2017 Winter One Seminar Host Book TABLE OF CONTENTS ARTICLE PAGE European Union .......................................................................................................... 3 Chelsea Football Club ................................................................................................. 4 Current Issues in the European Union Speaker Prof. Brown ....................................... 5 Hard Rock Cafe .......................................................................................................... 6 World Trade Organization. .......................................................................................... 7 Deutsche Bank ............................................................................................................ 8 UPS………………………………………………………………. ...................................... 9 Booking.com………………………………………………………………………………… 10 Heineken NV .................................................................................................... ……. 11 2 EUROPEAN UNION SPEAKER JOHN WHITE Born in London England, John has a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Chemistry and Management awarded by Loughborough University. He has a Master of Arts in Marketing and Management Education from the University of Lancaster. John has worked in the private sector, held faculty positions and also worked in the govern- ment sector. He worked for one year in Hamburg, Germany with Exxon, two years in the UK with Dow Chemical Company. After completing his Master’s degree he spent six years on fac- ulty at the Bristol Polytechnic after which he accepted a Senior Lectureship with the Hong Kong Polytechnic. Whilst living in Hong Kong he joined the Hong Kong Government and assumed responsibility for establishing and managing a program of activities designed to increase European industrial investment in Hong Kong. He was posted to Germany where he spent five years in Stuttgart building contacts with many corporations, banks and chambers of commerce throughout the European Community. As the program of activities increased John moved to Brussels in Bel- gium where he spent the next ten years working in close co-operation with the private and public sectors throughout the European Union. During his time in Brussels John had the op- portunity to gain firsthand experience of the workings of the institutions of the European Union. In 1997 John left the Hong Kong Government service and is now working as a Management Consultant as well as running his own photographic agency. 3 CHELSEA FOOTBALL CLUB On the evening of 10 March 1905 in an upstairs room at the Rising Sun pub, Chelsea FC was formed. Among the founding directors were millionaire owner Henry Augustus ‘Gus’ Mears, his brother Joseph, their brother-in-law Henry Boyer, publican Alfred Janes and his nephew Edwin, who ran the Rising Sun. The club, the brainchild of another founder, Frederick Parker, would be started from scratch to fill Gus Mears’s ambitious stadium, being built across the road at Stamford Bridge by the famous architect Archibald Leitch. Scotland international Jacky Robertson was engaged as the fledgling club’s player- manager. In collaboration with Parker, who also engineered Chelsea’s admission to Football League Division Two, Robertson constructed a squad including larger-than-life Willie Foulke: the club hired football’s first ball-boys to emphasise the 23-stone goalkeeper's presence. The huge new arena debuted with a 4-0 friendly win against Liverpool in September 1905, supported by London’s first 4-page match day football program, which cleverly fed the metropolis’s growing hun- ger for the professional game. Success came spectacularly fast: the table-top clash with Manchester United on Good Friday 1906 attracted a staggering attendance of 67,000. Promotion to the First Divi- sion was achieved in 1907 and over the ensuing campaign the newly nicknamed ‘Pensioners’ attracted the biggest crowds ever known in Britain. The most popular entertainer of the day, George Robey, even signed up as a player. The training ground is at Cobham in Surrey but sessions are not open to the general public. Special open days are organised at Stamford Bridge when fans can see the team train. Chelsea FC has a Match day Child Mascot Policy which allows children between the age of 6 and 12 years old act as mascots for the Chelsea team before each home and away game. A waiting list oper- ates for children to become mascots. New names are added in the order in which applications are re- ceived. We are currently dealing with applicants added to the database in late 2008/early 2009. Chelsea FC is committed to tackling discrimination at Stamford Bridge and in our communities and an active role in all the major anti-discrimination campaigns such as Kick It Out, Show Racism the Red Card and all UEFA backed Europe-wide campaigns including FARE. Formed in 2010, the Chelsea Foundation brings together the Football in the Community and the Edu- cation department along with the club’s other charitable and community activities, including environ- ment and anti-discrimination projects. As one of the world’s leading football social responsibility pro- gram the Chelsea Foundation uses the power of sport to motivate, educate and inspire. We believe that the power of football can be harnessed to support communities and individuals both at home and abroad. On top of our outstanding football development program, the Chelsea Foundation works on a broad range of initiatives focusing on employment, education, social deprivation, crime reduction, youth offending and much more. Source: https://www.chelseafc.com/ 4 Living & Working the in European Union By Professor Graham Brown of IGS A short summary about the IGS Group, from where Professor Graham Brown is a faulty mem- ber and who will be speaking on the twenty-five member states of the European Union con- cerning the agreement to form an economic and monetary union. The IGS Group, founded in 1975 and which is located on the same campus as the American Business School Paris, is centered around the concept of an International Professional Uni- versity providing practical business education. IGS regularly works with over 1000 companies, with many French educational institutions and over 50 foreign universities, in Europe, North and South America, Asia and the Pacific. More than 10,000 people attend classes at IGS each year in the different centers located in Paris, Lyon, Toulouse and Nantes. IGS schools train people in human resource management, business administration, marketing, sales, management of information technology and healthcare marketing and administration. With 48% French students and 52% non-French students representing 65 different nationali- ties, the American Business School Paris offers real diversity in the classroom. Typical feed- back from study abroad students when they finish at the school is that they actually get to real- ly meet people of different cultures and nationalities. Paradoxically, usually these students come from institutions that are just as or more diverse in numbers. At the American Business School Paris, small class sizes, diversity, readiness to challenge assumptions creates a real environment for cross cultural exchange and understanding. What can best be called an igno- rance of what is politically correct conjugated with values such as tolerance for all forms of di- versity; humanism and entrepreneurship foster a strong, challenging, broadening and self- developing learning environment. The professors are American or have trained in America for the most part but all have their own unique international experience and career paths that they bring into the classroom thus adding further experienced diversity. The faculty is international and comprises professors who are mostly American with interna- tional experience or other nationals who have trained in America. Professor Graham Brown has a Diploma in Accountancy, City of London Polytechnic, UK and an MBA from the City University, London, UK. 5 HARD ROCK CAFÉ The original Hard Rock Cafe was created in London in 1971 by the expatriate Americans who thought Europe should taste down-home American cooking and culture. At the time, finding a burger in Europe was like looking for crepe suzette at a New York deli. It soon became a magnet to all kinds: bakers, bankers, actors, musicians, old and young. An American hang-out on European soil--driven by good old Rock 'n roll. Back in the seventies, Eric Clapton - the original guitar god, founder of Cream and Derek & the Dominoes, creator of the immortal "Layla" - liked to eat at this quirky American diner in London called the Hard Rock Cafe. The place was this funky old building that used to be a Rolls Royce dealership, and it was run by a couple of young Americans who liked to keep it loose. Founded by Isaac Tigrett and Peter Morton, two enterprising and music-loving Americans, Hard Rock Cafe was an instant classic. You could be yourself at the Hard Rock. It was good food and a good time. So Clapton got to be friends with the proprietors and asked them to save him a regular table, put up a brass plaque or something. And the young proprietors said, “Why don't we put up your guitar?” They all had a chuckle, and he handed over a guitar, and they slapped it on the wall. No one thought much more about it. Until a week later, when another guitar arrived (a Gibson Les Paul). With it was a note from Pete Townshend of The Who which read: "Mine's as good as his. Love, Pete." The young proprietors put