2024 Event Listing

551st Meeting Featuring Michael Daly

Hogan Center, College of the Holy Cross 1 College St, Worcester, MA

Mr. Michael P. Daly, has been the CEO at Berkshire Hills Bancorp, Inc. and with its subsidiary Berkshire Bank since October 2002. Mr. Daly also serves as CEO and President of Greater Berkshire Foundation. Prior his appointment, he served as an Executive Vice President of Berkshire Hills Bancorp, Inc. and Berkshire Bank from 2000 to October […]

552nd Meeting Featuring Leslie Berlin

Beechwood Hotel 363 Plantation St., Worcester, MA

Leslie Berlin is Project Historian for the Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford University. She has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and served on the advisory committee to the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. The Washington Post said […]

553rd Meeting Featuring R. Nicholas Burns

Hogan Center, College of the Holy Cross 1 College St, Worcester, MA

R. Nicholas Burns is currently is Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and a member of the Board of Directors of the school's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. At the Harvard Kennedy School, he is Director of The Future of Diplomacy Project. He is Director of the […]

554th Meeting Featuring Martin T. Meehan

Hogan Center, College of the Holy Cross 1 College St, Worcester, MA

Marty Meehan is the first undergraduate alumnus to lead the five-campus University of Massachusetts system. On July 1, 2015, he became the university’s 27th president after serving in the U.S. House of Representatives and as chancellor of UMass Lowell. Meehan embraced a career in public service early in his life. He served as the deputy […]

555th Meeting Featuring Steven Malanga

Hogan Center, College of the Holy Cross 1 College St, Worcester, MA

Steven Malanga is the George M. Yeager Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and City Journal’s senior editor. He writes about the intersection of urban economies, business communities, and public policy and is the author of several books including The New New Left: How American Politics Works Today (2005) and The Immigration Solution (2007), coauthored with Heather Mac Donald and […]

556th Meeting Featuring John C. Roche

Hogan Center, College of the Holy Cross 1 College St, Worcester, MA

An accomplished leader and highly experienced senior executive with more than 30 years of experience in the property and casualty industry, Jack was appointed president and chief executive officer of The Hanover in October 2017. Since joining the company in 2006, Jack has served in several senior leadership positions. He most recently served as president, […]

557th Meeting Featuring Jeffrey H. Harris

Hogan Center, College of the Holy Cross 1 College St, Worcester, MA

Dr. Jeffrey H. Harris is the former Chief Economist and Director of the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis at the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission. He also holds the Gary Cohn Goldman Sachs Endowed Chair in Finance at the Kogod School of Business at American University. Dr. Harris has an extensive background in auction […]

559th Meeting Featuring Steven Hoffman

Hogan Center, College of the Holy Cross 1 College St, Worcester, MA

Chairman Hoffman has extensive background in business and finance having served as a senior executive in the management consulting and technology industries. In consulting, he was a Partner at Bain and Company where he led the firm’s 600 person Boston office and, as a Senior Vice President at CSC Index, he ran that firm’s Chicago office and was the world-wide leader of its strategy practice.

560th Meeting Featuring Peter S. Cohan

Hogan Center, College of the Holy Cross 1 College St, Worcester, MA

Peter S. Cohan is Lecturer of Strategy at Babson College. He teaches strategy and entrepreneurship to undergraduate and MBA students at Babson College. He is the founding principal of Peter S. Cohan& Associates, a management consulting and venture capital firm. He has completed over 150 growth-strategy consulting projects for global technology companies and invested in seven startups--three of which were sold for over $2 billion. Peter has written 14 books and writes columns on entrepreneurship for Forbes, Inc, and The Worcester Telegram & Gazette.

561st Meeting Featuring Bobby Jindal

AC Marriott Hotel 125 Front Street, Worcester, MA, United States

Bobby Jindal began his career in public service when, in 1996, he was appointed secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals. In 1999, at age 28, he was appointed as the youngest president in the history of the University of Louisiana System. In 2004, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming the second Indian American in Congress, and was re-elected in 2006. Jindal ran for governor in 2007 and won, making him, at 36 years old, the second youngest governor of Louisiana after Huey P. Long. Jindal was re-elected in 2011 in a landslide, winning more than 65% of the vote. He was the first Indian American governor in the country. Jindal ran for President of the U.S. in 2016.