Schedule Day 2 - Thursday, May 17, 2012printer friendly version

*Dress Code: Business Casual for Forum and Business Suit for Thursday and Friday Dinners.

Time & LocationEvent
8:00 AM - 5:00 PMEntrance Foyer, Palazzo Mezzanotte Piazza degli Affari, 6 20123 Milano Registration Desk Opens
8:00 AM - 9:00 AMArea Scavi RomaniWelcome Coffee
9:00 AM - 10:30 AMOpening Plenary
 

Masters of Ceremony

 Alessandro Barzaghi, L'03

Organizing Board Member, Milan

 Marco De Benedetti, WG'87

President, Organizing Board, Milan

 Federico Tecilla, WG'03

Organizing Board Member, Milan

 Paola Visco, WG'04

Organizing Board Member, Milan

Parterre Hall 

Location Map

Parterre Hall
 

Welcome from the Chairman

Corrado Passera, WG’80

Minister of Economic Development, Infrastructure and Transport, Government of Italy, Rome

 

Dean`s State of the School

Thomas S. Robertson

Dean, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

 

Keynote Speech:

"In What Form Will the Eurozone Emerge from the Crisis?"Franklin Allen

Nippon Life Professor of Finance; Professor of Economics

10:30 AM - 11:00 AMArea Scavi RomaniCoffee Break
11:00 AM - 12:30 PMPalazzo MezzanotteConcurrent Panel Discussion
Sala Blu 70 

Panel #1: Success Stories in Retail: Perspectives from Today`s Leaders

Panel Description
 

Moderator:

Felipe Monteiro

Assistant Professor of Management

 

Panelists:

 Claudio Del Vecchio

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Brooks Brothers Group, Inc., New York

 Marco Messini

VP, Southern Europe, Timberland, Milan

 Giuseppe Miroglio

Chief Executive Officer, Miroglio Group, Alba Cuneo

 Alessandro Pozzi

Chief Executive Officer, Tommy Hilfiger Italy, Milan

 

Location Map

Sala Blu 70
Parterre Hall 

Panel #2: Private Equity in a Changing Environment

Panel Description
 

Moderator:

Marco De Benedetti, WG'87

Managing Director, The Carlyle Group, Milan

 

Panelists:

 Antoine Dréan, WG'92

Founder,Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Triago, Paris

 Daniel A. D’Aniello

Managing Director, Carlyle Group, Washington, DC

 Kwek Ping Yong, WF'04

Chief Executive Officer, Inventis Investment, Shanghai

 

Location Map

Parterre Hall
Sala Blu 60 

Panel #3: Strategic Sustainability in the Global Economy: When Playing by the Existing Rules is not Enough

Panel Description
 

Moderator:

Kenneth Shropshire

David W. Hauck Professor; Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, Director, Wharton Sports Business Initiative

 

Panelists:

 Allen Hershkowitz, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist, Natural Resources Defense Council, New York

 Gianluca Pavanello

Chief Executive Officer, Macron Technical Sportswear, Bologna

 Jennifer Regan

Global Sustainability Director, AEG Worldwide, Los Angeles

 Clemente Signoroni

Founder, G.E.N.Y.A.S, Greengate and Haras de Saint Ours, Aosta Valley

 Nino Tronchetti Provera

Chief Executive Officer, Ambienta SGR, Milan

 

Location Map

Sala Blu 60
1:00 PM - 2:00 PMPalazzo Mezzanotte, MezzanineNetworking Lunch
2:00 PM - 3:00 PMParterre HallPost-Lunch Plenary
 

Location Map

Parterre Hall
 

Raffle Announcement

Claudio Tesauro

President, Save The Children, Milan

 

Keynote Speaker

Diego Della Valle

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Tod's s.p.a., Milan

3:00 PM - 3:30 PMArea Scavi RomaniCoffee Break
3:00 PM - 6:30 PMSala GiallaWharton Ph.D. Seminar
 

Moderator:

Eric T. Bradlow

The K.P. Chao Professor; Professor of Marketing, Statistics, and Education; Co-Director, Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative; Vice- Dean, Wharton Doctoral Programs

 

Speakers:

 Ryan Burg, GRW'11

Assistant Professor, National Research University - Higher School of Economics, Moscow

 Nuno de Sousa Pereira, GRW'06

Dean, EGP-University of Porto Business School, Portugal

 Phanish Puranam, GRW'00 GRW'01

Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship and Chair of the PhD Programme, London Business School, London

 Carlo Favero

Deutsche Bank Chair in Quantitative Finance and Asset Pricing, Bocconi University, Milan

 

Location Map

Sala Gialla
3:30 PM - 5:00 PMPalazzo MezzanotteConcurrent Panel Discussions
Sala Blu 70 

Panel #4: The New Consumer-Centricity: A Renewed Challenge for the Fashion Industry

Panel Description
 

Moderator:

Patti Williams

Ira A. Lipman Associate Professor of Marketing

 

Panelists:

 Carlo Capasa

Chief Executive Officer, E.C. - Costume National, Milan

 Marialuisa Gavazzeni Trussardi

President, Finos S.p.A.(Trussardi Group), Milan

 Matteo Marzotto

Chief Executive Officer, Vionnet, Milan

 Nicolas Topiol, WG'91

Chief Executive Officer, Christian Lacroix SNC, Paris

 

Location Map

Sala Blu 70
Parterre Hall 

Panel #5: The Economic Outlook in an Era of Unprecedented Challenges

Panel Description
 

Moderator:

Franklin Allen

Nippon Life Professor of Finance; Professor of Economics

 

Panelists:

Lamia Boutaleb, WG'98

Chief Executive Officer, Capital Trust, Casablanca

 Jan G. Loeys

Managing Director; Head of Global Asset Allocation and Alternative Investments, JP Morgan, New York

 Domenico Siniscalco

Vice Chairman, Morgan Stanley, London

 Daniel Stelter

Senior Partner; Managing Director, Boston Consulting Group, Berlin

 

Location Map

Parterre Hall
Sala Blu 60 

Panel #6: Now for Something Completely Different- Switching to Emerging Markets

Panel Description
 

Moderator:

Arnold J. Rosoff

Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics; Professor of Health Care Management; Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics

 

Panelists:

 Elena Anfimova, WG'04

Portfolio Manager, Firebird Management, Istanbul

 Jason Breemen, WG'02

Managing Director, Everstone Capital, Singapore

 Tarun Kataria, WG'85

Chief Executive Officer, Religare Capital Markets India, Mumbai

 Kyle Shaw, WG'87

Managing Director, Shaw Kwei & Partners, Hong Kong

 Hendrik Susanto, WG'00

Managing Director, Ancora Capital Management, Singapore

 

Location Map

Sala Blu 60
8:00 PM - 11:00 PMTriennale MuseumGala Forum Banquet
 

Triennale Design Museum

Location Map
 

Keynote Speaker

Ignazio Visco, GR'81

Governor, Bank of Italy, Rome

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