The 2009 National Knowledge Management Conference is accepting presentation proposals for double blind peer review. Hosted by Pepperdine University Graziadio School of Business and Management in collaboration with The Aerospace Corporation, Northrop Grumman, Pratt & Whitney and NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the conference will be held August 5-6, 2009, in Malibu, Calif.

GRAZIADIO IN THE NEWS

For the San Fernando Valley Business Journal, Dean Linda A. Livingstone and City of Palmdale Mayor James Ledford penned an opinion article about the Antelope Valley’s continued and future success. They identified the important role education has to play in building and retention top professional talent.

Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence
The article “Integrating Leadership Development and Succession Planning Best Practices” earned Graziadio School professor Kevin S. Groves, Ph.D., a Highly Commended Award for Outstanding Paper from the Emerald Publishing Group as part of the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2008.

The article, forthcoming in the Journal of Management Development, presents a best practices model for optimal development of the leadership pipeline and a series of practical recommendations for organizations.

GRAZIADIO IN THE NEWS

General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC will receive a $14 billion loans to stay afloat until March under a Bush administration rescue plan that accesses the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) from the Treasury Department.

“The idea of TARP is to help with troubled assets, so Treasury can do it this way, and it already has permission to do it,” said Professor Ed Fredericks in a statement prior to the President’s announcement. [Full Article]

Wolf H. Hengst, formerly president of worldwide operations for Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, and alumnus Luis Faura, president and chief operating officer of C&F Foods Inc., addressed commencement on December 6, 2008. Videos streaming their speeches are now available onlline.

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