Note: The prepared text of Ferrari’s remarks is available to reporters on an embargoed basis.
Newswise — Bernard T. Ferrari will deliver his first major speech as the dean of the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School on Wednesday, Sept. 19, at the school’s Harbor East campus in Baltimore.
Titled “What’s In It for ‘We’? A Humanistic Approach to Business and Business Education,” the dean’s presentation will outline his goals for Carey as it builds on the successes of its first five years of operation. He will discuss Carey’s plan to intensify the focus of its research and instruction on four troubled areas of the economy – health care; real estate and public infrastructure; the financial services industry; and the national security industry. He also will reaffirm the school’s commitment to business that “promotes both the bottom line and the well-being of society.”
The speech is scheduled to begin promptly at 5:15 p.m. and will take place in the fourth-floor conference room of the school’s campus at 100 International Drive. It can be viewed on a live webcast at http://www.carey.jhu.edu/webcast.
Ferrari became the second dean of the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School in July. He previously was a director at the global management consulting firm McKinsey & Co., where he spent nearly two decades leading its healthcare practice and North American corporate strategy practice. After retiring from McKinsey in 2008, he founded and became chairman of the Ferrari Consultancy, serving clients in the financial services, transportation, energy, medical products, aviation, and heavy-equipment manufacturing sectors.
Ferrari is a cum laude graduate of the University of Rochester, where he also earned his M.D. He began his professional career as a surgeon and later was chief operating officer and assistant medical director of the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans. Subsequently, he earned a J.D. magna cum laude from the Loyola University School of Law and an executive M.B.A. from the Tulane University School of Business.
His papers have been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, McKinsey Quarterly, and The New England Journal of Medicine. His book, Power Listening: Mastering the Most Critical Business Skill of All, was published in March 2012 by Portfolio/Penguin.
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