Plenary Panel Growth, Innovation and Sustainability

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1 Plenary Panel Growth, Innovation and Sustainability May 1 st Estoril Congress Centre (Main Auditorium) 14h45 16h30 Plenary Panel Growth, Innovation and Sustainability Chair: Ricardo Ernst (McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University) Esperanza Aguirre (former President of Madrid and of the Spanish Senate) Lotte Darsø (Innovation & Learning, Aarhus University) Rick Grobbee (University Medical Center, Utrecht) Toby Heaps (Founder and Director of Corporate Knights) George Yip (Centre on China Innovation at CEIBS) OVERVIEW Growth, Innovation, Sustainability: three words whose relationship is by no means trivial. Which one drives the others? Can growth exist without innovation? Is that sustainable? Innovate for sustainability or with sustainability? More recently sustainability has been identified as a core business strategy, with clear implications to enhance growth through increased revenue, profits and even brand value. As a study by Deloitte indicates: Organizations with a broader, more strategic plan for sustainability will not only drive innovation across their enterprise including transforming key processes but may also influence what their customers want and how their suppliers operate. In this session we will explore the meaning, relationship and implications of these three words when evaluated together. NOTES ON THE FORMAT OF THE SESSION Session Description Duration Plenary panels Panel with 6 speakers including one chair (also moderator). Each speaker has 5 minutes for a short initial speech (starting with the chair), followed by 75 minutes debate, including some questions by the audience. The chair of the panel will provide a short summary in the end. The speeches and debate should ideally address both global challenges and local answers. 105 minutes

2 Ricardo Ernst Dr. Ernst is a Professor of Operations and Global Logistics and the former Deputy Dean of the McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University. He holds a Civil Engineering degree from the Universidad Católica Andres Bello and an MBA from the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración, both in Venezuela. He received an MA degree and his Ph.D. in Operations Management from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include strategic analysis of logistics systems (supplier manufacturing distribution linkages) at both macro (strategic positioning of logistics, marketing/manufacturing interfaces) and micro level (models and methods of inventory control, inventory classification procedures). He has consulted with several national and international firms, including General Motors, Michelin, Rockwool, Casa Cuervo, FEMSA (Coca-Cola), Wal-Mart, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and The World Bank. He has been awarded the Outstanding Teacher Award for the International Executive MBA program, the Joseph F. Le Moine Award for Graduate and Undergraduate Teaching Excellence at Georgetown University, and the MBA Core Curriculum Award, at The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania. He has also been listed as one of the Best Professors by Business Week magazine. He is a frequent speaker in international conferences and executive seminars and has a weekly Editorial Commentary in CNN Spanish.

3 Esperanza Aguirre Gil de Biedma Aguirre was president of the Autonomous Community of Madrid from 2003 to She is the only woman who was president of the Senate of Spain and the first to have the Education and Culture folder of a Spanish government. Aguirre is a former member of Unión Liberal, Partido Liberal and Popular Alliance, which changed its name to Partido Popular (People's Party) in Since her early years she has been a member of the Club Liberal of Madrid. Aguirre is currently President of the Popular Party in Madrid.

4 Lotte Darsø Lotte Darsø is researcher, lecturer, consultant, and author. Her main areas of interest are innovation, creativity and artful approaches in educational and organizational settings. As one of Denmark's leading experts in creativity and innovation her distinct focus is on the 'human factor' and its significance for leading and succeeding with innovation. She is an acknowledged conference speaker and facilitator both nationally and internationally. Lotte Darsø is one of the founders of a European Executive Master program: Leadership and Innovation in Complex Systems ( It distinguishes itself from other MBA educations by a unique research-based learning approach and by having guest artists giving Master classes. In 2001 Lotte Darsø was awarded the industrial Ph.D. prize for her findings on how innovation is conceived, which was published in the book Innovation in the Making. In 2004 she published the groundbreaking book Artful Creation. Learning-Tales of Arts-in-Business. Lotte Darsø has written numerous papers and articles on creativity, innovation and Arts-in-Business. Her newest book on Innovation Pedagogy was published in 2011 and is presently being translated from Danish to English.

5 Rick Grobbee Professor Grobbee has been a principal investigator in many large scale epidemiologic studies and randomized trials of drug and dietary interventions for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. His experience covers the full range of epidemiologic study designs including clinical trials, cohorts and case-control studies. He has been teaching in Europe, the US, Asian and African countries and supervised over 120 PhD fellows. As CSO of Julius Clinical Research, an Academic Research Organization affiliated with the University Medical Center Utrecht, he directs late phase clinical trials in cardiovascular/metabolic and infectious diseases in over 30 countries. Most recently he initiated a global educational platform for educational exchange,

6 Toby Heaps Toby is the president and co-founder of Corporate Knights. He is a current board member of Friends of the Earth Canada and chairman of E3 Canadian Roundtables, a series of roundtables to define a Canadian energy strategy that will catalyze the country s clean energy superpower potential. Toby also sits on the board of The Natural Step, as well as the advisory board of the SASB (Sustainability Accounting Standards Board). He spearheaded the first global ranking of the world s 100 most sustainable corporations in Toby is a regular contributor to public debates in Canada and beyond about public policy and business responsibility, particularly related to environmental and developmental challenges. He authored a policy manifesto on how Canada could meet its Kyoto obligations and founded Option 13, a campaign for just global climate policies in the post-2012 era. After completing a Bachelor of Arts degree at McGill University in economics, with a minor in international development, Toby spent in the Belgrade Field Program (LLB in Management Studies) at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has been published in the Globe and Mail, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and Toronto Star, and is a regular guest speaker on CBC. Toby is committed to cleaning up capitalism with practical tools, intelligence, and insights so that markets work to make the world a better place.

7 GEORGE YIP Co-Director, Centre on China Innovation at the China Europe International Business School and Co- Executive Editor of Chinese Management Insights. Former Dean of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. Holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in economics from Cambridge University; and an MBA and doctorate from Harvard Business School. A native of Asia, he is a dual citizen of the United Kingdom and of the United States. George is one of the world's leading authorities on global strategy and marketing, managing global customers, and internationalization. His current research concerns management innovation, strategic transformation, international competitiveness, and global customers. George Yip was Vice President and Director of Research & Innovation at Capgemini Consulting, where he managed the research and innovation process to develop thought leadership for the company. He was previously Associate Dean and Professor of Strategic and International Management at London Business School, the Chair of Marketing and Strategy at Cambridge University, and has also held faculty positions at Harvard Business School and UCLA, and visiting positions at China-Europe International Business School, Georgetown University, Stanford Business School, and Templeton College-Oxford. George Yip is a Fellow of the Advanced Institute of Management Research, which is the UK s research initiative on management ( and a Fellow of the Academy of International Business.