Liautaud Graduate School of Business Fall Speakers

IDS 523 Speaker Series
November 1, 2007

• 6:00pm – 8:30pm
• 220 Stevenson Hall
• Ellen Barry, CIO of Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, will speak on the topic of "Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity."

Real Estate Development: The Project and Process
November 1, 2007

• 6:00pm
• 120 Taft Hall
• Ron Shipka, Jr., Principal, The Enterprise Companies
• Ron is the president of the largest condo developer in the city of Chicago and one of the largest developers in the country. Learn how the big deals are conceived and completed. Update on current market conditions will also be provided. This is a rare and unique opportunity to learn about real estate development.

GMARK Speaker Event: Professor Stephan Melmed- Tres Design, UIC IPD Course
November 3, 2007

• 6:00pm -7:30pm
• Additional information about this event will be available soon. Please check back here for updates.

MBA Guest Speaker: Patrick Evans
November 7, 2007

• 4:45pm
• Cardinal Room, Student Center East
• MBA students, as well as undergraduate juniors and seniors, are invited to attend a presentation by Patrick Evans, the author of SalesBURST, an entrepreneurial sales training program. Evans is best known for starting EVCOR, a software/integration firm, out of his house in Downers Grove and selling it for $60 million.

ICFD Seminar Series
Professor Andrew Lo
“What Happened to the Quants in August 2007”
November 9, 2007

• 3:30pm
• Chicago Board Options Exchange, Members Lounge
• 400 South LaSalle Street
• Professor Andrew Lo, Harris and Harris Group Professor at MIT and director of the MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, will kick off the seminar series that is being co-sponsored by the International Center for Futures and Derivatives and The Stevanovich Center for Financial Mathematics (University of Chicago). Registration is required and can be accessed by visiting https://web.cba.uic.edu/seminar_series/webform1.aspx. For more information about the series, please visit http://www.uic.edu/cba/icfd/seminars.html or contact Angela Prazza (prazza@uic.edu; 312-996-5547).

IDS 523 Speaker Series
November 29, 2007

• 6:00pm – 8:30pm
• 220 Stevenson Hall
• Susan Gajda, VP Audit & Performance and John Gatto, Senior Director of IT Audit and Advisory Services of HCHS will speak about an advisory business case.