You and your partner are cordially invited to attend the first among many events planned this year to celebrate the centennial of Harvard Business School. This is also our second joint event with MIT Club. This timely session examines one of the most critical, pressing and complex management and leadership issues facing policy and decision makers worldwide, both in the public and private sectors. Originally invented by Drs. R. Kaplan (Harvard Business School) and D. Norton, the Balanced Scorecard addresses the most challenging performance-transparency gaps, in the private and public sectors. It is the best antidote to overcome the narrow focus and the time lag of finance-based performance measures. Professor Pierre Bergeron, our guest speaker, is known for his outstanding ability to distil and communicate the essence of complex decisions and management approaches in an informative and interesting way. He is an award-winning author who has made an immensely valuable contribution to the advancement of management best practices, accountability and good governance. He was Director of Corporate Finance at Domtar, and led market analysis and capital project evaluation at Exxon’s Imperial Oil. He also was a senior executive in several departments of the Federal Government prior to pursuing a distinguished career as a professor of management and Associate Dean at the University of Ottawa. Prof. Bergeron is the author of eight management books including Modern Management in Canada, Finance for Non-Financial Managers, Survivor's Guide to Finance, and Capital Expenditure Planning for Growth and Profit. He has written extensively on finance for professional journals including CA magazine, CMA Magazine, CGA Magazine, Banker and ICB Review, the Financial Post, and Optimum. He has received awards related to his pioneering work including the Walter J. MacDonald award for his series of articles on capital budgeting decisions. He has assisted Industry Canada in designing a Web-based program to help entrepreneurs raise risk funds from venture capital markets. The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) is a management governance process designed to translate an organization’s strategic intentions into measurable targets, mobilize change, make strategy everyone’s responsibility through measurable critical success factors and improve both behaviour and performance. The focus of the Scorecard is on the few internal and external drivers of sustainable excellence and breakthrough performance. The Scorecard approach can help an organization and all its business units achieve superior results, create excellent value for its stakeholders and demonstrate accountability and good governance. Its basic intent aims at turning mission and vision into clear goals and operational strategies, tracking progress early through leading indicators, encouraging internal communication and developing consensus and teamwork. Its benefit is a greater balance between: lagging indicators (financial reports) and leading indicators, quantitative and qualitative measures, and internal and external drivers of performance.Register now to confirm your attendance. We expect this important event to be sold out early!  If you also wish to meet for an optional buffet-style dinner prior to the presentation, you are most welcome to join us at The Green Door Restaurant, 198 Main Street at 4:30 pm. The restaurant is just cross the street from St-Paul University. Warmest thoughts and best wishes for New Year,Alain Paul MartinPresident, Harvard Business School ClubNational Capital Chapter 

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