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June 5-6, 2012
Yale CEO Summit
Yale CEO College
New York Stock Exchange

 

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December 14 - 15, 2011
Yale CEO Summit
Yale CEO College
Waldorf=Astoria, Manhattan 

The Yale CEO Summit:  The Chief Executive Leadership Institute will bring together more than 100 distinguished global leaders from across industries to engage in lively, candid discussions on the umbrella theme of Rethinking Global Markets: Leading Businesses across Divergent National Economies at this invitation-only leaders’ conference. For More Info  Attendee List   Agenda   Press Release Liveris    Press Release Greenberg

The Yale CEO College:  The one-day executive roundtable will feature moderated open discussion with leading business scholars from around the country.  For More Info

November 15, 2011
Yale CEO Caucus
Washington, D.C.

The Yale CEO Caucus:  The Chief Executive Leadership Institute hosts renowned CEOs and leading Policy makers in a discussion on Putting America Back to Work.

June 7 - 8, 2011
Yale CEO Summit

Yale CEO College
New York Stock Exchange

This spring the Chief Executive Leadership Institute returned to the New York Stock Exchange for the 66th gathering of the Yale CEO Summit, the nation's first CEO college.  The theme for the conference was "Settling Old Debts While Taking on New Risks".

December 15 - 16, 2010
Yale CEO Summit

Yale CEO College
Manhattan

October 25 - 26, 2010
Yale CEO Global Leadership Summit
Mumbai, India

October 10 - 11, 2010
Yale CEO Global Leadership Summit
Shanghai, China

 

News

The Chief Executive Leadership Institute at the Yale School of Management will host its inaugural Yale CEO Caucus in Washington, DC, on November 15. The quarterly roundtable will convene business leaders, political leaders, and scholars to discuss the business implications of urgent national and global events that span economics, diplomacy, security, energy, environment, regulation, and politics. The theme of the first event is “Putting America Back to Work.”   
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We will offer quarterly CEO Caucuses in the heart of our nation’s capitol welcoming leading policy makers, legislators, key experts and top administration officials to discuss the business implications of urgent global events on economic, diplomatic, security, energy, environmental, regulatory, and political fronts.   For More Information

Jeff Sonnenfeld discusses MF Global’s announcement of CEO Jon Corzine’s resignation, “He was out to prove something, and the board was star struck…they allowed outrageous risk-taking…his interests and the interests of his enterprise were going down different paths.”   Watch CNBC Video

Rupert Murdoch, says Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, represents the “monarch” style of leadership – those who “don’t like succession, whose heroic identity is tied to their job”. Murdoch is a “media baron with newsprint under his fingernails” and “investors often buy into the charisma, but there is a downside – the scandals of course, circulation problems, the whistleblower being fired…”   Watch CNBC Video

Jeff Sonnenfeld offered his viewpoint on the announcement of IBM’s new CEO Virginia Rometty, “She is an incredibly effective salesperson. She’s really earned her stripes.”   Watch the CNBC video

Commenting on the challenges faced by Steve Jobs’ successor, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld said, “The challenge for Cook and his executive team will be to maintain Jobs’s legacy without being hobbled by it.”  

Read the Businessweek article