In the pre-Internet days, companies rarely partnered with rivals. But in the post-Internet days, striking alliances with competitors has become a trend. Increasingly, competitors have become business partners rather than foes.
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Larraine Segil ’79, a prominent business leader and Southwestern alumna, was elected to Southwestern’s Board of Trustees at the Board’s May 2012 meeting. Ms. Segil is a highly respected senior executive with entrepreneurial general management experience and specialized expertise in conflict resolution and the creation, implementation and management of complex business alliances in multiple industries – healthcare, technology, consumer products, manufacturing, aerospace and financial services.
This week Larraine Segil gave the first Larraine Segil Award for Alliance Competency at the Graziadio School of Business at Pepperdine University in Los Angeles to Linda LoRe, former CEO of Giorgio’s of Beverly Hills, and Fredericks of Hollywood who is a candidate for the Presidential Key Executive MBA program, the same program that Larraine Segil graduated from in 1984. Larraine set up this scholarship to reward women PKE MBA candidates on their leadership in the management of business alliances and to encourage more women to build competency in this field, in which Ms Segil created a global reputation over the past three decades. Here she announces the award, accompanied by Dean Linda Livingstone, Dean of the Graziadio School.
Larraine Segil gave the KEYNOTE ADDRESS today September 14th 2011 to THE JOINT GARTNER VENDOR OUTSOURCING & IT SUMMIT and GARTNER INVESTMENT SUMMIT in Orlando FLA– to great acclaim. She has spoken for The Gartner Group before – and the audience is always highly engaged and intelligent. Her Topic was:
Creating Value in Partnering
Strategic Alliances Advisory Group recommends moves for strengthening TDR partnerships
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Frontier Communications Corporation (NYSE: FTR) announced that Larraine D. Segil, a member of its Board of Directors, has been appointed by TDR, the Special Programme for Research and Training, to be a member of the Strategic Alliances Advisory Group. The programme is co-sponsored by UNICEF, UNDP, the World Bank and the World Health Organization and is set up to help foster an effective global research effort on infectious diseases of poverty.
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