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Last week, the Sourcing Industry Group (SIG) hosted one of its Procurement Technology Summit virtual conferences that brings thousands of procurement practitioners together to share the latest ideas and understand the latest developments in the industry.
The three-day event featured keynote speakers addressing diversity and inclusion, more than 30 discussions, and many sessions with procurement practitioners and technology vendors covering topics like sustainability, contracting and technology disruption.
The summit marked the 60th event for SIG since its inception in 1991. Over 1,300 attendees joined from more than 60 countries, showcasing the global nature of procurement in today’s day and age. The summit focused on procurement technology transformation through the lens of a post-pandemic world.
All In: Teaching women to use poker skills in the boardroom Today 04:00 am JST Today | 06:43 am JST NEW YORK
When Marilyn Caton started her MBA studies, she never imagined learning to bluff her way to big pots at the poker table.
Yet that is exactly what the second-year student at Northwestern University s Kellogg School of Management has been studying every week.
In a free pilot program offered with the educational site Poker Powher, Caton and 98 other female students have been learning from university faculty about negotiation, decision-making and emotional intelligence.
They test those strategies with a few hands of Texas Hold Em, a popular poker variant. The aim is not to clean up at the annual World Series of Poker, but to apply these skills in corporate environments.
M & J Wilkow announces new hires and promotion May 5, 2021
Chicago real estate firm M & J Wilkow continues its strategic growth with the announcement of two new hires to its growing Retail and Office Real Estate Portfolio team as well as the promotion of Darcy Rutzen to the position of Senior Vice President of Retail and Marketing.
Christina Carabez has joined M & J Wilkow, Ltd. as Operations Manager for the Office Property Management Group, where she will help drive the expansion of the Company’s property management services, tenant relations programs and sustainability initiatives. Chris brings over nineteen years of Property Management experience to her new role, including six years as an Assistant Property Manager for J&J ARNACO, and three years as Property Manager for Tawani Property Management.
Talk about diversity! Seven distinct, vivid cultures – each with its own history, values, characteristics, opportunities, and challenges.
Sure, there are many commonalities among the M7 schools: all are highly competitive, all feature deep academic resources, all are supported by committed and involved alumni, all attract top-tier recruiters (even in down business cycles). Yet the most important commonality is their individual uniqueness! Their strong and determined “individualism” literally
reflects their leadership in the MBA realm. They rise to their prominent position because they
are the leaders in their domain, graduate business education. So, they reasonably expect you – their students and prospective students – to have correspondingly high ambitions, whether your domain be finance, healthcare, energy, social entrepreneurship, or something else.
David Schonthal
Age: 37| Co-founder | Matter | @davidschonthal I feel like a lot of the energy behind what I do is often equally divided between competitive and collaborative, he says. But all in a positive way.
The idea for stitching together Chicago s health-tech community was hatched on a plane to San Diego. David Schonthal had moved here so he and his wife could be closer to family. Working in health care venture capital, he was frustrated to find the Midwest scene so disjointed that he had to continually return to California for business. The four-hour commute allowed plenty of time for pondering such questions as Why can t we do cool stuff in Chicago?