November 19, Chalmers department of Technology Management and Economics host a top-level seminar
that addresses the issue of how we can manage more sustainable futures. Several prominent Chalmers
alumni will offer their perspectives.
19 November, 2021, at 13.00-16.00
More info and registration: chalmers.se - 50 years of Management at Chalmers
Since Industrial Management began at Chalmers around 50 years ago, Sweden has had a large global impact – Volvo safety solutions and AstraZeneca drugs are just two examples that have saved millions of lives. Management today includes governance aspects as well as entrepreneurship and realising more sustainable innovations. “This seminar takes a long-term perspective in celebrating past achievements, while addressing emerging future developments. It brings together Chalmers alumni, students and faculties to increase our understanding of how we can manage a sustainable future in a better way,” explains Professor Mats Lundqvist, F91, who coordinates the seminar as vice head of the department of Technology Management and Economics. Mats has also been involved in setting up Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship in 1997 and has worked as its director. Mats points out that Chalmers has not focused on management much in the past, but says that now is the time. The seminar will end with what management can do for
a sustainable future.
A leading figure at Chalmers on these issues was Professor Holger Bohlin, who was born a hundred years ago in 1921. He came from the Stockholm School of Economics and in 1969 was appointed Professor of the Department of Industrial Management at Chalmers. In September 1983, Holger gave the welcome speech to the first 30 students on the new Industrial Engineering and Management program. “We will create a symbiosis between technical science and economic know-how, so that you as human beings, will be able to take wise decisions on behalf of the company you are working for”. In other words, a management program.
Among the speakers at the seminar there are five renowned managers with extensive experience around managing more sustainable futures. Together with other invited alumni and management scholars, they will give their perspectives on the following topics:
- Will big sustainability initiatives be on the agenda more after Covid 19? And if so, how?
- How will digitalisation transform the way in which we manage?
- How should management care about entrepreneurial ecosystems and even social intrapreneurs?