Harvard’s is not the only business school celebrating its 100th birthday this year. In an evening gala event last Friday at Chicago’s Museum of Modern Art, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management last Friday launched a centennial celebration of its own to commemorate 100 years of innovation in management education.
“Kellogg is a different kind of business school, dedicated to the ideal that graduates can be a force for positive social change in the world,” said Dean Dipak Jain in a statement announcing the centennial kick-off. “In times of economic uncertainty such as this, it is imperative that the next generation of business leaders not only has the greater good in mind, but also can work in teams to effectively address new challenges,” he continued.
Kellogg’s centennial celebrations will look not only at ways in which Kellogg has changed the face of management education – but also at ways it will continue to evolve the MBA degree, Jain said.
In the year ahead, Kellogg has planned a series of events both academic and social around the globe to mark the school’s 100th birthday while engaging current students, alumni, faculty and others in an examination of what makes Kellogg Kellogg.
Centennial celebrations – including an arts festival, a roundtable on building a global brand, an innovation summit and more – have been planned in London, San Francisco, and Mexico City as well as on Kellogg’s Evanston and Chicago campuses.
A centennial conference series, meanwhile, will explore topics ranging from customer-centric innovation to corporate sustainability to the future of capital markets. These events, too, will span the globe, with events planned for Miami, Shanghai, New York and Zurich.
Further commemorating Kellogg’s centennial is a new book chronicling the school’s first century. Written by Matt Golosinski, Kellogg editorial director, Wide Awake in the Windy City combines archival material, first-person narrative and more than 100 photographs to trace Kellogg’s rise from its 1908 start as a part-time evening program in Chicago’s loop to its current standing as one of the foremost business schools in the world.
Finally, Kellogg has launched a centennial website, where complete details about all related news and events can be found. Click here to visit: http://centennial.kellogg.northwestern.edu/
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