The Penn Wharton Alumni Club of Toronto is proudto make available to its members ONLY
the possibility to attend an exeptional event as part of the Inter-University Clubs Exchanges.
Winning at Innovation through Cultural Diversity
Canadian companies have a wealth of cultural diversity – whether they’re doing business just in Canada or around the world. But are you using this “free” resource to achieve competitive advantage? Cultural diversity is a key ingredient for innovation. In this session, we’ll identify how to unlock its potential and use cultural diversity for higher performance through innovation.
IMD professor Martha Maznevski will lead this interactive session and will discuss her latest research and work in the field. The event is graciously sponsored by the Consulate General of Switzerland (Toronto) and organized by IMD and the IMD Alumni Club of Canada (Toronto).
Martha Maznevski (Canadian, PhD Ivey Business School, Program Director of IMD’s MBA program) runs programs spanning a broad range of organisational behaviour topics, including teams and leadership in global and virtual (distance) contexts, diversity and inclusiveness, and the relationship between organisational and national cultures. She has served as advisor to public and private organisations in North America, Europe and Asia on issues of managing people globally.
Date & Time
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Welcome & Registration: 18:00-18:45
Interactive Presentation: 18:45-20:00
Hors d'ouvres & Cocktails: from 20:00
Location
The National Club
303 Bay St. Toronto, ON M5H 2R1
http://www.thenationalclub.com/location.asp
Please join us for a lively dialogue on this timely and interesting topic. There will be wine and assorted refreshments served and abundant time for networking.
The cost is: $20 for members Click here to buy tickets!!!
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If you have any questions or would like further information, please e-mail: toronto@alumni.imd.ch
On behalf of the IMD Alumni Club of Canada, Best regards, Brett Berman, President.
Bio: Martha Maznevski
Martha Maznevski teaches in the following IMD programs: Master Business Administration (MBA - Program Director), Program for Executive Development (PED) Strategic Leadership for Women (SL)Orchestrating Winning Performance (OWP)
Martha Maznevski is Professor of Organizational Behavior and International Management at IMD, and the MBA Program Director. She teaches courses and modules spanning a broad range of organizational behavior topics, including teams and leadership in global and virtual (distance) contexts, diversity and inclusiveness, and the relationship between organizational and national culture. She teaches company programs for Borealis, Skanska, and others, and has served as a consultant and advisor to public and private organizations in North America, Europe, and Asia on issues of managing people globally.
Professor Maznevski has presented and published numerous articles on these subjects, most recently The Blackwell Handbook of Global Management: A Guide to Managing Complexity (Blackwell, 2004), and she is a co-author of the popular textbook International Management Behavior (Blackwell). Her current research focuses on the on-going dynamics of high-performing teams and networks in multinational organizations, and managing people in global complexity. Martha Maznevski co-developed the Cultural Perspectives Questionnaire, an instrument that measures individuals’ cultural orientations and is widely used as a diagnostic tool in global teams and organizations.
Before joining IMD, Professor Maznevski served as Faculty at the University of Virginia (USA) and the University of Western Ontario (Canada), and as a visiting researcher at the Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden). She earned degrees in education from the University of Toronto (Canada), and in anthropology (undergraduate) and business administration (PhD) from the University of Western Ontario.
Publications, Cases, Projects Martha Maznevski is the author of numerous articles, case studies and projects in the above mentioned fields. Find out more information about Martha Maznevski's publications :
