A chance for young scientists to network with academic and industry leaders in the pharmaceutical, biomedical and biological sciences.

Moving Targets is held this year in conjunction with the Annual AAPS Meeting and Exposition. This event promotes the interactions of young scientists in the pharmaceutical, biomedical and biological sciences with one another, as well as with academic leaders and members of the pharmaceutical industry.

This year's topic, "Drug Delivery and Therapeutics to the Tumor Microenvironment," will include presenters from industry, academia and medical health care.

The attendees will include academic and industry faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students from various national and international universities and colleges.

Speakers

• Hiroshi Maeda, M.D., Ph.D., Sojo University, Japan
• Neil Gibson, Ph.D., Pfizer, La Jolla
• Dai Fukumura M.D., Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard University
• Jindrich Kopecek, Ph.D., D.Sc., University of Utah
• Francis C. Szoka, Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco
• Napoleone Ferrara, Ph.D., Genentech, San Francisco
• Walter Wolf, Ph.D., University of Southern California 
  

You must preregister to attend this event. Registration for the event is free and includes parking, a full day's meals and admission to Lucky Strike at L.A. Live in downtown Los Angeles in the evening. There will also be a poster competition with generous cash prizes.  Space is limited, so please register soon.

To download the Moving Targets 2009 program, click here.

Saturday 11/07/2009: 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Radisson Hotel Los Angeles Midtown at USC 3540 South Figueroa Street Los Angeles CA 90007

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Christopher Cox is 28th chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and a USC alumnus. Myron T. Steele, seventh Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court, was named one of the most 100 influential people in corporate governance by Directorship magazine. They will be joined by more than 20 experts in various aspects of corporate governance, many of whom are sitting directors.

Organized by the USC Marshall School in 2006, the annual Corporate Governance Summit is designed to give directors and executives the information they need to meet the challenges of governance today. This program has been accredited by Institutional Shareholder Services and features experts from the USC Marshall School of Business and the Leventhal School of Accounting, and a wide range of speakers and panelists with hands-on experience.

In addition to Chairman Cox and Judge Steele, speakers will include:

• Warren Bennis, University Professor and distinguished professor of Business Administration and professor of Management and Organization at the USC Marshall School, and best-selling author
• Judith Blumenthal, professor of Clinical Management and Organization at the USC Marshall School, and director of Guess? Inc.
• Duke Bristow, professor at the USC Marshall School, and director of the Landec Corporation
• James Ellis, dean of the USC Marshall School, and director of Quiksilver Inc.
• Larry Harris, Fred V. Keenan Chair in Finance and professor of Finance and Business Economics at the USC Marshall School; director of the Clipper Fund Inc. and Interactive Brokers Group Inc.; and former chief economist of the SEC
• Bill Holder, Ernst & Young Professor of Accounting at the USC Leventhal School of Accounting
• Ken Merchant, Deloitte & Touche LLP Chair in Accountancy and professor of Accounting at the USC Leventhal School of Accounting, and director of Entropic Communications Inc. and Universal Guardian Holdings Inc.
• Kevin Murphy, Kenneth L. Trefftzs Chair in Finance at the USC Marshall School of Business, and special adviser to U.S. government on executive compensation
• Stephen Brown, director and senior counsel, Corporate Governance and Business Affairs, TIAA -CREF
• William F. Coffin, CEO, CCG Investor Relations
• Rich Corgel, executive director, Ernst & Young LLP
• Chris Crawford, senior vice president and regional practice leader, Willis Executive Risks
• Colleen Cunningham, global managing director, Resources Global Professionals
• Robert Deutschman, managing director, Cappello Capital Corp.
• Stanley Gold, president and CEO of Shamrock Holdings; director of The Walt Disney Company and Ansell Limited; chairman of Tadiran Communications Ltd.; and chairman of the USC Board of Trustees
• Joe Grundfest, W.A. Franke Professor of Law and Business, Stanford Law School
• Stephen Krasnow, managing partner and founder at APCO, The Appraisal Company
• Larry J. Livingston, music director of Thornton Orchestras and professor of Conducting, USC Thornton School of Music
• Simon M. Lorne, vice chairman and chief legal officer, Millennium Management LLC; director, Teledyne Technologies Inc.; and former general counsel to the SEC
• Ed Merino, CEO, Office of the Chairman
• M. Christian Mitchell, director of Special Value Opportunities Fund LLC, First Chicago Bancorp and Reis. Inc.
• David Robbins, partner, Bingham McCutchen
• Bob Rollo, partner, Heidrick & Struggles
• Walter Smiechewicz, senior managing director, Enterprise Risk Management, Countrywide Financial Corp.
• Les Sussman, managing director, Resources Audit Solutions
• Dean Yoost, managing partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
• Richard Welch, managing partner, Bingham McCutchen

Most summit sessions are open only to registered event attendees. For information on speakers, panelists and the program, please visit www.marshall.usc.edu/summit. If you have any questions about the Corporate Governance Summit, please feel free to contact dbristow@usc.edu.

Dates: 11/12/2009, 11/13/2009: All day

University Park Campus Davidson Conference Center

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USC's Center for Effective Organizations holds a seminar for leaders in HR, organization effectiveness, and talent management.

Every organization recognizes the importance of competing for talent and organizing that talent once acquired. Yet research shows that most organizations still lack a deep and logical understanding of how decisions about human capital, talent, and organization design and effectiveness connect to business and strategic success.

Learn how to build that deep, logical understanding through a proven approach to analyze your business strategy and discover specific, actionable implications for your talent and organization, with clear strategic results.

Where will talent and organization investments make the biggest difference in your strategic success?

This seminar provides a proven framework that helps business, HR and organization leaders answer this key question.

You will learn and apply the framework featured in Beyond HR (Harvard Business School Publishing) by John Boudreau and Pete Ramstad. Using that framework, Boudreau and Ramstad show you how to analyze your own strategy to uncover hidden, vital pivot-points where your HR and talent management will make their biggest strategic contribution.

The seminar is built on Boudreau and Ramstad's unique "decision science" for talent, which shares many of the same principles of decision sciences like finance and marketing. This framework has enabled organizations to achieve true line-of-sight between HR investments and their sustainable strategic success.

This framework and the talentship decision science are based on 10 years of research, application and work with leading organizations.

This program will provide:

• Unique focus on the integration between business strategy, HR strategy, and talent and organization implications
• Hands-on experience with the proven framework featured in the Harvard Business School Publishing book Beyond HR, with the goal of developing and analyzing strategies to discover unique strategic value in human and organizational capital
• A guided learning process, with a proprietary array of rigorous and practical tools that have been used by organizations such as Allstate, Corning, Deluxe, Microsoft, Northrop Grumman, PepsiCo and The Toro Company
• A workshop learning approach that is based on leading research in strategy, economics, organizational behavior and psychology 
  

This is a highly interactive workshop. Participants work directly with tools to analyze organizational strategy at all levels. You will use tools to identify the "lenses" that reveal where talent and organization decisions most affect strategic and business success, and the implications for human resource and organization practices. You will practice by applying these tools to available information from specific organizations, and you will learn about other organizations through discussion and break-out work.
 
Who Should Attend

This event is for any leaders wishing to help their organization find unique strategy opportunities in their talent management strategy and how it is organized and deployed. This includes leaders in human resources, HR strategy, organization effectiveness, and talent management. This workshop will be particularly valuable for HR generalists, business partners, strategists, functional leaders, leaders outside of the HR function, or those with non-HR backgrounds who have recently taken HR leadership positions.

Dates: 11/18/2009, 11/19/2009, 11/20/2009: All day

Exelon Corporation Headquarters Chase Towers 10 South Dearborn Street 48th Floor Chicago IL 60603

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Interesting speakers will highlight a wide range of issues and perspectives that affect Korea.

Wednesday 11/18/2009: 12:30 PM - 5:00 PM

University Park Campus Davidson Conference Center Vineyard Room

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The fifth annual symposium will include three student speakers and two poster sessions, with free breakfast and lunch.

Dr. Tad Blair of UCLA will be giving the keynote address.

Friday 01/22/2010: 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM

University Park Campus Davidson Conference Center

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