Title: Charting Business Success by Empowering Female Leaders
Date: Oct 23 (Thursday), 2024
Venue: Shanghai, China
Organizer: CKGSB
With the participation of UNGC
Focusing on empowering women at senior levels, the Women in Leadership Form has become a flagship event jointly held since 2013 by the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB) and UN Women.
As a platform for empowering female leaders, promoting gender equality in the workplace, celebrating success stories, and offering opportunities to create positive change, the Women in Leadership Forum offers unique insights from distinguished leaders, such as Sheryl Sandberg (former Facebook’s COO), Barbara Woodward (then British Ambassador to China), Jan Adams (then Australian Ambassador to China) and Jean Liu (President of Didi Chuxing Technology Co), among many others.
At the 2024 Women in Leadership Forum, with the participation of United Nations Global Compact, we will focus on female successors in the family business and the advancement of women’s leadership across various sectors in China and around the world.
Phone: +86 10 8518 8858 ext. 3803
E-mail: htli@ckgsb.edu.cn
Dean, Dean’s Distinguished Chair Professor of Finance, and Director of the Family Business Research Center, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB)
PhD, Yale University
Areas of Expertise: Asset Pricing, Continuous-Time Finance, Credit Risk, Financial Engineering and Derivatives, Financial Management, Hedge Funds, Insurance, Investment, Option Pricing, Term Structure
Biography
Dr Li Haitao is the Dean, Dean’s Distinguished Chair Professor of Finance, and Director of the Family Business Research Center at CKGSB. Previously, he was the Jack D. Sparks Whirlpool Corporation Research Professor in the Finance Department of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He also served on the faculty of the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. Dr Li serves on the editorial boards of Management Science (the Department of Finance) and the International Review of Finance. Dr Li holds a PhD in Finance from Yale University.
Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, Associate Dean for Inclusivity, Diversity and Equity, Executive Academic Director for Executive Education and Director of the Research Center for Leadership, Behavioral Science & Inclusivity, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB)
PhD, the R.H. Smith School of Business at University of Maryland, College Park
Areas of Expertise: Corporate Governance, Creativity and Innovation, C-suite Motivation, Empowerment, Interactional Relationships, Leadership, Leader Support, Motivation
Biography
Professor Zhang Xiaomeng is Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, Associate Dean for Inclusivity, Diversity and Equity, Executive Academic Director for Executive Education, and Director of the Research Center for Leadership, Behavioral Science & Inclusivity at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business. Prior to joining CKGSB, she was a tenured Associate Professor at the Kogod School of Business at American University in Washington DC. Her research interests are in the areas of creativity, leadership and motivation, with a desire to understand the relationships between all those areas.
Professor Zhang has published articles in multiple top academic journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies and Human Resource Management Review.
Professor Zhang has taught Principles of Management, Organizational Behavior, Management of Organization and Human Capital, Business Policies, International Business Practices in China, and HR Management. She earned a BA with emphasis in Economics and Business Administration from Sun Yat-sen University, China and a PhD in Organizational Behavior/Human Resource Management from the R.H. Smith School of Business at University of Maryland, College Park with a Paine Award for outstanding academic achievement and several teaching awards.
“Highly Cited Chinese Researchers of 2020” by Elsevier
“Highly Cited Chinese Researchers of 2019” by Elsevier
Rui (Juliet) Zhu is Professor of Marketing, Director of Center for ESG and Social Innovation and Member of the Board of Supervisors of the Cheung Kong Education Development Foundation at the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB). Prior to joining CKGSB, Juliet was associate professor of marketing, and Canada Research Chair in consumer behavior at the University of British Columbia (BC, Canada) and assistant professor of marketing at Rice University (USA). She received her Ph.D. in Marketing from University of Minnesota in 2003.
Prof. Zhu’s research interests center on behavioral science, social innovation, and brand management. Her research has been published in top journals, such as Science, Journal of Consumer Research, and Journal of Marketing Research. She currently serves as associate editor for the Journal of Marketing. She has published two books, “Enterprises of the Future: A Three-step Approach for Sustainable Business” in 2020, and “Logic of Decision: Behavioral Psychology in Everyday Life” in 2022.
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