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LVMH - a world leader in iconic luxury brands - has established an environment in which creativity is valued, leveraged, and cultivated. This panel will bring visibility to how LVMH has established a corporate culture where creativity permeates the organization, and how this culture advances employee recruitment, retention, and overall success, not only of LVMH`s 100,000 staff members worldwide, but the corporation as a whole. Moderated by Wharton Dean Thomas S. Robertson, this panel includes Pauline Brown, WG`95, Chairman of North America, LVMH Inc., Chantal Gaemperle, Executive Vice President of Human Resources and Synergies, LVMH Group, and Pierre-Yves Roussel, WG`93, Chairman and CEO, LVMH Fashion Division.

During the past 20 years, it has become common practice for large companies to either accumulate a surplus of employees or to suffer a shortage. In attempting to address these inconsistencies, some organizations put on blinders - they exist from day to day, failing to develop strategic plans and using methods, such as traditional succession planning, that, by and large, are not applicable.

The contemporary approach to managing talent relies on being responsive to employees while reducing exposure to risk. To minimize risk and control cost, talent management can be approached by using the principles of supply chain management. This master class will examine the fundamental concepts that address supply-and-demand issues as they relate to talent management and support the establishment of a smooth, speedy, and efficient process with minimal risk.

In recent years, concepts such as "big data," "customer centricity," and "business analytics" have become increasingly important in the minds of senior managers, yet relatively few firms have the right HR/talent management infrastructure in place to properly embrace these notions within the organization.

This interactive workshop will focus on these "pros and cons" - as well as a host of other related issues - to help participants better understand how to build an analytics team and enable it to work effectively with other parts of the organization. Our experience with the Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative has provided a variety of "case studies" of this evolution in action. Participants will leave the session with a much clearer idea of what expectations they should have, and what directions to pursue, as they take on this new HR/talent management challenge.

The session begins with a short lecture on social capital theory, followed by an interactive exercise in which each participant applies the concepts presented in an exercise that focuses on asking one another for specific help. These requests can be about anything that matters - from developing a new business idea to discovering better child-rearing methods, and everything in between. Others ask clarifying questions with the intent of discovering how they can provide help in response, either directly or indirectly, to the request. Then each participant writes a note about how he or she can help each and every other participant. We then debrief this very practical exercise and draw insights about how to build one`s reputation as a leader and increase social capital by contributing to the success of other people, followed by a closing lecture on practical tips for diagnosing and cultivating one`s network.

Advances in cognitive neuroscience have broadened our understanding of the neural substrates of decision making. This research suggests that while most people associate strategy with rational thinking and other high-level functions of the brain, the best strategic thinkers actually show more activity in the parts of the brain linked with emotion and intuition.

How can we use the results of neuroscience research to improve our strategic reasoning and decision making skills? This master class will focus on how to incorporate in our work lives recent research on the role of values in decision making, the importance of intuition and emotional reasoning, and how individuals process risk and reward.

This session will start with a 6-person negotiation exercise. (Participants will prepare individually, then prepare and negotiate with their team of three, and then negotiate as a team with another team.) The exercise will take 90 minutes, and be followed by a debriefing that identifies key lessons about team-based negotiations.

Join us for this roundtable session where you will meet other innovators and entrepreneurs from the business community. This is an opportunity to cultivate a network of peers. It is also a chance to discuss the challenges and opportunities that innovators and entrepreneurs encounter in the business world. Learn from the wisdom of others while making new friends and professional contacts. Please sign up for this event onsite at the Wharton Booth located in the Jardin D`Hiver.

This roundtable is hosted by Professor John Kimberly, the Henry Bower Professor of Entrepreneurial Management and Executive Director of the Wharton/INSEAD Alliance.

During the past 20 years, it has become common practice for large companies to either accumulate a surplus of employees or to suffer a shortage. In attempting to address these inconsistencies, some organizations put on blinders - they exist from day to day, failing to develop strategic plans and using methods, such as traditional succession planning, that, by and large, are not applicable.

The contemporary approach to managing talent relies on being responsive to employees while reducing exposure to risk. To minimize risk and control cost, talent management can be approached by using the principles of supply chain management. This master class will examine the fundamental concepts that address supply-and-demand issues as they relate to talent management and support the establishment of a smooth, speedy, and efficient process with minimal risk.

In recent years, concepts such as "big data," "customer centricity," and "business analytics" have become increasingly important in the minds of senior managers, yet relatively few firms have the right HR/talent management infrastructure in place to properly embrace these notions within the organization.

This interactive workshop will focus on these "pros and cons" - as well as a host of other related issues - to help participants better understand how to build an analytics team and enable it to work effectively with other parts of the organization. Our experience with the Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative has provided a variety of "case studies" of this evolution in action. Participants will leave the session with a much clearer idea of what expectations they should have, and what directions to pursue, as they take on this new HR/talent management challenge.

Founding team and management team issues are often cited as one of the primary reasons that new start-ups fail. Assembling the team is an early challenge, but even with the right mix of skills and team members, many issues may arise due to differences in experience, perspectives, functions, and even generational gaps. This session addresses such gaps between team members, specifically in the context of launching an entrepreneurial start up.

Certainly, there are numerous successes that can be attributed to the introduction of a common currency in the European Union - simplification of cross-border trade, increased price transparency, integration of capital markets, convergence of interest rates, and a reduction of the costs of capital. However, experts also point to failures - disparate unit labor costs and competitiveness, fiscal divergences that are inconsistent with the common currency, and increasingly divergent economic performance.

Is the euro crisis a symptom of a larger disease afflicting most industrial countries? Is there a common theme that spans recent fiscal crises? How do countries cope with rising pension costs, increasing taxation, and aging populations? How do firms cope with these issues? Does the crisis provide new opportunities for reform?

This master class will examine these and other issues that impact not only the financial stability of countries within the EU, but the world at large. During this class, attendees will explore the pros and cons of potential solutions to the crisis - austerity and internal devaluation, debt restructuring, "Full Argentina," and fiscal union - and one alternative to these solutions: muddling along.

The increasingly complex and uncertain environment, the enormous advances in technology, and the associated increase in the segments of empowered consumers require creative leadership. This was clearly recognized in the IBM Global CEO study in which creative leadership, rethinking consumer relationships, and agile operations were the characteristics that best distinguished between successful and unsuccessful companies.

Creative leadership requires the creation of a creative organization. This session will outline and provide hands-on experience in understanding 10 principles for creating a creative organization.

Each participant will develop a plan for experimentation in the creation of a creative organization

Join us for this cocktail reception where you will meet other CEOs from Wharton. This is an opportunity to cultivate a network of peers. It is also a chance to discuss the challenges and opportunities that CEOs encounter in the business world. Learn from the wisdom of other CEOs, while making new friends and professional contacts. Please sign up for this event onsite at the Wharton Booth in the Winter Garden.

This reception will be hosted by Professor Jerry Wind, Lauder Professor and Academic Director of the Wharton Fellows Program.

Join us for this cocktail reception where you will meet other young alumni from Wharton. This is an opportunity to cultivate a network of peers. It is also a chance to discuss the challenges and opportunities that young alumni encounter in the business world. Learn from the wisdom of other young alumni, while making new friends and professional contacts. Please sign up for this event onsite at the Wharton Booth in the Jardin D`Hiver

This reception will be hosted by Kathryn Bezella, Director of Strategy & Internal Communications for the Office of the Vice Dean, Wharton MBA Division