Asia Business Conference 2007 at Harvard Business School

Because of your suggestions, we have obtained permission from a few conference speakers to post their slides on the web page. They are available below.

• Hideki Komiyama; Sony Corporation; Keynote (speech, slides)
• Carl Hirano; CA MOBILE, LTD; Wireless Telecommunications (slides)
• Masaaki Maeda; NTT DoCoMo USA; Wireless Telecommunications (slides)
• Jong Nam Oh; International Monetary Fund; Executive Plenary (slides) and Aftermath of Asian Financial Crisis (slides)

All participants may check in at the Meredith Room in Spangler Hall at the Harvard Business School. Directions to HBS are available here; there will be signs directing you to the correct place. You may also register at the door, if you have not already done so online.

Those who have registered for the Conference may now access a special participants-only section. You can submit your résumés there. Please be advised that small group lunches are full. Just click the link under the photos to the left.

The Asia Business Conference aims to foster meaningful discussion on policies and trends that dominate the business and legal institutions of modern Asia. To this end, the conference organizes a series of keynote speeches, plenary sessions, topical panels, and social events featuring distinguished leaders from industry, government, and academia who have intimate experience with Asia. It is jointly organized by the Harvard Business School, Harvard Law School, and Kennedy School of Government.

This year's theme is "Transformation and Sustainability." The conference will focus on the rapid transformation Asia is undergoing as a result of internal and external pressures. Faced with such transformation, Asian political and business leaders are trying to create a model of growth and development that is not only fast but sustainable. The conference examines whether transformation and sustainability can be reconciled into a dynamic yet stable Asia.

The conference will take place on February 10-11, 2007, at the Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts. Confirmed speakers include:

• Hideki Komiyama, Executive Vice President, Corporate Executive of the Sony Corporation, Chairman of Sony Electronics (SEL), USA
• Charles Ormiston, Partner, Bain & Company
• Katsuhiro Nakagawa, Vice Chairman of the Board & Managing Director, Toyota Motor Corporation
• Matthew Ginsburg, Head of Asia-Pacific Investment Banking Department, Morgan Stanley
• David Rubenstein, Co-Founder & Managing Director, The Carlyle Group
• Chan Heng Chee, Ambassador to the United States, Singapore Embassy in Washington, D.C.
• Chan Yeng Kit, CEO, Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore
• Teresa Curran, Group Vice President & Deputy Director, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
• Virginia Foote, Executive Vice President, U.S.-ASEAN Business Council
• Jeffrey Li, Country President, Novartis China
• Jong Nam Oh, Former Executive Director, International Monetary Fund
• Donald Tang, Vice Chairman, Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc.
• H. Roger Wang, Chairman & CEO, Golden Eagle International Group

Please read the Speakers page for biographical details.

Information about previous years' conferences is available through the following links:

• (2006) Asia, Inc.: Integration and Differentiation
• (2005) Adding Value in Asia: From Outsourcing to Innovation
• (2004) Globalization: The Modern Silk Road?
• (2003) Reinventing Asia
• (2002) Phoenix Rising