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2000 Richard Farmer Memorial Lecture scheduled for Nov. 16
Nov. 9, 2000
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Manfred Becker, the Fall 2000 Richard N. Farmer Executive in Residence at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, will be on campus Nov. 16 and 17 and will present the school's annual Farmer Lecture on Thursday (Nov. 16).
Becker will speak at 5:30 p.m. in the University Club of the Indiana Memorial Union, with a reception there afterward. His lecture, "A Tale of Two Economies: United States Versus Germany in the 1990s," is free and open to the public.
During his visit, Becker also will meet with faculty, undergraduate and graduate students, university officials and members of the business community.
Becker is executive vice president of Mannesmann Corp., the American holding company for Atecs Mannesmann AG of Germany. In addition to heading Mannesmann's U.S. operations, Becker has led its operations in Brazil and worked in Germany.
Richard N. Farmer was a member of the faculty of the Kelley School of Business for 22 years. An internationally known scholar and prolific author, he was considered by his colleagues to be among the founding fathers of international business in the United States.
Following his death in 1987, a group of his former students and friends established a memorial fund in his honor to create the annual Richard N. Farmer Memorial Lecture Series. The Kelley School expanded the series into the Farmer Executive in Residence Program.
(George Vlahakis, 812-855-0846, gvlahaki@indiana.edu)