The Milligan Leaders in Business Lecture Series was created in 1992 through a generous endowment established by Robert L. "Bill" Milligan '22 and his wife Mary. Bill Milligan was a long-time OWU Trustee and had a distinguished career at the Pure Oil Company, where he became President in 1954 and Chairman from 1965 until his retirement in 1971.
| 10/1/2026 | Wandia Chiuri '05, Founder and CEO of Reactionpower | "Your Human Advantage in the Age of AI" |
| 10/27/2025 | Scott Milligan '90, Group Vice President for Thrive Pet Healthcare | "The Entrepreneurial Journey: Flexibility, Tenacity and Luck" |
| 10/15/2024 | Michael Tiedemann '93, Chief Executive Officer of AlTi Tiedemann Global | "The Building of a Global Wealth Management Firm" |
| 12/6/2023 | Blair Kisker, Vice President of Finance & Accounting at FC Cincinnati | "Following Passion to Career: From Accounting to the World of Soccer" |
| 10/4/2022 | Dawn Dickson, Founder & CEO of PopCom | "Entrepreneurship: Are YOU built to Scale?" |
| 3/24/2022 | Pete Watson, Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors for Greif, Inc. | "Creating a Culture of Servant Leadership" |
| 10/1/2019 | Dave Kaufman '81, CEO of Encova Insurance | "Integrated Leadership" |
| 10/4/2018 | Shadman Zafar '94, Head of Digital at Citi | "The Rules of Engagement - How to Succeed in Corporate America" |
| 10/19/2017 | Daymond John, Founder and CEO of FUBU, Branding Expert and Investor on ABC's hit show, Shark Tank | "5 Shark Points" |
| 11/3/2016 | Jim Dicke II, honorary degree, Chairman & CEO of Crown Equipment Corporation | "Leadership in Business and in the Wider World" |
| 10/23/2014 | Tracie Winbigler '87, Chief Operations Officer for the National Geographic Society | "The Media Industry and the Digital Transition" |
| 10/3/2013 | Louis A. Simpson '58, Chairman of SQ Advisors, LLC | "Corporate America - To Rent Or To Own?" |
| 9/28/2012 | Clark Winter '73, Founder of Clark Winter Enterprises | "The Global Economy Going Forward: Making Sense of Apparent Nonsense" |
| 9/22/2011 | Andres Duarte '62, Managing Director of Duarte Vivas y Asociados, C.A. | "Survival Management in a Distorted Economy: The Venezuelan Model" |
| 11/17/2009 | John F. Milligan '83, President & CEO of Gilead Sciences, Inc. | "The Story of Gilead Sciences – Building a Business that Transformed a Disease" |
| 10/23/2008 | George S. Carpenter '78, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. | "Changing the Marketing Game" |
| 10/25/2007 | David M. Cromwell '66, Retired President & CEO of JPMorgan Capital Corporation, and Adjunct Professor at the Yale School of Management | "Are You an Entrepreneur?" |
| 10/03/2006 | Toshi Amino, Retired Executive Vice President of Honda of America Manufacturing | "China's Automobile Industry" |
| 9/29/2005 | Louis A. Simpson '58, President and Chief Executive Officer of Capital Operations, GEICO Corporation | "Creating Shareholder Value" |
| 10/13/2004 | Dragan Filipovic, Senior Principal Scientist at Kraft Foods and Global Research Technology Strategy | "Creativity & Productivity in a Manufacturing Environment" |
| 11/06/2003 | Frederick A. Manske, Jr. '61, Retired CEO of Purolator Courier and formerly Senior Vice President, Federal Express | "The Leadership Challenge – Opportunity Knocks – Are You Ready?" |
| 9/12/2002 | Charles M. Berger, Woltemade Center Executive-In-Residence, Chairman and Retired CEO of Scotts Company | "Making Good Companies Great" |
| 4/04/2000 | Al '64, Nationally Recognized Expert in Supply Chain Management | "The Missing Link – Bringing Supply Chain Management to the Forefront of Business" |
| 9/29/1999 | David Wetherell, President and CEO of CMGI, Inc. | "The Internet in a Global Society" |
| 10/08/1998 | James Becher '61, President and CEO of The Geneva Group | "Investment Strategies for the 21st Century: The Private Equity Fund" |
| 4/20/1995 | Donald Jacobs, Dean at J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University | "Management Education for the 21st Century" |
| 10/21/1994 | Thomas G. Murdough, Jr., President of STEP 2 Corporation | "Ethics and Entrepreneurship" |
| 4/20/1994 | Thomas M. Hout, Vice President of Boston Consulting | "Do We Have Anything to Learn from the Japanese?" |
| 11/04/1993 | Elmer W. Johnson, Partner at Kirkland & Ellis Law Firm; former Executive Vice President of General Motors | "The Large Corporation: An Endangered Species?" |
| 3/24/1993 | Louis A. Simpson '58, Vice Chairman, GEICO Corporation | "Investing in a Global Market" |