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"Connecting Asia"
The
2001 Harvard Asia Business Conference
February
2-3, 2001
Globalization has presented Asia with unprecedented
opportunities and challenges. Asian countries are increasingly connected
with the rest of the world via capital flows, information, technology,
trade and governance. Connecting Asia seeks to provide its
participants with a deeper understanding of Asia's place in our
increasingly global world and a clearer framework for understanding
what it will take to thrive in a truly connected Asia.
Connecting Asia is
the 8th annual conference of the Harvard Business School's
Asia Business Club and will be held at the school. Last year it
attracted over 1,200 panelists and participants. Its format centers
around a number of distinguished keynote speakers and a set of panels
that will analyze salient aspects of Asian globalization.
This year's keynote speakers are:
- H.E. Dr Supachai Panitchpakdi
Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand,
next Director General of the WTO
- Keiichi Enoki
Managing Director, NTT (the creator
of i-Mode)
- Hogen Oh
Former Chairman of Daewoo Corporation;
Chairman of Restructuring Committee of Korea
- Wu Fu Chen
Founder of Cascade Communications;
CEO of Santera Systems
In addition, the conference will feature 6 panels
(each covering 3 topics) and 3 plenary sessions on topics ranging
from macroeconomic trends, the wireless opportunity in Japan, and
commercial piracy in China. Each session will feature expert
panelists and moderators drawn from industry, government and academia.
The conference will draw on a over 70 experts including Professor
Michael Porter of the Harvard Business School. A selection of the
sessions and panelists include:
- The role of international organizations in
prescribing Asian economic growth (panelists
include Michael Furst, Executive Director of the American Chamber
of Commerce in Beijing; Masahiro Kawai, Chief Economist on East
Asia at the World Bank)
- Capital flows in Asia: venture capital, private
equity and portfolio investment (panelists
include John Paul Ho, Chairman of Crimson Ventures; Carmel Peters,
Portfolio Manager for Emerging Markets Asia at Putnam Investments)
- Opportunities and challenges for the next
generation of Asian companies (panelists
include Phillip Yu, Compaq China; Daniel Mao, COO of sina.com;
Mark Daniell, MD at Bain & Co)
Large Indian companies in the new economy (panelists
include K.V. Kamath, CEO, ICICI; S. Ramadorai: CEO, Tata Consulting
Services)
Url: www.asiabusinessconference.org.
Contact Victor Ho (vho@mba2002.hbs.edu)
for further media details and queries.
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