Dates & Location:
 October 22-23, 2007 / Cambridge, MA

COURSE FACULTY

Roger Nagel Harvey Wagner Professor and Sr. Fellow, CSE and Enterprise Systems Center Lehigh University author, Cooperate to Compete

Roger N. Nagel is a Senior Fellow in the Enterprise Systems Center at Lehigh University. He is also the Harvey Wagner Professor, in the CSE department and the former CEO and Executive Director of the Iacocca Institute. Business Week, Forbes, and Fortune magazine have cited him for his visionary efforts as the father of the virtual corporation concept. He is co-author of the widely influential business book, “Agile Competitors and Virtual Organizations: Strategies for Enriching the Customer” and the more recent book “Cooperate to Compete: Building Agile Business Relationships.”

Roger’s current research activities center on the concept of smart business networks and innovation networks. In extending his work on virtual organizations to collaboration and innovation networks, Nagel has traveled extensively in China and worked with Chinese Business leaders in their desire to be world class competitors and participate in global partnerships. He is an honorary professor at Jiaotong University in Xian and teaches in their executive MBA program for Chinese business leaders. On the domestic side he is collaborating with Henry Chesbrough on the development and application of open Innovation concepts for local companies. Working with Chesbrough he will be developing executive level and semester long courses for business executives interested in collaborating through open innovation networks.

Dr. Alan Paau is Vice Provost for Technology Transfer and Economic Development at Cornell University and President of the Cornell Research Foundation. Until January 2007, he was Assistant Vice Chancellor for Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property Services at the University of California San Diego. Dr. Paau held various research and management positions in the Cetus Corporation and the W.R. Grace & Co. organization for 12 years. He is the inventor to 8 US patents and has contributed thirty peer-reviewed research articles to scientific journals and six invited reviews/chapters to technical books. As a director of intellectual property and a licensing executive, he supervised the execution of over 850 licenses and option agreements and the formation of over 90 startup companies using university innovations.

Lothar Katz is a management advisor in the field of international business and founder of cross-cultural consultancy Leadership Crossroads in Dallas, TX. He has a wealth of experience in achieving productive cooperation across cultures and driving business success on a global scale, and has helped many large and small organizations grow their global competence and international business. A former Vice President with a Fortune 500 company, Lothar has led international organizations that included several teams in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Over the course of more than 15 years, he has negotiated and worked with countless customers, employees, outsourcing partners, and third parties in China and several other Asian countries.

Lothar is an executive board member of the DFW Asian American Citizens Council. He is the author of the book “Negotiating International Business – The Negotiator’s Reference Guide to 50 Countries Around the World”, teaches International Project Management at the University of Texas at Dallas’ School of Management, and is a Business Leadership Center instructor at the Southern Methodist University’s Cox School of Business and a guest lecturer at the University of Washington’s Business School.

Lothar Katz is a management advisor in the field of international business and founder of cross-cultural consultancy Leadership Crossroads in Dallas, TX. He has a wealth of experience in achieving productive cooperation across cultures and driving business success on a global scale, and has helped many large and small organizations grow their global competence and international business. A former Vice President with a Fortune 500 company, Lothar has led international organizations that included several teams in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Over the course of more than 15 years, he has negotiated and worked with countless customers, employees, outsourcing partners, and third parties in China and several other Asian countries.

Lothar is an executive board member

Dr. Canwen Jiang is Head of Genzyme Science (R&D) China and Senior Scientific Director, Applied Discovery, at Genzyme Corporation. After medical education in China, Dr. Jiang received his clinical cardiology training at the Royal Brompton & National Heart Hospitals, London, UK. He also obtained a Ph.D. from the Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, London, UK, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California at Berkeley, USA. Dr. Jiang joined Genzyme in 1994 and has worked on several R&D projects in cardiovascular, genetic, and metabolic diseases. He has co-authored over 50 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals including Science, Circulation, and Circulation Research, and has been granted multiple patents. Dr. Jiang is a Fellow of the American Heart Association.