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Friends,
As you may already know, the first Academy/Industry conference on "Leadership, Innovation and Sustainability: Bridging the Academic-Practitioner Divide" will be held on August 10th and 11th at the downtown campus of UT-San Antonio. The sessions follow a unique format where the participating companies set the context for the research challenge and the participants, using a design thinking framework and facilitated by a trained facilitator, define the research problem and develop research designs to address the identified problem. This facilitated conversation between academy and industry, we hope, will lead to fruitful and mutually beneficial research collaborations between the participating companies and academics. We are fortunate to have commitments from leading organizations such as Infosys, Lockheed Martin, FDIC and AGCO to participate as "problem/context setters."
We also have an outstanding panel to kick off the conference and remain with us for the sessions. The panel includes Sandra Waddock, the Galligan Chair of Strategy and Senior Research Fellow at the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, Sim Sitkin, Director of the Center on Leadership and Ethics (COLE) at Duke's Fuqua School of Business, and Stephen Hayes, CEO of ICCPM, the International Centre for Complex Project Management. More details and conference schedule are posted at the NLS web site (http://nls.aomonline.org/)
I hope you can join us at this event. We are excited about the possibilities of this kind of endeavor, and are looking for people who we know will make this conference a strong starting point upon which we can build in the future.
Registration is free and space is limited (due to the unique format), so we urge you to consider signing up by going to:
http://www.planetreg.com/E51183943199
Looking forward to seeing many of you in San Antonio,
--Nagaraj
On behalf of the NLS Conference Organizing Committee:
Krzysztof Dembek, Monash University (kdembek@gmail.com)
Mary Uhl-Bien, University of Nebraska (mbien2@unl.edu)
Nagaraj Sivasubramaniam, Duquesne University (sivasubr@duq.edu)
Mary Sully de Luque, Thunderbird School of Global Management (mary.sullydeluque@thunderbird.edu)
Kim Jaussi, Binghamton University (kjaussi@binghamton.edu)
Nagaraj Sivasubramaniam
Associate Professor of Leadership
Department of Management
Palumbo-Donahue Schools of Business
Duquesne University
600 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15282
http://mba.sustainability.duq.edu/
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