UCLA HARRT

2010 Annual Sr. Executive Retreat
2010-11-11 13:00 - 2010-11-13 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 4 Seasons Resort, 1260 Channel Dr, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
“Toward a New HR? Perspectives on a Changing Role”

Featured Speakers:
Bob Johansen
Distinguished Fellow
Institute for the Future
Michael Haffenden
Co-Founder and Director
Corporate Research Forum
Graham Prentice
Associate
Corporate Research Forum
Ed Leamer
Chauncy J, Professor of Management
UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management
David Lewin, Ph.D
Neil H Jacoby Chair in Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Douglas Klein
President
Sirota Survey Intelligence
Featured Panelists:
Stan Duncan
Senior Executive VP, Human Resources and Global Head of Talent Management & Org Development
Westfield Corporation
George Rose
Executive VP, Worldwide People and Org
Sony Pictures Entertainment
John Kelly
Senior VP, Human Resources
Capital Group

Summary:
Challenged by a world of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, this session will focus on new opportunities where volatility can be turned into vision, uncertainty into understanding, complexity into clarity and ambiguity into agility.

Senior Round Table: “Challenges for Health Care and Higher Education in the New Normal”
2010-09-29 15:30 - 18:30 | UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Featured Speaker
Gene D. Block
Chancellor
UCLA

Changes in the economy and public policy continue to highlight challenges for the “New Normal. The recession has had a far reaching impact on local and global markets and on public institutions. Reduced tax dollars have exacerbated the budget deficit in California and the public university system, responsible for educating the workforce of the future. These changes along with demographic shifts are reshaping the higher education landscape. UCLA and other public universities in California have had to face these challenges and make adjustments while preserving their mandate to educate, conduct research and serve the greater community. Likewise the Health Care Reform Legislation passed by Congress in March of this year poses challenges for employers who have to interpret and implement these changes as health care costs continue to escalate.
Chancellor Gene D. Block will address the challenges faced by public universities and how UCLA plans to serve its mission of education, research and community service to enhance quality of life for Californians while adapting to a new funding model.
A panel of members and health care experts will share programs they have implemented at their organizations to improve outcomes for quality health care for their employees and reduce costs. Diane Shapiro at Boeing will share the basic principles of “The Medical Home” program to address issues for chronically ill employees, “Best Doctors” and “Boeing on the Move.” Ken Kahrs from NBC Universal will discuss contrasting approaches to health benefits and the impact on employee satisfaction, Tanya Benenson, NBCU Medical Director will share the impact of their health clinics and wellness programs to give patients the kind of care they are not getting elsewhere. Leslie A Margolin, President and CEO of Partners Transforming Health will share strategies for how health care costs can be reduced and address insurer, provider, customer and consumer issues.

Senior Round Table: "Strategy: New or Normal?"
2010-05-12 15:30 - 18:30 | UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Featured Speakers
John de Figueiredo, Ph.D
Associate Professor of Strategic Management and Associate Professor of Law
UCLA Anderson School of Management

John de Figueiredo’s primary fields of research are competitive strategy, political and legal strategy, law and economics, and the management of innovation. His research in “non-market” strategy examines how firms use political influence, regulatory lobbying, and strategic litigation to enhance competitive performance. His current work in the field has examined corporate legislative and regulatory lobbying behavior in telecommunications, health care, and other high technology industries. De Figueiredo’s research on competitive strategy and innovation focus on long-term competitive advantage, technology strategy, and organizational change. His papers have appeared in leading economics, management, and law journals.
Prior to joining the UCLA Anderson School, Professor de Figueiredo was on the faculties of the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. He was also the Olin Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Harvard Law School and is currently a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. De Figueiredo has taught MBA students, Ph.D. students, and executives in a variety of different programs. His main teaching responsibility has been the core MBA Strategic Management course, and he has developed and taught an MBA elective course on corporate non-market strategy, introducing techniques to company executives on managing the media, activists, government, and international bodies to achieve the objectives of the corporation. He also teaches competitive strategy, non-market strategy, technology strategy, corporate governance, and organizational change at the senior executive and board of directors level. He won the Excellence in Teaching Award for MBA teaching while at MIT, and has won four teaching awards in his four years on the UCLA faculty.
Prior to joining academia, Professor de Figueiredo was a strategic management consultant at Monitor Company for a number of years, where he served on a team of consultants that started the company’s Spanish practice and Madrid office.

Senior Round Table: "Creative Problem Solving in Challenging Times"
2010-02-11 15:30 - 18:30 | UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 90024, United States
Featured Speakers
Iris Firstenberg, Ph.D
Associate Adjunct Professor
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Introduction and comments by Professor David Lewin

A great leader helps keep a team engaged and energized when the pressure is high. In times of great uncertainty and rapid change, the challenge to maintain a sense of focus, drive, and enthusiasm requires unique efforts. We will discuss how to inspire and motivate people so that even in difficult times, people can accomplish extraordinary results. We will also discuss strategies for tapping the human potential for creative thinking in the workplace as a way of dealing with uncertainty and leading change in difficult times.
Iris Firstenberg, Associate Adjunct Professor at the Anderson Graduate School of Management, will discuss how a culture of innovation rapidly recognizes change and adapts with new learning and action. Successful organizations operate on the edge of chaos and embrace risk, error, and ambiguity as a way of life while practicing strategies that reduce the need for doing, undoing, and redoing. This session provides provocative ideas and tools to give participants the adaptive capacity to work creatively with change and uncertainty and adapt more quickly to emerging opportunities.
Iris will lead an interactive session on setting the stage for creative thinking which focuses on the constraints that inhibit our ability to think with flexibility and delivers powerful thinking strategies that expand possibilities and prepares leaders to meet new challenges and create better opportunities as the future unfolds. Through group discussion and conversation we will generate actionable ideas for participants to take back to their organizations.
