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Speakers Bureau
The College of Business at the University of Illinois is home to many renowned business scholars, whose research is on the cutting edge of business and management thinking.
You and your organization are invited to hear one or more of these top faculty speakers at your next meeting, convention, or conference. Topics cover the latest trends in:
- Management
- Finance
- Marketing
- Strategy
- Policy
For bookings contact Barlow Levold, Assistant Director of Communications, via email or by phone at (217) 244-8146.
Additional speakers and topics are also available. Visit our Media Experts Database for an overview.
| How Unintended Consequences Impact Business | Lawrence DeBrock, PhD Dean, College of Business |
 Professor
DeBrock, a professor of economics, is the recipient of some 12 outstanding
faculty awards at the College of Business. He teaches courses in introductory
microeconomics and industrial competition and monopoly. Among his
research interests is the economics of sports. |
| What It Will Take to Save Social Security | Jeffrey
Brown, PhD Assistant Professor Of Finance |
 Professor
Brown is a former senior economist at the White House Council of Economic
Advisers and the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security.
Currently, he is a faculty research fellow with the National Bureau
of Economic Research and teaches insurance and corporate finance. |
| What Investors Need to Know About Changes in Corporate Dividend Policy | David
Ikenberry, PhD Chair Of Department Of Finance |
 The
winner of numerous awards for academic research, Professor Ikenberry
is an authority on investments and corporate finance. He also is cofounder
of the National Forum on Corporate Finance, a group that brings corporate
CFOs and treasurers together with leading academic researchers. |
| How Marketing Remade the Modern Wedding | Cele Otnes,
PhD Associate Professor Of Business Administration |
 Author
of the recently released Cinderella Dreams: The Allure of the Lavish
Wedding, (University of California Press, 2003), Professor Otnes
is an authority on ritual-based consumer behavior and how advertising
and marketing shape those rituals. She currently teaches retailing,
marketing management and promotions. |
| The Secrets to a Sustainable Competitive Advantage | Anju
Seth, PhD Professor Of Business Administration |
 Professor
Seth writes extensively on strategic issues. Her expertise includes
strategic management, acquisitions, restructuring, joint ventures,
international strategy and corporate governance. She has been cited
among "Most Popular Professors" in Business Week Online's
survey of Best Business Schools. |
| Are Enron-Inspired Accounting Reforms Working? | Ira
Solomon, PhD Professor And Head Of Department Of Accountancy |
 Professor
Solomon, a pioneer in the effort to modernize accounting education,
led the re-engineering of the College's accountancy curriculum now
being emulated by other business schools. He also is managing director-academic
of the KPMG/University of Illinois Business Measurement Case Development
& Research Program. |
