Best-selling author of The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, Clayton Christensen, will address the Marriott School’s sixth annual Management Conference 22-24 June. Christensen, a Harvard Business School professor, will discuss how listening to customers and good management may cause companies to fail when faced with disruptive technology. Such technologies have the potential to seriously impact some of today’s strongest institutions — including Bell Atlantic, Toyota and Intel.
Nearly twenty other business experts will present thought-provoking issues centered on the conference theme of “Leadership for the Next Century.” The event offers a new accounting emphasis as well as training in pressing business, ecommerce, international trade, entrepreneurship, and business moral and ethical issues. Addressing these themes are general session speakers Gary Crittenden, Monsanto chief financial officer; Sheri Dew, second counselor in the Relief Society General Presidency and executive vice president of publishing for Deseret Book Company; Linda and Richard Eyre, business consultants, authors and lecturers; Stephen W. Hansen, retired executive vice president and director of human resources of Wells Fargo; Henry Marsh, Olympic athlete, author and lecturer; and Kay Whitmore, retired chair, president, and CEO of Eastman Kodak Company.
A banquet with guest speaker Elder David Sorenson of the presidency of the Seventy will be Thursday evening. A barbeque will be held early Friday evening. Saturday the conference will conclude with a golf tournament at Thanksgiving Point. For those bringing children, teen and preteen programs featuring Especially for Youth speakers, a special pre-showing of the new North American Museum of Ancient Life at Thanksgiving Point, and other exciting events are planned.
Space is limited, and early registration is recommended. The conference will be held at the Harman Conference Center on the Brigham Young University campus in Provo, Utah. Fees are $275 per person and $205 for spouses. Discounts are available to groups of ten or more adults. Teen, preteen, and nursery programs are $110 per person. Meals are included in all registration fees.
For additional information and to register for the conference, call (801) 378-4853, go to the web at: http://ce.byu.edu/cw/prodev/, fax registration form(s), including credit card information to (801) 378-6361, or mail the completed form(s) with payment to: Brigham Young University, Conferences and Workshops, 136 Harman Building, Provo, Utah 84602-1516.
The Marriott School is part of BYU, the largest privately-owned, church-sponsored university in the United States. The school has nationally ranked programs in accounting, business management, organizational behavior, and entrepreneurship. The mission of the Marriott School is to attract and develop men and women of faith, character, and professional ability who will become outstanding managers and leaders throughout the world. Approximately 5,000 students are enrolled in the Marriott School’s graduate and undergraduate programs.
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Writer: Jenny Stathis (801) 378-1152