Wharton Executive Education Program to Feature Former Indianapolis Mayor Stephen Goldsmith
Pioneer in revitalizing urban neighborhoods will address Wharton Fellows Master Class June 26-28, 2005, in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C. (PRWEB) June 9, 2005 -- Wharton
Executive Education today announced that Stephen Goldsmith, two-term mayor
of Indianapolis and a pioneer in revitalizing urban neighborhoods, will address
senior executives at a Wharton Fellows “Master Class” later this month. The
Wharton Executive Education program will be held June 26-28, 2005, at the Ritz
Carlton in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
Goldsmith
attracted national attention with his innovative models for delivering city
services and revitalizing city neighborhoods through partnerships with community
organizations. These innovations, in America’s 12th largest city, became models
for cities across the United States. His initiatives to improve child support
led to an increase of $900,000 in support payments during his two terms as
mayor. Goldsmith also served as Special Advisor to President Bush on faith-based
and not-for profit initiatives and chief domestic policy advisor to the Bush
campaign.
Goldsmith currently is Daniel Paul Professor of Government at
Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government where he directs the
Innovations in American Government Program. Goldsmith’s new book with William D.
Eggers, “Governing by Network: The New Shape of the Public Sector,” offers
perspectives on the collaboration needed to achieve public goals such as
homeland security.
According to Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell,
the book “answers one of the most important public policy questions of our time:
how public officials can achieve results and ensure accountability to citizens
in an age in which government relies more and more on partners to do the
public's business. This comes at a time when the pressure on government to
deliver better service for less money has become intense.”
The Wharton Fellows Master Class in Washington will also feature
presentations by U.S. Senator Rick Santorum, the Republican Party’s
third-ranking leader in the Senate, former Congressional Budget Office director
Alice Rivlin, former White House senior advisor Amitai Etzioni, Deputy Secretary
of the Department of Homeland Security Jim Loy and former IRS Commissioner
Charles Rossotti, among a diverse set of distinguished presenters.
For
more information, see an earlier press release, Wharton Executive Education Program to Examine “Working with
Government” from Sarbanes-Oxley to Homeland Security.
The Wharton Fellows program is a unique post-graduate executive
education program. This lifelong learning network of faculty and executives from
diverse industries around the world examines key emerging issues in the business
environment and organizational transformation. Throughout the year, Fellows
gather for short “Master Classes” in different parts of the world, centered on
living cases with senior executives of top companies. Recent programs have
examined growth strategies with senior leaders of Starbucks, Costco and
Microsoft in Seattle; the entertainment industry with executives from Fox and
Mandalay Entertainment; Japanese and Chinese business with senior executives of
Toyota, Canon and Shanghai Bank in Tokyo and Shanghai; and Indian markets and
outsourcing with leaders of Infosys, Tata Motors and Hindustan Lever.
The
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is recognized
around the world for its academic strengths across every major discipline and at
every level of business education. Founded in 1881 as the first collegiate
business school in the nation, Wharton has approximately 4,600 undergraduate, MBA, Executive MBA, and doctoral
students, more than 8,000 participants in its executive
education programs annually, and an alumni network of more than 80,000
worldwide.
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