The MIT Club of Wisconsin
and
Lathrop & Clark LLP
are pleased to invite you to join us
on Wednesday, February 25, 2009
at the Pyle Center, Madison,
for the MIT Enterprise Forum/MIT Club of Wisconsin program:
“Surviving and Thriving During the Recession of 2009”
This program will include the MIT Enterprise Forum Global Broadcast:
“Paint It Black: Avoiding The Financial Beast Of Burden In 2009 And Beyond”
and
Registration, networking and hors d’oeuvres
5:00pm – 6:00pm
MIT Enterprise Forum Global Broadcast
6:00pm – 7:30pm
Local panel discussion
7:45pm – 8:45pm
This event is only $12.
Please register at:
MIT Club of Wisconsin Electronic Registration Page
https://alum.mit.edu/smarTrans/register-login.vm?eventID=28841&groupID=195
The Wisconsin local panel includes:
— Kay Plantes (moderator) helps senior leaders make better strategy decisions, faster. Her keen insights, creativity, compassion and openness have enabled clients of all sizes and sectors to achieve stronger financial and marketplace results. Kay is author of Beyond Price: Differentiate Your Company in Ways that Really Matter (Greenleaf Book Group, 2009). Kay also writes a strategy column for The Capital Region Business Journal and for Madison Magazine. She’s now writing, “Stop! A Radical Leadership Development Experience,” a book about sabbaticals as a leadership tool. Kay holds a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT and a B.S. in Business Administration from Penn State.
— Jonathan Eckhardt, Assistant Professor of Management, UW-Madison School of Business, studies various aspects of the entrepreneurial process, including firm formation, venture finance, initial public offerings, the relationship between public innovation and commercial entrepreneurship, and the role of information in entrepreneurship.. Much of his research involves the study of the formation of commercial software markets for early handheld computing platforms including the Palm Handheld Computer. Jon has received several awards for his research and he is one of five professors in the United States to be selected as a Kauffman Faculty Fellow. Previously, Jon was with the National Economic Research Associates and Legg Mason Capital Management. As an undergraduate, he started a small venture based on a desire of avoiding paying rent while in college. He exceeded this goal, and has been interested in entrepreneurship ever since. He holds degrees from Penn State (B.S.) and the University of Maryland (Ph.D.).
— An economist from the Chicago Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank
— Wisconsin-based entrepreneurs and business leaders
