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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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