Johns Hopkins Symposium on Free Markets and Urban Grand Challenges
Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Baltimore, MD
Symposium April 23-24, 2019
PhD student consortium April 22, 2019
The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, supported by the Charles Koch Foundation, is please to announce a symposium on free markets and urban grant challenges. Urban grand challenges are systemic and inter-related problems such as violent crime, child hunger, adult obesity, substance abuse, educational underachievement, housing blight, and communicable disease that require multidisciplinary solutions.
This first symposium of its kind will gather experts in medicine, public health, nursing, education, sociology, and free enterprise from across the United States to discuss current thinking in urban grand challenges and how the principles of free markets (individual liberty, innovation, and transparently enforced rules, among others) can inform solution seeking. The symposium will consist of short presentations and discussions by experts, followed by roundtable discussions of submitted abstracts in breakout.
We invite you to submit a 250-word abstract to be presented and discussed in roundtable at the symposium. Accepted abstracts will be invited for full paper submissions to the Academy of Management Perspectives, Journal of Technology Transfer or Small Business Economics, as appropriate to the mission of each journal. There will be a $50 registration fee that covers all meals. Participants will be responsible for their own travel costs and will have access to Johns Hopkins discounted rates at area hotels.
Prior to the Symposium, the organizers will conduct a PhD students' consortium to mentor PhD students and discuss their research on free markets and urban grand challenges. Selection into the consortium will be made by a committee of senior faculty. We invite faculty to nominate their graduate students to participate in the consortium. PhD candidates should submit a 70-word abstract of their research idea. Invited candidates will receive a $1000 stipend to cover travel and accommodation costs.
Experts confirmed to date:
- David Audretsch, PhD, Professor and Ameritech Chair of Economic Development, Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs
- Robert J. Barro, PhD, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics
- Ashley Rogers Berner, PhD, Assistant Professor and Deputy Director, Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy, PhD, Johns Hopkins School of Education
- Meredith Greif, PhD, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Science, Department of Sociology
- Riitta Katila, PhD, Professor of Management Science & Engineering, Stanford University School of Engineering
- Bruce Lee, MD, MBA, Associate Professor and Executive Director Global Obesity Prevention Center, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
- Maria Minniti, PhD, Professor and Bantle Chair in Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, Syracuse University Whitman School of Management
- Timothy Moran, MD, PhD, Paul R. McHugh Professor and Executive Vice Chair and Director, Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory, Johns Hopkins Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
- Donald Siegel, PhD, Professor and School Director, Arizona State University School of Public Affairs
Submit your abstracts, with subject line 'Johns Hopkins-Koch Symposium' to pphan@jhu.edu
Dateline for abstracts and PhD consortium nominations March 1, 2019
Successful submissions will be notified by March 7, 2019
Registration and other details to follow.