Harry M. Kaiser is the Gellert Family Professor of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University. He teaches and conducts research in the areas of price analysis, marketing, industrial organization, policy, and quantitative methods. Professor Kaiser has written 100 journal articles, three books, 17 book chapters, and over 200 research bulletins in these areas. He has received over $7 million in research grants from such agencies as the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the New York Department of Agriculture and Markets. The primary focus of Professor Kaiser's research has been on the social implications of agricultural demand and supply policies aimed at improving producers' economic welfare.
Since 1994, Professor Kaiser has been the director of the Cornell Commodity Promotion Research Program. Much of his research focuses on the market-wide economic effects of commodity advertising and promotion programs. Currently, Professor Kaiser and his staff annually conduct the economic analysis required by the U.S. Congress for the national dairy and fluid milk processor advertising programs. More recently, Professor Kaiser has worked in the area of experimental economics, with an emphasis on the private provision of public goods. Professor Kaiser also was involved with some of the first research that investigated the economic impacts of climate change on the U.S. agricultural sector.
Harry Kaiser received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire aqnd his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.
Barry Salzberg was elected as Chief Executive Officer of Deloitte LLP in June 2007, after serving as the U.S. Managing Partner from 2003 to 2007. He also is a member of Deloitte's U.S. Board of Directors, the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Global Executive Committee, and the DTT Global Board of Directors.
Salzberg joined Deloitte in 1977 and was admitted as partner in 1985. He has since built an impressive record through a variety of leadership roles including Tri-State Group Managing Partner from 1996-1999 and National Tax Deputy Managing Partner from 1999-2000. In 2000, he assumed full leadership of the Deloitte Tax LLP practice, which included regional responsibility for the Americas tax practice. During Salzberg's three-year tenure, the national Deloitte Tax practice increased its market share significantly, moving from 4th position to 1st, and received numerous awards and citations.
Prior to his leadership roles, Salzberg was a lead client service partner and tax partner and became an acknowledged authority in the areas of personal tax and partnership tax matters. He directly served the CXOs of many large clients, helping them with their personal tax and financial planning needs, as well as partnerships and S corporations, mostly law firms or merger and acquisition specialists.
Salzberg is a member of the New York State Bar Association, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, and the New York County Lawyers Association. He is also a board member of business organizations including the Center for Audit Quality, Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy, and the Partnership for New York. Additionally, Salzberg is an advisor to the G100.
Barry Salzberg received his undergraduate degree in Accounting from Brooklyn College, his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School, and his LLM in Taxation from the New York University School of Law.
Jim Nowak is recently retired from teaching at Fairport High School. He has spent the last three years rebuilding schools in Western Kenya. He recently began an organization called Building Futures that focuses on school construction in Africa.
Jim Nowak is a graduate of Cornell University.
John Nesheim is an engineer and veteran of Silicon Valley. Since 1976, he has focused his research on how to do a high-tech start-up. His research findings led to discovery of the "14 Steps to IPO," which are documented in his best-selling book, "High Tech Start Up". Translated into four languages, the book is used around the world by entrepreneurs, investors, governments, universities, corporations, and Wall Street to increase understanding of entrepreneurial effectiveness. His second book, "Unfair Advantage", was released in early 2005.
Nesheim founded his company, the Nesheim Group, to gather best practices of professionals from around the world who are dedicated to improving the process of converting an idea to a world-class enterprise. He conducts workshops for entrepreneurs and the venture community, gathers research for his publications and coaches new enterprises.
Nesheim also serves as a Lecturer of Entrepreneurship at Cornell University's Johnson School.
John Nesheim earned his B.S. in Engineering with honors at the University of Minnesota and his MBA at Cornell University.
Andrew Savitz is a creative business leader, advisor, author and speaker, with over 20 years of hands-on experience assisting corporation to become leaders in sustainability and environmental performance and reporting. An internationally known expert on corporate social responsibility and sustainability, Savitz is the author of The Triple Bottom Line: How the Best Run Companies are Achieving Economic, Social and Environmental Success - and How You Can Too (Wiley, August 2006).
As a lead partner in PricewaterhouseCooper's global Sustainability Business Services practice, Savitz was PwC's liaison delegate to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and represented the firm on environmental and sustainability related matters at the Conference Board. Savitz authored PwC's widely cited 2002 Sustainability Survey- the first of its kind in the United States.
Now working as a senior consultant at Sustainable Business Strategies, Savitz assists companies to assess, design, develop and implement sustainability programs from vision to reporting, including policies, procedures and programs related to human rights, supply chain management, HIV/AIDS, political contributions, environmental, health and safety management and compliance, community and investor relations, codes of conduct, and international and national standards and guidelines including the United Nations Global Compact, the Global Reporting Initiative, the CERES principles, the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, and the McBride principles.
Prior to PwC, Savitz served as General Counsel in the Massachusetts Office of Environmental Affairs. He directed all legal matters for the Commonwealth related to environmental affairs, environmental law, regulations and policy. As the Commonwealth's first Assistant Secretary for Environmental Law Enforcement, he was instrumental in creating the Massachusetts Environmental Crime Strike Force which coordinated the environmental enforcement of criminal and civil laws throughout Massachusetts. Savitz also worked on the regulatory and policy aspects of Environmental Impact Assessments under the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act (MEPA), and on efforts to improve the Commonwealth's hazardous waste cleanup, air pollution control and coastal zone development laws.
While attending Georgetown University Law Center at night, Savitz was a staff member for United States House of Representatives, Commerce, Consumer and Monetary Affairs Subcommittee. He conceived and organized hearings on regulatory policy related to finance and consumer protection. He drafted the Corporate Democracy Act, which was introduced to Congress in 1980 and presaged many of the corporate governance issues being debated today.
Andy Savitz is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, where he was an editor of the Georgetown University Law Review. He attended New College Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, earning a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He received his undergraduate degree from The Johns Hopkins University.
K.L. Wong is a Managing Director of Merrill Lynch (Asia Pacific) Ltd. He is in charge of Merrill Lynch's investment banking businesses in Hong Kong, including assisting clients with strategic and corporate finance advisory and execution. He is the leader of the Merrill Lynch team advising the Hong Kong Government on the privatisation of MTR Corporation and the team leader in advising the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited in relation to the proposed merger between The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited and The Hong Kong Futures Exchange Limited.
Prior to joining Merrill Lynch in 1993, he worked in CS First Boston (H.K.) Limited, Standard Chartered Asia Limited, Chemical Bank and Export Credit Insurance Corporation Limited.
K.L. Wong is a graduate of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Indra Nooyi is the chairman and chief executive officer of PepsiCo, the world's fourth-largest food and beverage company. She is the fifth CEO in PepsiCo's 42-year history. Prior to being named CEO on Augst 14, 2006, she had been serving as president and CFO since 2001.
According to the polls Forbes magazine conducted, Nooyi ranks fifth on the 2007 list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women. In addition, Nooyi has been named the #1 Most Powerful Woman in Business in 2006 and 2007 by Fortune magazine.
Prior to joining PepsiCo in 1994, Nooyi worked at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Motorola and ABB.
Indra Nooyi received a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Madras Christian College and immediately entered the PGDBA (Post-Graduate Diploma in Business Administration) program at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. She also received a master's degree in Management from the Yale School of Management.
Robert E. Bixby is a noted authority on the theory and practice of optimization. He is Research Professor of Management in Rice University's Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management and Research Professor and Noah Harding Professor Emeritus of computational and applied mathematics at Rice University's Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics.
Dr. Bixby has held academic positions at Cornell University, University of Kentucky, and Northwestern University. He has held visiting faculty positions at University of Wisconsin-Madison; Institut fur Operations Research in Bonn, Germany; Institut fur Mathematik der Universitat Augsburg, Germany; and, he received a Humboldt Foundation Senior Scientist Award which supported his work at the Konrad-Zuse Zentrum fur Informations Technik and the Technische Universitat in Berlin, Germany.
Dr. Bixby is Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Matheon DFG Research Center, Mathematics for Key Technologies (www.matheon.de). He is formerly Vice President and President of the Mathematical Programming Society and co-founder of CPLEX Optimization. CPLEX Optimization was sold to ILOG, Inc. in 1997. Dr. Bixby was an ILOG board member from 1997 to 2000, President of the ILOG Technical Advisory Board, and ILOG's Chief Scientific Officer. In 1997, Dr. Bixby was elected to the National Academy of Engineering and is a charter member of The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas (TAMEST).
Robert Bixby earned a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of California-Berkeley and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Operations Research from Cornell University.
Alex Gartner has worked in the entertainment industry for over a decade as a producer as well as senior executive at two major studios and has most recently concentrated on producing.
In 2004 Garter joined Atlas Entertainment as a producing partner with Mosaic partner and Atlas Entertainment founder Charles Roven. Gartner produced New Line's critically acclaimed The Upside of Anger, directed by Mike Binder and starring Joan Allen, Kevin Costner, Erika Christensen, Evan Rachel Wood, Alicia Witt and Keri Russell. Previously he produced MGM's Barbershop 2: Back in Business, which starred Ice Cube and Cedric The Entertainer, and was Executive Producer on Out of Time, starring Denzel Washington.
Prior to that Gartner was President of Production at MGM Studios where he supervised the entire production slate, including such movies as Die Another Day, Barbershop, Legally Blond and Heartbreakers.
After producing Indecent Proposal for Paramount in 1993, Gartner became Executive Vice President at Fox 2000, having started the division with President Laura Ziskin. At Fox 2000 he worked on such films as Soul Food, Fight Club, Courage Under Fire and Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line.
Gartner has also worked in production in television commercials and with directors such as Martin Brest on production for Scent of a Woman.
These clips are from a panel presented by the Cornell Entrepreneur Network entitled, "Changes in the Content, Marketing, and Distribution of Entertainment".
Alex Gartner is a graduate of Cornell University.