Ivey Network Ottawa Chapter

Ivey Ottawa at the Canadian Club Luncheon with Dr. Sherry Cooper, Executive Vice-President & Chief Economist, BMO Financial Group

The Ottawa Ivey Alumni chapter will be organizing Ivey Alumni tables for the luncheon. Seats are available on a first come basis till January 9, 2012.
With each 8 confirmations, we will reserve a group table.

Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Time: Noon for 12:15 PM

Location: Ballroom, Fairmont Chateau Laurier
1 Rideau Street, Ottawa, ON K1N 8S7

Cost: $65.63 per person
(based on a table cost of $525 per eight)

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Dr. Sherry Cooper is in constant demand as a speaker and writer because of her ability to simplify and de-mystify the complex subjects of economics and finance. Sherry received the Lawrence Klein Award for U.S. forecasting accuracy in 2010, beating out a panel of 50 economists predicting the four-year period from 2006 to 2009—the period encompassing the U.S. housing bubble, financial crisis, recession and recovery.

Canada’s national newspaper calls Sherry “the megawatt celebrity economist”. She leads a highly respected team of economists and has been repeatedly cited as one of the most influential women in Canada. Dr, Cooper is regularly quoted in the financial press and you have heard her often on radio and TV. Sherry published her third book, The New Retirement: How It Will Change Our Future in January 2008 and it was a blockbuster bestseller.

Dr. Cooper has an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pittsburgh and began her career at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. Following five years at the Fed, she joined the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) as director of financial economics and moved to Canada in 1983 to become Chief Economist at Burns Fry.

We look forward to seeing you there!


For more information contact David Barron dgbarron@hotmail.com

“Doing Business in India” Case Study Discussion lead by Ivey Professor Ariff Kachra

(Note new time & location!)

The Ottawa Alumni Chapter and the Richard Ivey School of Business invite you to join us for an after-work event titled: “Doing Business in India”.  Awarding winning Professor Ariff Kachra, Ph.D. will lead us through a traditional Ivey case study discussion.  This is an open event—all are welcome.

November 3, 2011:  4:30
PM Reception. 5:15 PM Start.
Refreshments and Hors D’oeuvres Served
Location:  KPMG Corporate Classroom, 160 Elgin Street, Suite 2000
Cost: $15 with proceeds directed to work of The Ottawa Mission.
Open Event – All are Welcome! CLICK HERE to Register.

According to the International Monetary Fund the Indian economy is worth US$1.632 trillion; it is the world’s ninth-largest economy by market exchange rates.  With its average annual GDP growth rate of 5.8% over the past two decades, and reaching 10.4% during 2010, India is one of the world’s fastest-growing economies.  According to a 2011 PwC report, India’s GDP at purchasing power parity will overtake Japan’s during 2011; by 2045 it will surpass that of the United States.  During the next four decades, Indian GDP is expected to grow at an annualized average of 8%, making it potentially the world’s fastest growing major economy until 2050.  This is due to a young and rapidly growing working-age population; growth in the manufacturing sector due to rising education and engineering skill levels; and sustained growth of the consumer market driven by a rapidly growing middle class (www.wikipedia.org).

As you re-connect with your fellow alumni, friends, colleagues and the Ivey community, we hope to take you back in time and give you an opportunity to get involved in a real-live Ivey Case Study on doing business in India.  The evening will also provide a wonderful platform to discuss the business culture, opportunities and challenges within India with a special focus on the booming Educational sector.  We hope that our alumni friends can come forward with wonderful real world, successful ideas and we in turn hope that you will enjoy an evening ‘just-like-ol-times’ in the delightful company of your friends, professors and excellent food!

Professor Ariff Kachra, Ph.D

Ariff Kachra is Professor of Strategy and General Management. In his first year at Richard Ivey School of Business, Dr. Kachra was the recipient of the David G. Burgoyne award for teaching excellence and is a member of the University of Western Ontario Teaching Honour Role. Since then, Professor Kachra has won teaching awards at both the MBA (Lawrence Tapp Award for Teaching Excellence) and at the undergraduate level (David G. Bourgogne Award).  Dr. Kachra has served in many roles at the school.  He has been the Academic  Director of the Ivey Consulting Program and the Founding Editor of the Ivey Business Review, Canada’s first undergraduate business journal.  His most exciting role is being the Managing Director of Ivey India.  Professor Kachra has lead a small group of Ivey faculty in spearheading Ivey’s entry into India.  Under this leadership over the last two years, Ivey has successfully trained 300 Indian faculty in the Ivey Case Method, signed and MOU with the Indian School of Business to set up a case development center and an MOU with IIM Bangalore to encourage research between faculty at both our institutions.   Ivey has also developed deep connections with India’s business community being the first Canadian school to offer custom designed executive education programs in India.

Prior to joining Ivey, Dr. Kachra taught Strategy to MBA and Executive MBA students at Pepperdine’s Graziadio School of Business and Management in California. During his 7-year career at Pepperdine, Professor Kachra was the recipient of multiple teaching awards and served as the Director of the MBA program. Professor Kachra started his academic career at the Tefler School of Management at the University of Ottawa, where he also earned his BBA and International MBA degrees. He holds a Ph.D. from the Richard Ivey School of Business. In addition to teaching in the US and Canada, Ariff has also recently taught at the Indian School of Business, ranked #15 among the top 100 global schools.

Ariff’s research interests include knowledge management, decision making, top management teams, improvisation, ethics in strategic management, and international joint ventures. He has published in top journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of World Business and Journal of Management Education. Ariff is also a regular presenter at conferences such as the Academy of Management and the Strategic Management Society.

Professor Kachra is a sought-after strategy consultant, trainer and executive coach working with a number of medium and large sized companies in California and across the United States.  Companies such as Brinks, Amgen, Kinecta Federal Credit Union, Autoland, UCLA, Southern California Edison, London Hydro, and the Government of Canada are among Dr. Kachra’s clients. He is an expert facilitator with specific interests in working with Boards and Top Management Teams to map out their strategic direction.  Ariff also has several years of management consulting and senior management experience in Canada and abroad.

In his spare time Dr. Kachra volunteers with the Agakhan Foundation, Big Brothers and Big Sisters, Better Business Bureau, and helps many of the alumni from his classes with career coaching.  Dr. Kachra is fluent in English, French and has a solid conversational ability in Hindi, Urdu, Gujarati and Kachi.

Note:  Case study materials will be distributed a few days prior to the event.

Contact dbarron@talentmap.com for more information.

Dinner & Dialogue with Phillip Crawley, CEO & Publisher of The Globe and Mail and Professor Jeffrey Gandz, Richard Ivey School of Business

The Ottawa Chapter of the Ivey Alumni Association
is excited to welcome Mr. Phillip Crawley

Date:  May 19, 2011
Time:  5:30 PM Reception
6:15 PM Dinner

Location: Fresco Bistro Italiano
354 Elgin Street, Ottawa, ON (map)

Cost: $85 (Includes program and dinner with wine)
Proceeds of the event will be directed to a designated charity of Mr. Crawley’s choice.

Attendance is limited to 36 people to ensure a strong interaction amongst all in attendance.

Ivey Alumni Only Event
CLICK HERE to register

Leadership on Trial (Gandz, Crossan, Seijts and Stephenson) has shown that the scope of the financial crisis went beyond each individual firm and threatened a carefully constructed global system. Leadership of any given firm has a direct impact on the development of the systems in which it participates.

The raging speed of new communications media is democratizing the spread of information and the perception is that this threat will never abate, just accelerate. During this time of forced transformation from newspaper to media conglomerate.  Can we say that the leadership development at The Globe & Mail is a shining example of fostering leadership to ensure not only the firm’s survival but the sustainability of the systems in which it participates?

Phillip Crawley
Mr. Phillip Crawley has served as Chief Executive Officer and Publisher of The Globe and Mail since October 1998. Prior to joining The Globe and Mail, he served in a variety of senior executive positions with some of the world’s leading newspaper and media companies. 

From April 1997 to September 1998, he served as the Managing Director of The New Zealand Herald, and later the Chief Executive Officer Designate of Wilson & Horton, the newspaper’s owner and New Zealand’s largest media group.  From 1993 to1997, Mr. Crawley served as Managing Director of The Times Supplements, London. From 1988 to 1993 he served as an Editor, then Editor-in-Chief of the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong and Editorial Director of Asia Magazine. From 1987 to 1988, he served as Northern Editor of The Daily Telegraph, London, and from 1979 to 1987 he served as an Editor of The Journal, Newcastle upon Tyne.  Prior to 1979, Mr. Crawley worked in various editorial roles for Thomson Regional Newspapers.

He serves as Director of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. Mr. Crawley is a graduate of English Language and Literature from Manchester University.

Professor J. (Jeffrey) Gandz
Prior to joining Ivey Business School, Professor Gandz worked for Warner-Lambert, Cheesebrough-Pond’s and Grey Advertising in Toronto. He earned an MBA and PhD at York University and has taught in Ivey’s MBA, Executive MBA and HBA programs.  He has also been a visiting professor at the Darden School, University of Virginia as well as at Queen’s, York, Penn State and L’Institute Superieur des Affaires in France.  He was the director of the MBA Program at Ivey from 1992-1996, and Associate Dean – Programs from 1996-1999 during which time he worked on globalizing the programs, enhancing corporate partnerships with the program, stimulating greater integration between traditional academic disciplines, introducing significant numbers of new courses and recruiting students from outside North America.

Gandz’s research interests focus on the development of leaders in organizations as well as the impact of economic, political, societal and technological change on the strategic and operational challenges facing business leaders today. He is the author of four books, many articles in both practitioner and academic magazines and journals, and over 100 case studies used in management development programs around the world.

He currently focuses on developing custom programs for companies in North America and Asia including, most recently, programs for Toronto-Dominion Bank Financial Group, Manulife Financial, KPMG LLP, Petro-Canada, J.D. Irving Limited, HSBC, Hutcheson Ports Holdings, Mattel Asia, as well as consulting with public and private sector organizations about their leadership development processes.

In addition to his teaching and research work, he acts as a mediator and arbitrator of labor disputes and has consulted with many organizations, including TD Bank Financial Group, KPMG LLP, Royal Bank Group, Royal Dutch Shell, Clarica, The World Bank, General Electric, AISCO and Imperial Oil. He is a member of the board of directors of Maple Leaf Foods Inc., a publicly-traded $7 billion (sales) diversified food processing company based in Toronto, and Canadian Medical Association Holdings, the financial services arm of the CMA. 

Contact David Barron at dbarron@talentmap.com for further information.

Canadian Club of Ottawa Luncheon – February 8

The Ivey Alumni Association of Ottawa has purchased a table at the February 8 Canadian Club Luncheon to hear Galen G. Weston, Executive Chairman, Loblaw Companies Limited, speak.  Come join us for lunch, a great speaker, and the ceremony of the Canadian Club!

Cost is $60 per ticket and payable by cheque to the “Ivey Alumni Association Ottawa”. 

Additional tables of eight (8) may be purchased based on interest. 

Please contact David Barron dbarron@talentmap.com for more information.

Join Together to Celebrate Global Ivey Day – Ottawa Chapter

You are invited to join Ivey alumni around the world for a Global Webcast with
Professors Jeffrey Gandz, Gerard Seijts and Mary Crossan. 
We will meet downtown for lunch and to view the webcast together at SAP’s offices.

DATE: Thursday, November 4, 2010

TIME: 12:00 Noon to 2:00 PM

LOCATION: SAP office, 100 Murray St, Suite #200

COST: $10 (includes lunch)

CLICK HERE to register

In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, many looked with renewed distrust at business leaders and the business schools responsible for their education.  As Canada’s premier business school, it was a crisis we could not ignore, and an opportunity to put our understanding of leadership and the process of leadership development to the test. In essence, we put leadership on trial.

 ”Leadership on Trial” – Researched and written by Ivey faculty, this report examines the nature of leadership and how leadership development must change to avoid the pitfalls that brought about the global financial crisis.  In Carol Stephenson’s own words:  “There’s an old adage that says we should never waste a good crisis.  This last worldwide recession certainly qualifies. It has forced us to examine the gap between what we know and feel about good leadership, and what took place in the past few years. What we hope will eventually emerge – and what we are working towards – is a solid set of guideposts for leadership in the 21st century.”

Good leadership demands action. Please join us on November 4th for the webcast as the faculty team unveils the findings and invites Ivey alumni to lend their voices to this critical initiative.  All are welcome.

For more information, please contact David Barron dbarron@talentmap.com.