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Kofi Annan Keynote Presentation

Kofi Annan SF'72, SM '72: October 11, 2002; Running Time: 00:39:30

About the Lecture

About the Lecture

Addressing an issue that he deems pivotal to the world's future, Annan advocated values-based management and urged corporations to uphold their obligations to citizens and the global community. He praised initiatives that have advanced values-based management, most notably the United Nation's Global Compact, in which several MIT Sloan professors play key roles.

Lecture Details

Location: Wong Auditorium

About the Speaker

Kofi Annan SF'72, SM '72

Secretary-General of the United Nations

Kofi Annan SF'72, SM '72

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About the Host

About the Host

MIT Sloan School of Management

The MIT Sloan School of Management, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is one of the world’s leading business schools — conducting cutting-edge research and providing management education to top students from more than 60 countries. The School is part of MIT’s rich intellectual tradition of education and research.

MIT Sloan began in 1914 as engineering administration curriculum in the MIT Department of Economics and Statistics. The scope and depth of this educational focus have grown steadily in response to advances in the theory and practice of management to today’s broad-based management school.

A program offering a master’s degree in management was established in 1925. The world’s first university-based executive education program — the MIT Sloan Fellows — was created in 1931 under the sponsorship of Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., an 1895 MIT graduate who was then chairman of General Motors. A MIT Sloan Foundation grant established the MIT School of Industrial Management in 1952 with a charge of educating the “ideal manager.”