Rice to headline OSU's Tulsa Business Forums speaker series

Monday, September 28, 2009

(September 28, 2009   Stillwater, OK) – Former U.S. Secretary of State and national security advisor Condoleezza Rice is slated to headline the roster of exciting speakers for the 2009-2010 Tulsa Business Forums series. The Tulsa Business Forums feature international business and political leaders, authors and policymakers who bring critical and timely information to the Oklahoma business community. In addition to Rice, other speakers for the 2009-2010 series include William D. Cohan and J. Alexander M Douglas, Jr.

The Tulsa Business Forums are sponsored by the Spears School of Business and its corporate partners and coordinated by the Center for Executive and Professional Development at Oklahoma State University.

The 2009-2010 series will debut Oct. 15, 2009, at the Tulsa Crowne Plaza Hotel with a luncheon and presentation from noon to 1:30 p.m. by William D. Cohan titled “House of Cards: How and Why the Financial Market Melted Down.”

Cohan has insider knowledge and insights into the current financial crisis from his time as a Wall Street senior banker.  He has authored two well-known books: The Last Tycoons, winner of the 2007 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award, and published in March of this year, House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street.

Rice will serve as the second speaker in the series; her remarks are scheduled for Feb. 4, 2010, from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at the Tulsa Mabee Center. 

The series will wrap up on March 24, 2010, with Douglas, President of Coca-Cola North America, at the Tulsa Renaissance Hotel. A luncheon and Douglas’ presentation, “Global Sustainable Leadership—Transforming How We Do Business,” will run from noon until 1:30 p.m.

For more information or to register, contact the OSU Center for Executive and Professional Development in the Spears School of Business by phone at 866-678-3933 or 405-744-5208.  You may also e-mail cepd@okstate.edu or register online at cepd.okstate.edu.