When Will They Ever Learn? An Organizational Behavior Perspective on the Recent Financial Crisis
An Evening with Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer
7:00 p.m. on Monday, 6 April 2009
The American Club, 10 Claymore Hill
You’re invited to join fellow alumni for a rewarding and insightful discussion with Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business as he shares his insights on the recent turbulence in the financial markets.
Professor Pfeffer will discuss how a lack of focus on understanding failure, over-reliance on compensation as a management tool, and omnipresent managerial hubris make organizations so bad at learning from past mistakes. Unless we get better at predicting what reward systems are actually going to do and unless we get smarter about designing management practices that don’t produce destructive behavior, Pfeffer maintains the current bad news will get recycled in the future.
Professor Pfeffer is renowned for his research and insights into human resource management and power and influence in organizations.
Professor Pfeffer has both a BS and MS from Carnegie Mellon University, and a PhD from Stanford University. Among his previous 12 books are “The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action,” “Managing with Power,” “The Human Equation: Building Profits by Putting People First,” and “What Were They Thinking? Unconventional Wisdom About Management.”
We’re very fortunate to have an opportunity to meet with this highly sought-after speaker and researcher during his short visit to Singapore. Space is limited to please make your reservations early. Please send the reservation form to Richard Hartung or Liew Weylin by 30 March 2009 to reserve a place. For more information, please contact Richard by email or by phone at 6323-5188. Fees for the event include light hors d’oeuvres, soft drinks and wine.
The form is available for download here: Professor Pfeffer Event Invitation Form