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Keynote Speakers
Conference Theme Plenary, June 28, 8:15-9:45, Grande Ballroom C
Gary Hamel
Visiting Professor of Strategic and International Management, London Business
School and Director, the Management Lab
The Wall Street Journal recently ranked Gary Hamel as the world’s most influential business
thinker, and Fortune magazine has called him “the world’s leading expert on business
strategy.”
Hamel’s landmark books, Leading the Revolution and Competing for the Future, have
appeared on every management bestseller list and have been translated into more than
20 languages. His latest book, The Future of Management, was published by the Harvard
Business School Press in October 2007 and was selected by Amazon.com as the best business
book of the year. Over the past twenty years, Hamel has authored 15 articles for the Harvard
Business Review and is the most reprinted author in the Review’s history. He has also written for the Wall Street
Journal, Fortune, The Financial Times and many other leading publications around the world.
Since 1983, Hamel has been on the faculty of the London Business School where he is currently Visiting Professor
of Strategic and International Management. At present, Hamel is leading an effort to build the world’s first
“Management Lab.” The MLab is a pioneering attempt to create a setting in which progressive companies and
world renowned management scholars work together to co-create “tomorrow’s best practices” today. The goal:
to radically accelerate the evolution of management knowledge and practice.
Hamel is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum and the Strategic Management Society. He lives in Northern
California.
Randall Morck
Stephen A. Jarislowsky Distinguished Chair in Finance, University of Alberta
Randall Morck holds the Stephen A. Jarislowsky Distinguished Chair in Finance at the University
of Alberta School of Business, where he also holds the rank of University Professor. He is also a
Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts
and a Senior Research Associate with Harvard Law School’s Labor and Worklife Program. He
graduated summa cum laude from Yale in 1979, and earned a PhD from Harvard in 1986, to which
he returns periodically as a visiting professor.
He has published over 70 articles on corporate governance, corporate ownership, and corporate
finance in academic journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Journal
of International Business Studies, and Journal of Financial Economics. His research papers include
some of the first systematic investigations of corporate governance, and are cited in more than 1,600 other
research papers. Professor Morck has served as a consultant to the Canadian and U.S. governments, the World
Bank, and the International Monetary Fund on corporate governance and other economic issues. He is a frequent
speaker at academic, business, and government seminars and conferences in Canada and abroad.
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