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Ivey forum addresses the ‘make vs. buy'
dilemma
LONDON,
ON, May 13, 2009 – A common hurdle
for companies in the race for talent is
whether to sink efforts into recruiting
the best and brightest or to develop
them within.
Glenn Rowe,
Associate Professor of Strategic
Management and the Paul MacPherson Chair
in Strategic Leadership at the Richard
Ivey School of Business, and Tim
Hodgson, CEO of Goldman Sachs Canada,
will discuss the pros and cons of "make
versus buy" at an upcoming Ivey Idea
Forum.
"Finding
Your Next Top Talent: Perspectives on
transferring leadership and developing
stars" will be held on Wednesday, May
20, 8-9:30 a.m., at Ivey Business
School's ING Leadership Centre in
Toronto.
Rowe will
discuss transferring talent. He'll draw
from his recent research on why General
Electric Co. has had success
developing more talent than it needs and
funnelling its employees to other firms.
He'll also provide examples of
professional athletes, sports managers,
coaches and captains who shifted between
teams and, likewise, stock analysts who
moved from one investment bank to
another.
Hodgson
will complement the presentation by
sharing his personal experiences
developing talent versus hiring it
externally. Goldman Sachs has a long
tradition of producing leaders through
formal training and on-the-job learning.
"One of the
biggest challenges for companies is to
create a high-performance team," said
Rowe. "Companies can certainly buy
talent, but considerable thought has to
go into where to get talent that's a
good fit for the team and how to
integrate it."
The event
is part of the Ivey Idea Forum: A
Cross-Enterprise Leadership Series,
which provides executives, Ivey alumni,
business students and prospective
students with guest speakers and events
to develop cross-enterprise leadership
thinking on key business issues.
Event:
"Finding Your Next Top Talent" with
Glenn Rowe and Tim Hodgson
Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Time: 8-9:30 a.m. (Breakfast at
7:30 a.m.)
Location: Ivey ING Leadership
Centre, The Exchange Tower, 130 King
Street West, Toronto, Ontario
To purchase
tickets, please contact Ashleigh Nimigan
at 519-850-2999,
animigan@ivey.uwo.ca or click here:
Purchase tickets
For more
information, please visit:
The Ivey Idea Forum Web site.
Media
interested in attending, please contact
Dawn Milne at 519-850-2536,
dmilne@ivey.ca
About the Richard Ivey School of
Business, The University of Western
Ontario
The Richard Ivey School of Business at
The University of Western Ontario (www.ivey.ca)
offers undergraduate (HBA)
and graduate degree programs (MBA,
Executive MBA and
PhD) in addition to non-degree
Executive Development programs. Ivey has
campuses in London (Ontario),
Toronto, and Hong Kong. Ivey
recently redesigned its curriculum to
focus on
Cross-Enterprise Leadership – a
holistic issues-based approach to
management education that meets the
demands of today's complex global
business world.
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For more
information, please contact:
Dawn Milne, Communications Specialist,
Richard Ivey School of Business,
519-850-2536,
dmilne@ivey.ca
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