Dinner with HBS Professor Stephen Kaufman: Disruptive Growth
Professor Kaufman will discuss how disruptive growth occurs, why upstart companies seem to beat incumbents with disruptive products or services so often, and what the incumbents could do to prevent themselves from being disrupted by these upstarts.
Join us for a Reception, Dinner and to hear Professor Kaufman discuss how
disruptive growth occurs, why upstart companies seem to beat incumbents
with disruptive products or services so often, and what the incumbents
could do to prevent themselves from being disrupted by these upstarts.
Stephen P. Kaufman has been a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration
at the Harvard Business School since 2001. He teaches in both the MBA
program and various Executive Education programs. His MBA courses
include the first year required course in Technology and Operations
Management and the second year elective Building and Sustaining the
Successful Enterprise, which was developed by Clay Christensen and
focuses on strategy and general management. This has become one of the
most popular elective course in the MBA curriculum with over half the
2nd year student body enrolling. The Classes of 2008 and 2011
recognized Kaufman with their Faculty Teaching Award and he was named a
recipient of the school’s recently established Charles M. Williams Award
for Excellence in Teaching.
Kaufman writes, lectures, and
consults about board and corporate governance, operations and supply
chain management, acquisition strategy and integration, and creating
disruptive growth through innovative business models and technologies.
He is the retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Arrow
Electronics, Inc. (NYSE), which he joined in 1982. He was appointed
President and Chief Operating Officer of the corporation in1985, added
the Chairman’s title in 1994, and retired in 2002. During his tenure
Arrow grew from a $500 million USA centric corporation to a $12 billion
global enterprise ranking within the top 200 companies on the Fortune
500 list. In 2005 Electronics Business magazine named Kaufman one of
the ten most influential executives in the electronics industry over the
past 25 years.
Prior to joining Arrow, he served in executive
capacities with Midland-Ross Corporation and for ten years was with the
international management consulting firm, McKinsey and Company, where he
was a partner in their Cleveland office focusing on strategy and
operations issues for industrial clients.
He currently serves on
the Boards of Directors of Harris Corporation (NYSE) andKLA-Tencor
(NASDQ). In addition, he is on the Board of Directors of Tyrian
Corporation a privately held company. He also serves on the Boards of
several philanthropic and arts organizations in Boston.
He
earned his B.S. degree in economics and engineering from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963 and an MBA degree from
Harvard Business School in 1965. He received an honorary Doctorate
Degree from Dowling College in 1995 and was awarded a Distinguished
Alumni Achievement Award from the Harvard Business School in 1997.
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Location: The Centre Club, 123 South Westshore Blvd, Tampa, FL 33609
Time: Reception: 6:00 PM; Dinner: 7:00 PM
Cost: Active Members & Guests: $35 each; Non-Members & Guests: $45 each