November 2024 Speakers

Why did you choose to work for a global company? How do you increase prices? What does it take to get promoted in a global company? What are Board meetings at Fortune 500 companies like? To change the world, should I work for a global company?

From Global Giant to Nutrition Pioneer

Brian Groves

Chief Marketing Office, Health Science, Nestle

Nestle

November 26th, 2024 12:00 PM

Leading Global Growth Series

Through the Leading Global Growth series, Global executives share how their careers at Microsoft, Delta Air;lines, Coca-Cola, Disney, IBM, L’Oreal, Starbucks, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, The Estée Lauder Companies, Nike, McDonald’s, Campbell Soup, Beiersdorf and Roche, sharpened their leadership skills. I am keeping the series name in memory of my first academic director at NYU SPS who named the series.

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Fortune 500 executives join our sessions. That includes Chief Executive Officers (CEO), Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs), Chief Communications Officers (CCO), Chief Financial Officers (CFO), Global Impact Officers, and Global Supply Chain heads. Although this is a Finance class, I believe that it’s important to be exposed to the entire business. List of previous speakers:

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All sessions are free and open to the public. No fees are ever required.

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All questions are asked directly by participants, not by Benaroya. Over 100 questions are received for each session. Please email your questions at least 2 weeks before each session to george.benaroya@nyu.edu.

Finance for Marketing Decisions

This is part of the Finance for Marketing Decisions class taught by Benaroya.

In this class, students learn about Finance by choosing a company and acting as if they were the company’s financial executives. Each week, they decide whether to increase prices, reduce headcount, go public, and expand into new markets. Senior executives join as Guest Speakers to share how they make business and career decisions. Read more

About the series

These talks are offered as part of the Leading Global Growth series from NYU’s School of Professional Studies, and managed in coordination with NYU SPS Integrated Marketing & Communications, within the Division of Programs in Business.