Foreword

On the Eve of Management Education’s Finest Hour

By David L. Cooperrider

Nearly 12 years ago I joined with Nobel Laureate Kofi Annan, then Secretary General of the United Nations, and hundreds of CEOs from corporations such as Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Daiwa Asset Management Ltd, Siemens AG, IBM, Tata Industries, Novo Nordisk, China Mobile, Royal Dutch Shell, Dow, Coca-Cola, Starbucks, Novartis, and others such as the microenterprise pioneer Grameen Bank. Unexpectedly, at this Leaders Summit in the UN’s General Assembly Hall, we learned that we shared a common conviction: that business has the opportunity to be one of the most positive and creative forces on the planet, and that the epic transition to a world economy of “full spectrum ...

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