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Strategies for Global Competitiveness To Be Examined at Rotman MBA Business Conference

TORONTO, January 8, 2001 --

What? Rotman MBA Business Conference: "The Consolidation Paradigm - A Path
to Global Competitiveness"

When? Friday, January 26, 2000 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Where? Fleck Atrium, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, 105 St. George Street
(south of Bloor Street), Toronto

Tickets? Tickets are $175.00 each. To purchase tickets, contact Michelle Stinson via e-mail.

Media? Contact Ken McGuffin at 416-946-3818 to confirm your complimentary attendance.

For complete details, visit the Business Conference web site.

With the unprecedented rate of change in the business world today, are mergers and developing new alliances an appropriate strategy for firms to remain globally competitive? Leaders from some of the world�s top corporations will examine this question at the annual Rotman MBA Business Conference, �The Consolidation Paradigm A Path to Global Competitiveness� on January 26 at the Rotman School.

Keynote speakers at the conference include:

David Kassie, Chief Executive Officer, CIBC World Markets;
Michael Sabia, BCom�76, President, BCE and Vice-Chairman Corporate, Bell Canada; and,
Roger Martin, Dean, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management.

Confirmed speakers, as of this date, in breakout sessions include: Larry Baldachin, President and CEO, Liberty Technology Services; Teri Brown, National Director, Growth & Development, Watson Wyatt; Jim Coutts, President, Coutts & Company Inc.; Bobby John, Executive Vice President and Founder, Personus; Marianne Harris, Managing Director, Merrill Lynch; Dennis Kavelman, Chief Financial Officer, Research in Motion; Andrew Muroff, President, SoftQuad; and Ken Smith, Senior Vice President, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young.

The Rotman MBA Business Conference is an annual student-organized event and provides a forum for executives, students and alumni to discuss crucial issues facing today�s business community.

Recently ranked by Business Week in the top tier of business schools in the world, the University of Toronto�s Rotman School offers leading-edge research and undergraduate and graduate degree programs, including the prestigious Rotman MBA, the newly redesigned Part-Time MBA, the Executive MBA, a first-rate Doctoral Program, the distinctive Master of Management & Professional Accounting program, combined programs with the University of Toronto faculties of Law, Engineering and Nursing, and an innovative series of Executive Programs tailored to the current needs of businesses and individual managers.

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For further information, please contact:

Ken McGuffin
Media Relations Officer
Rotman School of Management
Voice: (416) 946-3818
E-mail: mcguffin@rotman.utoronto.ca

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