October 5, 2006

Local corporate officials gather for leadership forum Oct. 6-8

The Northwestern Undergraduate Business Council will hold its annual Northwestern Leadership Forum Oct. 6 through Oct. 8 at the McCormick Tribune Center on Northwestern’s Evanston campus.

The forum features keynote speakers David Devonshire, chief financial officer of Motorola; Deborah DeHaas, vice-chairman and regional managing partner at Deloitte & Touche; and Harry Kraemer, former chief executive officer of Baxter International, executive partner of Madison Dearborn Partners.

Panel topics include “Leadership in the Global Arena,” “Managing Technological Innovations,” “Social Responsibility of Business Leaders” and Opportunities in Global Financial Markets.”

The conference will address the challenges and opportunities of a changing business world by bridging the efforts of the Kellogg School of Management faculty and Northwestern’s undergraduate business groups.

The Northwestern Undergraduate Business Council is a coordinating group that works with all the business-related student groups on campus. For more information about the organization contact the group’s chair Haimu Sun at <h-sun3@northwestern.edu>.

For more information about the forum visit < http://groups.northwestern.edu/nubc>.