War Games

Name: War Games
Start: 2018-09-13T17:00:00-05:00
End: 2018-09-13T18:30:00-05:00
Location: McNair Hall, Room 312

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Workshop Strategy

Thu, Sep 13, 2018

5 PM – 6:30 PM CDT (GMT-5)

McNair Hall, Room 312

6100 Main Street MS 531 , Houston, TX 77005, United States

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Former McKinsey consultant John Horn will be hosting a war game strategy workshop for Rice Business students in a classroom setting. He has delivered extended versions of this workshop for over 100 clients and developed a set of simulation exercises to help companies understand the challenges of competitive strategy. This event will be first-come, first-served with maximum capacity of 65 so please RSVP if planning to attend.

Dress Casual (jeans ok)

Speakers

John Horn

Senior Lecturer

Olin Business School

John Horn is a Senior Lecturer in the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis.

He teaches MBA students microeconomics, macroeconomics and industry analysis.

John was a Senior Expert in the Strategy Practice of McKinsey & Company, based out of the Washington, DC, office.

He spent 9 years working with clients on competitive strategy, war gaming workshops and corporate and business unit strategy across a variety of industries and geographies.

He helped over 100 clients with war game workshops and developed a set of simulation exercises to help companies understand the challenges of reallocating resources.

John has published nine papers in the McKinsey Quarterly and three in the Harvard Business Review, mostly on the application of behavioral economics and competitive insight to business strategy.

John has a PhD in economics from Harvard University, where he also received a Masters degree in economics.

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