Duke-UNC-Duke Energy Board Diversity Conference Today

Remember that Duke and UNC law schools and Duke Energy are hosting a conference on corporate board diversity today at the University of North Carolina.  Admission is free -- more information here.  As you would expect from a line-up such as this, all of the papers are useful contributions, not only to the research on board diversity, but to the research on workplace and group diversity more generally. 

Those in the triangle area with an interest in diversity issues should stop by.  Though registration is technically required, if you don’t demand to be served food I’m sure that Lissa will let you in anyway.  And if you attend and offer any useful insights on board diversity, I’ll give you my food.  And if you offer any specific insights on our paper, I’ll give you my, John, and Lissa’s food.  And if you attend and also cite our paper I’ll buy you a pony . . . Okay, maybe not.  But do stop by if you’re interested in either the topic or the people.

Agenda

Board Diversity and Corporate Performance:  Filling in the Gaps

Room 4004

8:20 – 8:25      Opening Remarks and Welcome

8:25 – 9:25      Patrick Shin & Mitu Gulati, Showcasing Diversity

                        Commentator:  Kate Bartlett

9:25 – 9:35      Break

9:35 – 10:35    Lisa Fairfax, Board Diversity Revisited: New Rationale, Same Old Story?

                        Commentator:  Tom Hazen

10:35 – 10:45  Break

10:45 – 11:45  John Darley, James Fanto & Larry Solan, Board Diversity

                        Commentator:  Jerry Kang

11:45 – 12:00  Break & get lunch

12:00 – 1:00    Working lunch

Tom Tyler & Jennifer K. Brooke, Board Diversity and Corporate Performance:  Psychological Evidence

                        Commentator:  Deborah DeMott

1:00 – 1:10      Break

1:10 – 2:10      Frank Dobbin, Jiwook Jung & Alexandra Kalev, Corporate Board Gender Diversity and Stock Performance:  The Competence Gap or Institutional Shareholder Bias?

                        Commentators:  Jim Cox and Don Langevoort

2:10 – 2:20      Break

2:20 – 3:20      Sung Hui Kim, The Diversity Double Standard

                        Commentator:  James Coleman

3:20 – 3:30      Break

3:30 – 4:30      Lissa Broome, Kim Krawiec & John Conley, Dangerous Categories:  Narratives of Corporate Director Diversity

                        Commentator:  Don Langevoort

The papers and comments will be published in the North Carolina Law Review Volume 89, Issue 3. 

Download the conference flyer here: Download 2DDsympwlogosWIP1000-1

Comments

[Alfred Brophy]

It was a great conference, Kim.

[Kim Krawiec]

It was great to see you there, Al -- thanks for coming. And appreciated your comments and questions.

[Archana]

Looks like it was a great program! We did something similar on gender diversity up here at York University in Canada, and the webcasts are available at our website:

http://www.hennickcentre.ca/Genderdiversity.html