Leading Strategic Partnerships

with Duncan Simester, MIT professor

What you'll learn:

The keynote speaker at this year's conference is Duncan Simester, professor at M.I.T.  Duncan has been instrumental in leading ESAs through his Business Strategy Framework to inform their strategic business decisions.   This conference is intended for ESA leadership teams from across the country to learn how to partner with non-profit and for-profit organizations.  Your team will walk away with an understanding of whether you should strategically enter into a new partnership and if you do, how to sustain that partnership once it is off the ground. 

Duncan Simester is a professor at M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management where he holds the NTU Chair in Management Science. He is an expert on how economics and operations research can contribute to the understanding and practice of marketing and strategy. While his work is widely published in the academic literature, the findings are also relevant to ESAs. Duncan has a PhD from MIT. Prior to joining the faculty at MIT he was a professor at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.   He is also a qualified lawyer and member of the Bar in his native New Zealand.