“With the End in Mind:

Lessons to Grow, Manage and Sell Your Business”

 

 

Chicago Ross Alumni Present a Panel Discussion:

 

Featuring Keith Alessi and Jim Price from the Ross School of Business and the Zell Lurie Institute

of Entrepreneurial studies. 

 

Thursday September 10, 2009 from 5:30PM -9:00PM at the Willis Tower (a.k.a. Sears Tower)

Conference Center.

 

Since 2000, Keith Alessi has taught a turnaround management course to the students in the MBA program.  Currently, Keith also serves as the President and CEO of Westmoreland Coal Company of Colorado Springs, Co, America’s oldest independent coal company.  Prior to that, as CEO of Jackson Hewitt, Inc, he engineered a two year turnaround that resulted in Jackson Hewitt becoming the largest gaining stock in the United States in 1997. Keith holds an MBA from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. 

 

Since 2003, Jim Price has mentored MBA students through the elective course "Entrepreneurial Studies 615: New Venture Creation”.  He has also created and currently teaches the MBA elective, "Entrepreneurial Studies 515: Introduction to Entrepreneurship," as well as the executive education 3-day seminar, "Commercializing Corporate Innovation". Jim is a veteran technology entrepreneur and CEO with multiple successful liquidity events to his credit, including an IPO and multiple company sales

 

For more information or to help with this event, please contact Dave Stowe at dstowe@sierra-innovations.com. 

 

Registration is now open, sign up via this Ross Chicago link.  Sign up early to receive the early bird discount!

Event open to the public.