Think Corporate Governance Is Irrelevant?  Think Again

Think Corporate Governance Is Irrelevant? Think Again

May 10, 2002

CANTERBURY, United Kingdom – Leadership today requires balancing the desire to do good with the business imperative to do well. Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management, the world leader in international business education, will examine issues in corporate social responsibility and the role it plays in corporate governance. Key leaders will present successful real-world practices that can be put to work immediately in your own

organisation.

The Thunderbird Global Business Forums bring together top-quality speakers from industry, government and education to address key global management issues and are produced each year in London, New York, Mexico City and Hong Kong.

The forum will be noon – 17:30 p.m. in the Institute of Directors Building, 116 Pall Mall. Cost is £125 and includes lunch and cocktail reception. For reservations or information, contact Beatrice Bernescut at +33 450 31 56 57

The half-day session will feature leaders in the area of corporate governance, including:

* Richard Greenhalgh, Chairman (UK), Unilever, speaking on “The Ripple Effect: How Local Actions Make a Global Citizen”

* Robert Davies, Chief Executive of the Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum, who will speak on “Leadership & Corporate Social Responsibility: Managing in a World of Risk and Opportunity”

* Professor Alyson Warhurst, University of Warwick, on the topic “Corporate Social responsibility: Window Dressing or Profit Planning?”

* Andre Baladi, Co-founder, International Corporate Governance Network, on the subject of “Responsibility to Investors”

For full details and registration information, please go to

http://www.t-bird.edu/xp/Thunderbird/alumni/alumni_prog_serv/life_learn/tbir

d_global_forums/tbstbird_euro.xml or contact Beatrice Bernescut.