Dessert and Dialogue
April 19, 2011
Exposing Your Leaders to Global Management Practices:
A best practice model for China
Center for Innovation and Growth
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.
5:00 registration, appetizer and dessert buffet
5:30 - 6:15 Presentation
6:15 - 6:30 Break
6:30 - 7:00 Questions and Answers
Presenters: Harvey Hopson and Mac Watson
Harvey Hopson, Director International MBA, United States Marine Corps where he enjoyed a 26-year career as a judge advocate. During his career, Harvey worked in a variety of jobs, including serving as a prosecutor, defense counsel, legal advisor, Staff Judge Advocate, lead instructor and head of the legal department at the United States Naval Academy, head of the Research Division at Headquarters Marine Corps with the Pentagon, General Court Martial Circuit Judge for the Keystone Judicial Circuit responsible for the western pacific region covering Japan, Korea, Thailand, the Philippines, Guam, Okinawa and Hawaii, and Chief Defense Counsel of the U.S. Marine Corps.
Harvey also worked for the Defense Institute of International Legal Studies (DILLS) under the auspices of the U.S. State Department where served as the senior member of a 5 person team that traveled to Third World Countries with emerging democracies and conducted executive seminars to assist in helping with the governmental transition. Professionally Harvey has traveled to 54 countries. Harvey earned his undergraduate at Baldwin-Wallace College and his Juris Doctorate degree from John Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University.
Mac Watson has taught Intercultural Communication in Baldwin-Wallace College’s International MBA program for 15 years and has served as Administrative Director of the program from June 1999 until August 2010. He has directed B-W’s Comparative Management Seminars abroad in Japan, Thailand, Korea, the Philippines and Brazil.
With more than seven years experience living and working abroad, Mac has supervised the training and education of more than 2,500 professionals and business executives from 55 countries and has served as a military translator for the US Army in Saigon, as an exchange professor in Tokyo, and as guest lecturer at universities in Vietnam, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, Brazil, Chile and Ireland.
Mac is a member of the Advisory Board of the Japan-America Academic Center (Tokyo, Japan and Irvine, California) and an immediate past member of the National Commission on Accreditation (Alexandria, VA) -- drafting language training standards for U.S. graduate business schools nationwide. Mac currently continues to teach Intercultural Communication at Baldwin Wallace while also teaching several business courses at FAE University in Brazil. Mac’s undergraduate degree is from Centre College of Kentucky and his MA is from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Cost: $20
$10 MBA Association and Alumni
$120 Corporate Table
Location: Center for Innovation and Growth
340 Front Street
Berea, Ohio
register at the MBA Association Web site: www.b-wcommunity.net/mba/dnd or call: 440-826-2104
What others have said about the Dessert & Dialogue series…
“I really enjoyed the flow of the Dessert & Dialogue format. The combination of curriculum and panel interaction makes for a great event.” Adam Beach, B-W MBA Candidate
“I was amazed at the program that was put together. It was a great way for me to connect with classmates and faculty from my B-W program as well as interact with professionals from the industry.” Claudio Zanin, B-W MBA, ‘07