HMC
Annenberg Leadership and Management Speaker Series 2010

This speaker series, supported by The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Fund for Leadership Development, engages the Harvey Mudd College community in important thought and discussion about the role of leadership in the world. Download postcard (pdf).

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Dina Dublon










Ethics, Free Market
and the CEO

Tuesday, Feb. 16, 5:30 p.m.

Dina Dublon

Former CFO of JPMorgan Chase

Dublon was chief financial officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., where she was responsible for the company's financial management and operations, strategy and acquisitions, corporate treasury and investor relations until her retirement from the company at the end of 2004. She is a member of the board of directors of Microsoft Corp, PepsiCo and Accenture. She is a life trustee of Carnegie Mellon University, on the board of the Global Fund for Women and co-chairs the Women's Refugee Commission.

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Nabeel Gareeb

Lemonade- Lessons from a Career of Fixits


Tuesday, March 2, 5:30 p.m.

Nabeel Gareeb ’86/87

Past CEO of MEMC Electronic Materials

Nabeel Gareeb served as the CEO at MEMC Electronic Materials, an international manufacturer of wafers for the semiconductor industry, where he led the redirection of the company which quadrupled revenues to $2 billion annually. Previously as COO of International Rectifier, Gareeb helped to quintuple the revenues of the company to $1 billion annually.

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Ernest Cockrell photo

"Life, Liberty, the
Pursuit of Happiness and Enterprise Leadership”



Tuesday, March 30, 5:30 p.m.

Ernest Cockrell

Chairman of Cockrell Interests Inc. and President and Director of The Cockrell Foundation

Formerly the Chairman and CEO of Cockrell Oil Corporation, Ernest Cockrell is a businessman and philanthropist. He is the Director and Chairman of Reasoning Mind, a non-profit organization founded in 2000 with the goal of providing a first-rate math education for every child in the United States.

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Alok Aggarwal photo

“Creativity, Innovation and Leadership”


Tuesday, April 6, 5:30 p.m.

Alok Aggarwal

Co-Founder and Chairman of Evalueserve

Alok Aggarwal is recognized internationally for innovations in business models. He expanded Evalueserve, a global delivery center, from five employees to 2,200. Prior to this, he was the Director of Emerging Business Opportunities for IBM Research Division Worldwide.

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Jennifer Chayes 
“Interdisciplinarity in the Age of Networks”

Tuesday, April 20, 5:30 p.m.

Jennifer Tour Chayes

Managing Director of the Microsoft Research New England Lab

Jennifer Tour Chayes manages the new Microsoft Research New England Lab in Cambridge, Mass. Her research areas include phase transitions in discrete mathematics and computer science.

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Jim Simons photo

“Mathematics, Common Sense and Good Luck“

Tuesday, April 27, 5:30 p.m.

James Simons

Founder and Chairman of Math for America and Board Chair of Renaissance Technologies

James Simons is President of Euclidean Capital, a family office, and Board Chair of Renaissance Technologies LLC, a highly quantitative investment firm, from which he retired in 2009 after many years as CEO.  Jim also founded Math for America, a non-profit organization with the mission to significantly improve math education in public schools.

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The series is being hosted by the Office of College Advancement. For more information, please call 909.607.7862.

Media Inquiries: Judy Augsburger, Senior Director of Advancement-Communications, 909.607.0713 or judy_augsburger@hmc.edu