Wednesday, June 3, 2020
Boris Siperstein
Dear Fellow Houston/Penn Wharton alumni,
We again are pleased to extend an invitation for you to join us in a discussion with Wharton Professor Mauro Guillen. The discussion will be next Wednesday, June 3rd, 1pm central. Professor Guillen will discuss with us issues covering:
- What the COVID recovery might look like across the world
- Firm/entity-level consequences, and how customer behavior may impact the go-forward reinterpretation of "business as usual"
- Macro level indications, backed by up-to-date data, of what may happen with regard to protectionism, economic inequality, and other factors
Professor Guillén
Mauro F. Guillén is the Zandman Professor in International Management at Wharton. An expert on global market trends, he is a sought-after speaker and consultant. He combines his training as a sociologist at Yale and as a business economist in his native Spain to methodically identify and quantify the most promising opportunities at the intersection of demographic, economic, and technological developments. His online classes on Coursera and edX have attracted over 100,000 participants from around the world. He has won multiple teaching awards at Wharton, as well as the Aspen Institute’s Faculty Pioneer Award. His research, op-eds, and commentary have been featured in numerous outlets, from the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal to The Economist, and the Financial Times.
His book on 2030: How Today’s Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything will be published by St. Martin’s in 2020, with translations into Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Romanian, Portuguese and Spanish.
As with last time, we may be limited in spots, so please register in advance to reserve space. There is no charge for joining. The registration link is:
Upon registering, you'll receive a confirmation email with instructions for how to join, including the ability to add the event to your calendar.
IMPORTANTLY: to make for a robust discussion, we ask and invite you to submit questions you want covered, in advance. To give us a chance to compile and organize the questions, we ask they be submitted before Tuesday, June 2nd, noon central. You can make your submission using the following form link:
Submit topics you'd like covered
We look forward to having you join us.
