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Buy ticketMORE INFOLunch and Learn Speaker Series with Tina Hay, Founder and CEO of Napkin Finance, interviewed by Alissa Finerman, 12/9 12:15pm PST
12/09/2020
$10.00Please join The Wharton Club of Southern California for our Lunch & Learn Speaker Series with Tina Hay, Founder and CEO of Napkin Finance, on Wednesday Dec 9th at 12:15 to 1pm PST. Tina will be interviewed by Alissa Finerman, WG’98 and VP of Programming.
Napkin Finance empowers readers by educating them about their money in a fun, engaging and visual way. They create unique content which takes complex financial topics and breaks them down into simple and easier to understand lessons. Their content reaches more than 80 million households worldwide through partnerships with major global financial institutions such as JP Morgan Chase and UBS. As CEO, Tina facilitates the overall direction of Napkin Finance, overseeing the business strategy and product development.
Members: $0, Non-members $10
Buy ticketMORE INFOCo-host event with WCNCR and WCNJ: Storing CO2 in the Built Environment Profitably with Brent Constantz, PhD, CEO, Blue Planet, Thursday, December 3, 2020, 5pm PST
12/03/2020
$5.00Storing CO2 in the Built Environment Profitably
with Brent Constantz, PhD, CEO, Blue Planet
Blue Planet, a Silicon Valley company, has developed viable carbon capture systems that remove carbon dioxide from the flue gas of large stationary industrial emitters that is economically profitable and can be deployed at a commercial scale rapidly. The process converts carbon dioxide captured from these dilute flue gas streams to carbonate for mineralization into aggregate as a synthetic limestone (CaCO3). The aggregate can replace the natural mined limestone as the principal constituent of concrete, permanently sequestering the captured carbon dioxide.The CEO of Blue Planet will discuss the technology behind manufacturing “green” concrete profitably while saving humanity from climate change.Members: $0, Non-members $5/person.
Buy ticketMORE INFOLunch & Learn Speaker Series with Prof. Saikat Chaudhuri discussing Innovation During Times of Crisis, 11/18/20 12pm PST
11/18/2020
$10.00Please join the Wharton So Cal Alumni Club for our Lunch & Learn Speaker Series with Prof. Saikat Chaudhuri to talk about Innovation During Times of Crisis. Prof. Chaudhuri is the Executive Director at The Mack Institute for Innovation Management and has extensive background in innovations among incumbent firms.
During this interactive event, Prof. Chaudhuri will present Mack Institute’s research findings to discuss how organizations can reprioritize and find opportunities to innovate in periods of turmoil. Beyond survival, firms need to invest actively in innovation-related activities to lead the rest. The goal of the event is to create an opportunity for alumni to learn how to best approach innovation strategies during times of crisis, as well as to learn how firms are employing tactics for resilience and success.
Date: Wednesday, November 18th 2020
Time: 12pm to 1pm PST
Location: via Zoom
Price: Wharton So Cal members – Free; non-members/guests – $10
Buy ticketMORE INFOMarketing Mondays: Demystifying SEO with Andrew Bernhardt, LA SEO, interviewed by Dan Smith, W ’86, 11/2 7pm PST
11/02/2020
Marketing Mondays is a tri-weekly group for Wharton alumni working in marketing. In each one-hour Zoom meeting, we will discuss the current issues we are facing in marketing and help each other access the resources and connections we need to be successful.
Marketing Mondays is led by Dan Smith W ’86 and UCLA MBA ’90.
We will email the Zoom link to attendees the morning of the event.
Wharton So Cal members: FREE
Non-members: FREE
Buy ticketMORE INFOWharton WEBINAR 4/1 11:30 AM PT :: Kaihan Krippendorff, Driving Innovation from Within
April 01, 2020
Join Wharton alumnus and author, Kaihan Krippendorff W93 Eng94 as he shares insights about how most innovation happens from within organizations, not just at start ups. Learn how you can harness the entrepreneurial spirit of your teams!
Wednesday, Apr. 1st | 11:30 am PT
Zoom webinar“Innovation” brings to our mind the maverick entrepreneur who quits their job, at unimaginable odds, to build a business on their own. But this entrepreneurial story is a myth. As a successful entrepreneur, author, consultant and CEO, Kaihan Krippendorff (W’94, Eng’95) argues that intrapreneurs – employees who incubate new businesses within corporations – have had a far greater impact on the world. Nearly all of the most transformative innovations over the past three decades, from e-mail and the Internet to DNA sequencing and MRI scans, were introduced by employees who did not quit their jobs but instead took the challenge of innovating from within.
Drawing on five years of in-depth research of hundreds of successful innovators and Intrapreneurial Intensity, as well as insights from thought leaders, C-suite leaders, business unit leaders, and front-line employees, Kaihan will share exclusive insights from his new book, Driving Innovation From Within: A Guide for Internal Entrepreneurs (Columbia University Press, 2019). Kaihan will unveil the most critical internal focus areas for driving innovation and moving your organization forward into the future. He will share specific tools, frameworks and techniques used by successful innovators to manage and unlock the value of employees’ ideas to increase corporate innovation levels and deliver bottom-line results. Audience members will have actionable next steps to transform their organization by testing and scaling fresh ideas that generate value and growth. They will leave feeling inspired and empowered, ready to take on the future.
In this inspiring session you will learn:- The IN-OVATE Framework
- The seven barriers of internal innovation and how to overcome them
- The six characteristics of Internal Innovators
- The seven steps to build an agile innovation team
- How to disrupt your competition without disrupting your business
- What it takes to lead an innovative organization
- How to shift your organizational mindset and culture to challenge the outdated status-quo
- How to build a wave of internal support for growth, innovation and creativity by reinforcing the idea that innovation is possible, attainable, and ultimately actionable
