Chicago GSB Alumni Club – Strategic Management Practices Issues Group

Chicago Booth Alumni Club of Chicago

October 17, 2008: 7:30 AM - 8:45 AM

Start your Friday morning by updating your MBA, discussing the latest management concepts, sharing insights with fellow GSB alums, extending your network and still make it to the office by 9 AM. Our October 17 meeting will focus on the link between customer loyalty and growth. You can download the article for free at: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/wsj/insight/pdfs/49414.pdf, and a short summary is available at: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/smr/issue/2008/summer/14/. Some of our past topics have included: closing the gap between strategy and execution, participative management, innovation, how successful leaders think, leadership and behavioral economics. These discussion sessions are designed to provide a highly interactive, engaging forum of particular value to alumni responsible for developing, influencing or executing enterprise strategies and policies. The Strategic Business Practices Issue Group consists of a series of monthly small group discussions bringing a practical focus to current research in business strategy, organizational design, and general management practices. This group is all about participation and making connections while learning about the latest management concepts. A differentiating feature of this group is the focus on engaging member dialogue while creating community and connectedness across the members. (There is no invited speaker or formal presentation.) The facilitated discussion starts with reactions to a selected background reading (available online from a leading strategy, business, or academic publication) before branching out into a broader exploration of the topic as participants share their own personal and practical experience of what works, what doesn’t, and how to tell the difference.

Where

CharterMast Partners LLC
11 South LaSalle Street
Chicago, Illinois

Event Details

Our October 17 meeting will focus on the link between customer loyalty and growth. You can download the article for free at: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/wsj/insight/pdfs/49414.pdf, and a short summary is available at: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/smr/issue/2008/summer/14/. Some of our past topics have included: closing the gap between strategy and execution, participative management, innovation, how successful leaders think, leadership and behavioral economics. Each month we explore the topic through a facilitated discussion of an article which is available free or at a nominal cost from a leading business publication. Our past topics have included: closing the gap between strategy and execution, participative management, innovation, how successful leaders think, leadership and behavioral economics. Future articles will explore additional areas of strategy. Suggestions for future articles or future topics are welcome. Please send your information to strategyig@chicagogsbclub.org.

Cost

No Charge

Registration

Register Online
Include your email address when registering. It is needed for the email confirmations which will be provided on or before October 15. If you need to cancel, email Dennis Aust at dennis.aust@chartermast.com so that we may give your seat to someone else.

Deadline: 10/14/2008

Questions

Dennis Aust 

312.224.8509

Other Information

If you need to cancel, email Dennis Aust at dennis.aust@chartermast.com. In order provide sufficient opportunity for everyone to participate, attendance is strictly limited to 20 people. If this event is oversubscribed, priority will be given to GSB Alumni Club members who RSVP before October 10. Please feel free to bring coffee and/or breakfast to enjoy during the discussion.