Business dialogs start

Business dialogs start

JAKARTA (JP): Dow Jones Asia Dialogues of Hong Kong began its
Boardroom Briefings and Senior Executive Interchange Series here
yesterday, bringing in Harvard Business School teacher Michael E.
Porter to participate in a live discussion on competitive
strategy.

Some 30 senior business executives, including Ciputra, the
chairman of the Ciputra Group, and Fadel Mohammad of PT Bukaka,
took part in the dialog.

Dow Jones, in cooperation with the Prasetio Executive
Development Center, will proceed the series of dialogs here once
a month, presenting other business experts such as John Kao and
Gary Hamel of Harvard University, Ricardo Semler of the Brazilian
Marine Machinery Manufacturer, James Champy, a leading U.S.
strategist on management and information technology, Nicholas
Negroponte of the Berkeley University of California, Lester
Thurow of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Noel
Tichy of the University of Michigan Business School.

Similar dialogs will also be held in Manila, Bangkok and
Singapore, while a presentation on the Vanguard Series will be
held in Bali in early September.

Dow Jones Asia Dialogues, a unit of Dow Jones & Company Inc.,
is a publisher of business news, information services and
community newspapers which include The Asian Wall Street Journal,
Far Eastern Economic Review, Asia Business News, Dow Jones
Telerate and Dow Jones News Retrieval.

The Prasetio center's executive director, Rodolfo C. Balmater,
said that the link-up with Dow Jones Asia Dialogues is aimed to
strengthen and compliment the center's mission to promote
leadership skills and strategic thinking, to enhance Asian
leadership qualities and managerial excellence. (kod)