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IU BUSINESS CONFERENCE FEB. 23
TO FOCUS ON EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - How can companies and their employees keep wired into an accelerating and frenzied marketplace where information often is both the currency and product? Three people with a demonstrated expertise in technology-driven change will provide their insights Feb. 23 in Indianapolis at the 53rd annual conference of the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.
Robert A. Lutz, chief executive of Exide Corp. and Chrysler Corp.'s president from 1991 to 1998; Laura D'Andrea Tyson, a former key economic adviser to President Bill Clinton who now heads the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley; and John M. Deutch, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, will each discuss how companies can take full advantage of the technological superiority available to American firms.
"America is the undisputed world leader in technological innovation," notes Dan Dalton, dean of the Kelley School of Business. "This year's conference speakers will explore the origins and character of that technological edge, speak to the present and future consequences of this phenomenon for American business decision makers and assess the ramifications for the U.S. economy."
This year's business conference, "The 21st Century Corporation: Building on the American Technological Edge," will begin with breakfast with Dean Dalton at 7:45 a.m. in the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis. Dalton will present the Kelley School's plans for the future and discuss its current activities.
In addition to IU's Kelley School of Business, other sponsors of the conference are Baker & Daniels, Central Printing Group, Citibank, F.S.B., Deloitte & Touche LLP, Eli Lilly and Company, Harris Trust & Savings Bank, LaSalle National Bank and USA Group.
Keynoting the conference at 9 a.m. will be Deutch, an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has served in significant academic and government posts throughout his career, including a 20-month term as director of the CIA.
Deutch has served or advised the federal government during the terms of U.S. presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush and Bill Clinton.
Prior to his term at the CIA, Deutch served as deputy secretary of the Department of Defense - the number-two job in the Pentagon. He joined the Clinton administration in 1992 as undersecretary for acquisition in the Department of Defense. During the Carter administration, Deutch served as the first director of energy research in the Department of Energy and later as undersecretary of energy.
Deutch, an Amherst College graduate who received a doctorate from MIT in 1965 and joined its faculty in 1970, was named an Institute Professor in 1990 after serving five years as provost. He served as dean of the School of Science from 1982-85 and was head of the Department of Chemistry in 1976-77. He has also served frequently as an advisor or consultant to other government and professional organizations.
Deutch is a leading expert on the state of industrial technology worldwide. He will speak to the nature and extent of the technological lead that American firms enjoy over their competitors in other economies, as well as the opportunities and challenges that edge presents for American business.
Following Deutch on the program will be Lutz, whom the New York Times called "one of the most colorful executives in the United States automobile industry" after a 35-year career at each of the "Big Three" automakers.
Lutz retired in 1998 as vice chairman of Chrysler (now DaimlerChrysler), where he also had been president and chief operating officer since 1991. He is credited with being a key player in the company's 1990s turnaround, and introduced new product development techniques and championed such high-image products such as the Dodge Viper, a "muscle car."
He shared many insights from his tenure as head of Chrysler in his best-selling book, Guts: The Seven Laws of Business That Made Chrysler the World's Hottest Car Company. In November, he was named chairman, president and chief executive officer of Exide Corp, the world's largest automotive battery maker based in Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
"I am on record, both in my speeches and the pages of my book ... with specific ideas on how a business should run and should be run," Lutz, now in his mid-60s, said at his installment at Exide in December. "I plan to put my principles, concepts, 'Lutz's Laws,' into practice to help make Exide not only the biggest, best and most profitable battery company in the world, but also one of the most respected Fortune 500 companies, period!"
Lutz joined Chrysler in June 1986 as executive vice president and as a board director. He was named president of Chrysler Motors in 1988. Before Chrysler, Lutz had spent 12 years at Ford Motor Co., where he was executive vice president of truck operations, chairman of Ford's European unit, and executive vice president of Ford's international operations. He was a member of Ford's board of directors from 1982 to 1986.
He began his automotive career at General Motors Corp., where he held a variety of senior positions in Europe. Later, he served three years as executive vice president of sales at BMW and as a member of that company's board of management.
At the conference, Lutz will describe firsthand how he led Chrysler to its position of technological leadership in the automobile manufacturing industry, and will be available to sign copies of his book.
Speaking at lunch will be D'Andrea Tyson, former chief economic adviser to President Clinton and dean of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. She is the only woman serving as dean of a major business school in the United States. Tyson joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 1977.
She took leave from UC Berkeley in 1993 when President Clinton appointed her chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisors, and was the first woman to hold that post. In 1995, Clinton asked Tyson to succeed Robert Rubin as National Economic Advisor. In accepting that position, Tyson became the highest-ranking woman in the Clinton White House. She returned to UC Berkeley in 1997.
Tyson was a key architect of Clinton's domestic and international policy agenda during his first term in office. As the Clinton Administration's top economic adviser, she managed all economic policy-making throughout the executive branch, serving as head of the National Economic Council, which is the coordinating group made up of the president, the vice president and members of the Cabinet. Tyson also served as a member of the President's National Security Council and Domestic Policy Council.
An international authority on U.S. economic competitiveness, trade policy and U.S.-Japan economic relations, Tyson is the author of Who's Bashing Whom? Trade Conflicts in High-Technology Industries and numerous other works on economic competitiveness. She currently is an economic viewpoint columnist for Business Week and a regular commentator for the Nightly Business Report. Tyson received her bachelor of arts degree in economics, summa cum laude, in 1969 from Smith College in Massachusetts, and her doctorate in economics in 1974 from MIT.
As she does in her regular Business Week column, Tyson will address the macroeconomic and microeconomic ramifications of accelerating technological change, for both the domestic and global economies.
At the business conference lunch, the Kelley School of Business will honor four successful business executives who are among its alumni: John L. Carl, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Amoco Corp.; James R. Faulstich, president and CEO of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle; Robert J. Larkin, chairman and CEO of Brightpoint Inc.; Erik G. Nelson, retired senior vice president and former chief financial officer of Procter & Gamble Co.; and Michael E. Szymanczyk, president and CEO and Philip Morris USA. The program is expected to conclude at about 2 p.m.
The individual registration fee for the conference is $110 and is encouraged before Feb. 15. Breakfast with Dean Dalton costs an additional $15. Table registrations for 10 persons cost $1,000, which includes breakfast tickets for two people; or for five persons, $525, which includes one breakfast ticket. Additional tickets to the breakfast may be purchased. Table registrations include reserved seating at lunch and registration for the conference.
Send registrations to Annual Business Conference, 1309 E. 10th St., Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405-1701. Credit card registrations can be sent by fax to Conference Registrar, Kelley School of Business, 812-855-3535. Make checks payable to the IU Kelley School of Business Alumni Association. For more information, contact the conference hotline at 812-855-6340 or by e-mail at busalum@indiana.edu.
(George Vlahakis, Office of Communications and Marketing, 812-855-0846, gvlahaki@indiana.edu)