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Masters Series

Now in its fourteenth year, the Masters Series features world-renowned experts in the field of management sciences. These senior-level programs are open to all attendees. Offered Monday and Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning, these two-hour educational sessions offer insight into the HR profession from thought-leaders and academicians.

Sponsored by:

Linda A. Hill, Ph.D.

Monday, June 23, 1:45 p.m.–3:45 p.m.

 

Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Area at the Harvard Business School. She is the author of Power and Influence Customized Course Module, and Becoming a Manager: How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership (2nd Edition). Professor Hill’s consulting and executive education activities have been in the areas of managing change, managing inter-functional relationships, globalization, career management, and leadership development. Hill is currently writing a book on the challenges of leading in emerging markets. Organizations with which Hill has worked include Cabot Corporation, General Electric, IBM, Molex International, the National Bank of Kuwait, and Morgan Stanley.

Professor Hill is currently working on two projects: leading in emerging markets, and leadership as collective genius (in which she explores the relationship between leadership, creativity and agility).

Oren Harari, Ph.D.

Tuesday, June 24, 1:45 p.m.–3:45 p.m.

 

An incredibly popular speaker and author, Dr. Oren Harari’s energetic, dynamic presentations excite and challenge audiences around the world with insight, humor and knowledge. Dr. Harari brings provocative, new perspectives on competitive advantage, organizational change and transformational leadership. His most recent book, Break From the Pack: How to Compete in a Copycat Economy, shows leaders how to propel their organizations to a position of uniqueness and competitive advantage in a tough marketplace where, increasingly, vendors see that their products and services are becoming imitated and commoditized at an accelerating pace. He shows audiences how to lead beyond customers’ current expectations—to a place they thought was previously impossible—by constantly surveying the horizon.

Denise M. Rousseau, Ph.D.

Wednesday, June 25, 10:00 a.m.–Noon

 

Professor Rousseau is the H. J. Heinz II Professor of Organizational Behavior and Public Policy at the Heinz School of Public Policy and Management; and, jointly, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pa.

 

A two-time winner of the Academy of Management’s George Terry Award for best management book, Rousseau’s most recent book, I-Deals: Idiosyncratic Deals Workers Bargain for Themselves, won the Terry Award in 2006. Rousseau’s research focuses upon the impact workers have on the employment relationship and the firms that employ them. It informs critical concerns such as worker well-being and career development, organizational effectiveness, the management of change, firm ownership and governance, and industrial relations.