kaia Miller is founder of Aslan Global, Inc., a Boston-based consulting firm advising diasporas, governments, and private sector organizations in developing economies on competitiveness and economic development. She spent several years working with the Cambridge-based consulting firm The Monitor Group as a leader in its Country Competitiveness Practice and co-founded the spin-out ontheFRONTIER (now The OTF Group) in 2000 before founding Aslan Global, Inc. in 2001. She collaborates frequently with Professor Michael Porter and the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard University. Kaia has advised public and private sector leaders in Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Middle East on issues related to competitiveness and economic development. Specifically, she has worked with entrepreneurs in dozens of industries to develop export strategies and global business networks. She has examined the government and private sector roles in building competitiveness, as well as the potential role of a country’s diaspora. She has also worked with several countries on defining, building support for, and implementing their national visions for creating prosperity.

Kaia has developed and taught several seminars on economic competitiveness and business strategy, and is regularly invited to speak about competitiveness, diaspora networks and economic development. She served as adjunct professor and member of the Executive Committee at the Master of Science in Foreign Service Program at Georgetown University and is author of “Emigrant Community Networks: An Underutilized Opportunity for Developing Countries,” and “Prosperity Creators: Listening to Businesspeople in Developing Countries.” She has collaborated with Professor Michael Porter on several case studies on competitiveness and clusters.

Kaia received her B.A. in International Relations from Brown University and her M.Sc. in International Relations from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown.

Non Profit Operational Effectiveness
Tuesday, October 25, 630p, G40

Michael Mulqueen, Executive Director, GCFD
Student Speaker: TBD
Readings: Food Depository, Hunger Study, New Facility Fact Sheet

Greater Chicago Food Depository (GCFD): Applying highly efficient operations to strengthen the network that feeds the hungry.

Mike assumed the leadership of the Greater Chicago Food Depository in September 1991 immediately upon his retirement as a Brigadier General after 30 years of service in the United States Marine Corps. As Executive Director, Mike has worked diligently to address the needs of hungry men, women and children throughout Chicago and Cook County. He has utilized his negotiation and interpersonal skills to create innovative new services such as the fresh produce and delivery programs and to foster public and private partnerships. Under his leadership the Food Depository has grown to become one of the largest food banks in the United States. He supervises a staff of 91 and a corps of 8,000 volunteers who distributed more than 42 million pounds of food in FY2002-03 to a network of 600 food pantries, shelters, day care centers, senior facilities and soup kitchens. Mike has created a greater awareness of hunger and poverty issues in Chicago and implemented programs to provide help and hope where it is most urgently needed. He is a featured speaker, panelist and sought-after spokesman on the subject of feeding the hungry. He also is a director of the Armed Forces Council of Chicago, Rotary One, the USO of Illinois and the Great Lakes Naval Museum Association, and a member of the Economic Club, the National Strategy Forum and the Union League Club. FSB: Fortune Small Business named Mike one of the country’s “Best Bosses” for small businesses in October 2003. He was also featured in Fast Company magazine (September 2003), Time (May 2004), BusinessWeek (May 2005) and was named a “Chicagoan of the Year” by Chicago magazine in 2005.
Mike earned a B.A. in History from Fordham University and a M.S. in Guidance and Counseling from Troy State University . Mike’s personal decorations include a Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star Medal with Combat “V,” the Meritorious Service Medal with gold star in lieu of a second award, and the Navy Achievement Medal. He has a daughter, Alissa, a son, Brian, and six grandchildren.

Innovative Education
Tuesday, November 1, 630p, G40

Preston Kendall, Vice President, Cristo Rey Network
Student Speaker: TBD
Readings: 60 Minutes, Accomplishments, CIP

Cristo Rey Network:Transferring Urban America One Student at a Time

Preston Kendall, Vice President for Work-Study and Administration of the Cristo Rey Network, is responsible for training and managing the work-study directors at the 11 operating Cristo Rey schools as well as assisting schools with general finance and administrative issues. He served as the Executive Vice President of Cristo Rey Jesuit High School from its inception in January of 1996 through December 31, 2003. Preston implemented and fine-tuned the school’s unique work-study program, which has become the model for all of the schools in the Cristo Rey Network. In addition to his duties at Cristo Rey, since interest in the model increased during the 1999-2000 school year, Preston has met with dozens of groups from around the country and internationally who are interested in the work-study or Corporate Internship Program.

Business and its Environment
Tuesday, November 8, 630p, G40

Yvon Chouinard , CEO, Patagonia

Patagonia : Let my People go Surfing, The Education of a Reluctant Businessman

Yvon Chouinard is founder and owner of Patagonia, Inc., based in Ventura, California. He began in business by designing, manufacturing, and distributing rock climbing equipment in the late 1950’s. His tinkering led to an improved ice axe that facilitated the French ice climbing technique and is the basis for modern ice axe design. In 1964 he produced his first mail order catalog, a one page mimeographed sheet containing advice not to expect fast delivery during climbing season. Business grew slowly until 1972 when Yvon added rugby shirts to his catalog and his clothing business took off.

In the late 1980’s, Patagonia’s success was such that Yvon considered early retirement. In some ways he would have preferred to disappear into the South Pacific with his fly rod and surfboard. However, he decided to continue directing Patagonia’s course, in part to use the company to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis. As part of this goal, Patagonia instituted an Earth Tax, pledging 1% of sales to the preservation and restoration of the natural environment. In 2001, Yvon, along with Craig Mathews, owner of West Yellowstone’s Blue Ribbon Flies, started One Percent For The Planet, an alliance of businesses that contribute at least 1 percent of their net annual sales to groups on a list of researched and approved environmental organizations.

Yvon spends much of his time in the outdoors and serving on the boards of numerous environmental groups. “I work every day of my life. My job is to be the ‘outside’ man, studying lifestyles around the world, coming up with ideas for new products, new market trends, seeing that Patagonia stays relevant in a rapidly changing world.”