Deans from the world's leading business schools share their latest business thinking at the Joint Business School Alumni Conference (JAC).
Frank Brown, Dean, INSEAD, will deliver a keynote at JAC 2010.
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Frank Brown is Dean of INSEAD, the leading international business school with campuses in Europe and Asia. He is the second American Dean since the foundation of the school in 1957. His appointment in 2006 – on the basis of business rather than academic credentials – made INSEAD history. Prior to joining INSEAD, Brown had a distinguished 26-year career at PricewaterhouseCoopers, including leadership of the firm's Assurance and Business Advisory Service, Transactions Services and Corporate Development practices, then head of the $3.5 billion Advisory Services operating unit. During this time, he was a guest speaker on leadership at various universities and business schools and started a leadership development programme called Genesis Park in order to develop the next generation of PwC leaders, drive cultural change and promote a global perspective. Brown was also involved with the firm’s support for management research, most notably for one of the fastest selling business books of all time, Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne. Brown is the author of The Global Business Leader: Practical Advice for Success in a Transcultural Marketplace. Based on his global business experience, Brown reveals the skills and techniques needed to become a transcultural leader in today’s international marketplace. Brown is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut State Societies of Certified Public Accountants. He is a member of the Bridgepoint Capital Ltd Board, the European Academy of Business in Society Board (EABIS) and the European Executive Council (EEC). Brown is also Chairman Emeritus of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of New York. Brown received his B.S.B.A. from Bucknell University and attended the Wharton Business School's Advanced Management Program. Before becoming Dean, he served as a member of the INSEAD Board and as Chairman of the school's US Council. |
Previous Deans at JAC
In 2009 Sir Andrew Likierman, Dean, London Business School and John Wells, President, IMD addressed the JAC conference.
Sir Andrew Likierman, Dean, London Business School
Sir Likierman is Professor of Management Practice at London Business School. He is currently a non-executive Director of Barclays Bank plc and Chairman of Applied Intellectual Capital, an AIM-listed US technology incubator. In the public sector Andrew was a member of the Cabinet Office Central Policy Review Staff (the "Think Tank") and spent a 10-year period as one of the Managing Directors of the UK Treasury and Head of the UK Government Accountancy Service. He is currently a non-executive Director of the Bank of England and Deputy Chairman of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. At London Business School he was the founder director of the Executive MBA programme and has lectured on all the School's major degree and executive programmes. In his professional capacity, Andrew is a past President of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and was for several years a member of the Financial Reporting Council. He has advised the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee and has been a member of a number of official inquiries, including North Sea oil costs, international comparisons of telecommunications and posts and accounting for changing prices. He chaired a government study on professional liability. In the field of corporate governance, he was a member of the "Cadbury Committee" on UK corporate governance, chaired a corporate governance review for the Public Sector Committee of the International Federation of Accountants and was a member of the steering committee for the review of oversight and governance of the United Nations.
John Wells, President of IMD and Holder of The Nestlé Professor Chair
Professor Wells graduated from Oxford University with first class honours in Nuclear and Solid State Physics and received his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1979, graduating Valedictorian and a George F Baker Scholar. After working for two years with the Boston Consulting Group, he joined the Harvard faculty to teach Industry and Competitor Analysis and Business Policy. In 1982 John Wells was awarded a Dean's Doctoral Fellowship. In 1986, John Wells became Chief Executive of Monitor Company Europe Ltd, a subsidiary of the firm he helped co-found with Michael Porter and Mark Fuller. He built the European practice, and directed strategy studies for numerous firms and national governments. In 1994 he joined PepsiCo, initially as CFO of the European snacks division. He was then appointed CEO of Wedel, a PepsiCo affiliate and Poland's number one chocolate, biscuits, confectionery and snacks producer. In 1997 he was appointed CFO of Frito-Lay International with responsibility for all international snack operations. In 1999, Professor Wells was invited to join the executive board of Thomson Travel Group, the UK's largest holiday company, responsible for the Group's strategy, mergers and acquisitions and e-commerce development. During his career, Wells has been an advisor and angel investor in a number of start-ups, and in early 2002, joined Archie Norman, the ex-Chairman of ASDA in the UK, in a $1.3 billion management buy-in of Energis, the UK's third largest telecommunications service provider where he served on the Board and as Chairman of the Audit Committee. Energis was sold in 2005. In the summer of 2002, he rejoined the Harvard Business School faculty as the James M. Collins Fund Senior Lecturer in Strategy. In August 2003, he was appointed Professor of Management practice. He taught the core strategy course in the MBA program, his own elective on Strategic Agility and numerous executive programs. In the process he wrote over 30 cases and teaching note
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