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Record date: Monday 28th October 2013 Location: School of Business and Economics Title: Business Goals For A Sustainable World Economy - Beyond Growth, Greed and Quarterly Results Speaker: Prof. Emeritus Geert Hofstede Around 1998, junior managers and professionals in 17 countries rated the importance of a number of personal goals for their country's successful business leaders. Across countries, dominant goals were growth, continuity, short-term profits and personal wealth. Goal profiles differed among countries however. In the USA profile growth, personal wealth, and short-term results were the most important. The goal profiles of the emerging economies of India, Brazil, China and also Germany showed a longer term view, more responsibility towards society, and less fascination with growth and personal wealth. Around the year 2000, many people assumed that the success of business leaders around the world would depend on how closely they followed the American example. In this lecture Hofstede will show that the 2008 economic crisis has upset this naïve belief. Precisely in the country that stood as the world's model for the goals of successful business, the world economic system collapsed. In the new economic order, other powers will contribute their goals for international business. For academia, the main challenge will be to develop more relevant curricula for preparing future business leaders taking into account these goals. Information on lecturer Prof. Geert Hofstede is professor emeritus of organizational anthropology and international management, UM. From his retirement in 1993 to 2011 he served as an Extra-Mural Fellow of the CentER for Economic Research at Tilburg University. See also: www.geerthofstede.eu For more information please visit: School of Business and Economics - http://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/sbe Talkin'Business magazine - http://www.talkinbusiness.net Study association SCOPE Maastricht - http://www.scope-maastricht.com