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Dr. Daniel Vasella, Chairman, Novartis AG

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Thursday, December 1, 2011
Worrell Professional Center

Can Business be Caring?  The tensions between business, ethics and humanity.

Dr. Daniel Vasella is chairman of Novartis AG, a global pharmaceutical company that operates in 140 countries.  Vasella served as CEO and an executive member of the company for 14 years following the merger that created Novartis in 1996.  He was appointed chairman in April 1999.  Before the Novartis merger, Vasella was CEO of Sandoz Pharma Ltd.  He graduated with an M.D. from the University of Bern and completed executive training at the Harvard Business School.  Novartis AG was the “Most Admired Pharmaceutical Company” of 2011 in the yearly Fortune magazine survey, and the Financial Times named Vasella the most influential European business man of the past quarter century.

Jeff Immelt, Chairman and CEO of GE

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Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Worrell Professional Center

Developing Global Leaders for a Global Economy

Jeffrey R. Immelt is the ninth chairman of GE and has been named one of the “World’s Best CEOs” three times by Barron’s. Since he began serving as CEO, GE has been named “America’s Most Admired Company” by Fortune magazine and one of “The World’s Most Respected Companies” in polls by Barron’s and The Financial Times. In February 2011, Immelt was appointed chairman of the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.

John Allison, Retired CEO of BB&T

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Thursday, July 21, 2011
Worrell Professional Center

Principled Leadership

Wake Forest University Schools of Business Distinguished Professor of Practice John Allison address the Master of Arts in Management Class of 2012. The retired chairman and CEO of BB&T discussed Principled Leadership with the incoming class of business students.

Michael A.J. Farrell, CEO of Annaly Capital Management Inc.

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Wake Forest University, Wait Chapel
Sunday, May 15, 2011

The Wake Forest University Schools of Business honored 350 master’s degree recipients at a hooding ceremony Sunday, May 15, 2011 in Wait Chapel.

The hooding address was delivered by Michael A.J. Farrell, Chairman, CEO and President of Annaly Capital Management Inc. (NLY) and Chairman of the Wake Forest University Schools of Business Board of Visitors. He shared a mountain climbing metaphor to explain what the graduates can expect ahead.

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