Cornell University alumnus Samuel C. Fleming '62, chairman and chief executive officer of Decision Resources Inc., will deliver the 1999 School of Chemical Engineering Raymond G. Thorpe Lecture Tuesday, April 20. His talk, "Business Implications of Technology: An Entrepreneurial Engineer's Perspective," will be presented in 255 Olin Hall at 3:30 p.m. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Decision Resources is an international research, publishing and consulting firm that evaluates the commercial impact of developments in health care and other technology-intensive fields. It assists organizations in anticipating and responding to a changing environment. In 1990 Fleming led a buy-out of the firm from Arthur D. Little Inc., where he was a senior vice president, a member of the management group and president of Arthur D. Little Decision Resources, which he founded in the mid-1970s.

Fleming holds a B.S. in chemical engineering from Cornell and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. He is a trustee of Cornell and a member of the Engineering College Advisory Council. Fleming is a director of CareGroup Inc., a health network that includes Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center and the New England Baptist Hospital. He is a frequent author and speaker on managing technology-intensive organizations and the outlook for the health care industry.

The lecture is sponsored by the Raymond G. Thorpe Fund, whose purpose is to enhance undergraduate education by bringing industrial and academic visitors to the school. It was established in 1989 by alumni and friends to honor Thorpe, professor emeritus of chemical engineering, on his retirement after 39 years on the faculty. Thorpe twice received the College of Engineering's Excellence in Teaching Award.