Professor Brian Uzzi of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management will lead a network & learn event for executives titled:

Make Your New Ideas Infectious: Leadership, Influence and Social Epidemics

The event — which is co-hosted by Human Capital Institute, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, and Kellogg — will begin at 730AM on July 25 at the NU’s Allen Center in Evanston and topics are expected to include:

• Proven strategies and tactics for transforming your leadership style.
• Tools you can immediately take back to the office to effectively promote your ideas.
• Steps for building better executive networks and managing complex systems of social ties within firms such as knowledge management systems, intellectual communities of practice, and email networks.
• The dynamics of innovation, diffusion, and change in market-based social networks such as blogs, patents, citations systems, and MySpace.com.

More information is available at:

Make Your New Ideas Infectious: Leadership, Influence and Social Epidemics.

The Marketing Roundtable at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (UC-GSB) will be featuring a presentation titled

“The Creativity Imperative – Why Creativity is Job One for America (and Your Company)” by Thomas Tresser.

The event will begin at 6PM on July 25 at the UC-GBS’s Gleacher Center in downtown Chicago, and topics will include:

• The vital role that creativity has come to play in society and the dimensions of the Creative Economy.
• How you and your company can recognize, celebrate and accelerate your creative assets.

More information is available at

The Creativity Imperative – Why Creativity is Job One for America (and Your Company)