The Krannert School of Management will help kick off the Purdue Sesquicentennial celebration in fall 2018 with a series of high-profile events, including a conference, a pair of speakers series and an entrepreneuership symposium.
Giant Leaps
Krannert to help kick off the Purdue Sesquicentennial celebration
Spring 2018
Purdue University Krannert School of Management
The Krannert School of Management will help kick off the Purdue Sesquicentennial celebration in fall 2018 with a series of high-profile events, including a conference, a pair of speakers series and an alumni symposium.
It begins with the Dauch Center for the Management of Manufacturing Enterprises (DCMME), which will hold its annual fall conference on September 28 in the Purdue Memorial Union. DCMME has been the focal point within the Krannert School for promoting education, research and industrial engagement in operations and manufacturing management for more than three decades. This year’s event will focus on the topic of “Manufacturing Competitiveness: Technology, Agility and Personalization.”
Next on the agenda is the 18th annual Leadership Speakers Series on October 11, 2018, which is hosted by the Krannert School and the Boiler Business Exchange of Indianapolis and will once again take place at the Indiana Roof Ballroom in Indianapolis.
Taking “A Night of Champions” as its theme, the event will feature a discussion with Mike Bobinski, Purdue vice president and director of Intercollegiate Athletics; Ukari Figgs, a mechanical engineer and member of the Boilermakers’ 1999 NCAA women’s basketball championship team as well as former WNBA champions the Los Angeles Sparks; former Purdue men’s basketball All-American and current ESPN broadcaster Robbie Hummel; and former Purdue men’s football player Matt Light, who won three Super Bowls with the New England Patriots and now devotes his time to humanitarian efforts.
On October 16, Krannert will welcome bestselling author Michael Lewis for the Purdue Series on Corporate Citizenship and Ethics, a unique collaboration between the School of Management and College of Education's James F. Ackerman Center for Democratic Citizenship.
Lewis, a non-fiction writer and financial journalist, is the author of Liar’s Poker, Moneyball, The Blindside and The Big Short, among other works. His latest book, The Undoing Project, explores how the friendship between two Nobel Prize-winning pioneers of behavioral economics incited a revolution in Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine and led to a new approach to government regulation.
Krannert’s events for the Purdue Sesquicentennial will conclude with Boilermakers by the Bay, a symposium on entrepreneurship at the Sharon Heights Golf and Country Club in Menlo Park, California, on October 23. A collaboration between the School of Management, the College of Engineering and Purdue Foundry, the event will feature speakers from both academia and industry.
Purdue's 150th anniversary theme will be “Giant Leaps,” inspired by Neil Armstrong’s historic statement on the moon, and the centerpiece of the celebration will be a yearlong Ideas Festival as Boilermakers everywhere reflect on the past, embrace the present and look to the future.
Kicking off during Homecoming 2018, Purdue will spend a year taking on some of the most pressing challenges and opportunities the world faces. The year will also be an opportunity to look back on a century and a half of serving as one of the nation’s leading land-grant universities.
“The Giant Leaps theme speaks both to Purdue’s contributions of research and action to the expansion of human understanding, and to the countless leaps our graduates have made to successful individual careers and lives,” Purdue President Mitch Daniels said.
