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