SAP CEO William McDermott to Give Dolan Lecture, April 28
William McDermott, chief executive officer and executive board member of SAP, the worlds software market leader, will deliver the annual Charles F. Dolan Lecture at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 28 in the Dolan School of Business Dining Room. McDermotts talk, Winners Dream: A Journey from Corner Store to Corner Office, is free and open to the public.
Seating is limited and reservations are required. For complimentary tickets, contact Patricia Pivarnik at 203-254-4307 or ppivarnik@fairfield.edu .
McDermott leads SAPs 74,400 employees and more than two million-person ecosystem in executing SAPs vision and strategy to help the world run better and improve peoples lives. Under his leadership, in 2014 SAP unveiled a strategy to help businesses of all sizes run simple. The company has placed an unrivaled focus on delivering a beautiful user experience and has built the industrys most comprehensive portfolio of solutions in the SAP Cloud powered by SAP HANA. SAP also boasts the worlds largest business network, with more than $600 billion transacted annually.
Since 2010, this innovation-led strategy has resulted in expansive increases in customers, total revenue, market value and profitable growth. The SAP transformation is one of many authentic stories told in McDermotts national best-selling book Winners Dream: A Journey from Corner Store to Corner Office .
At 潑請弝け, McDermott will provide students, faculty, alumni and the public his perspective on leadership and career success. His book chronicles how relentless optimism, hard work and disciplined execution can embolden people and equip organizations to achieve audacious goals. Hell describe how he made the journey from working in a small deli on Long Island to the position of global CEO.
Bill McDermott is a great example for students of what it takes to succeed in todays major corporations, said Dr. Donald Gibson, dean of the Dolan School of Business. As his story shows, its not what you start out with he had very little. Its how you leverage hard work and energy to inspire others that really supercharges achievement in business.
The Charles F. Dolan Lecture series, featuring highly accomplished, visionary and internationally recognized business leaders, was established in 2001.
