Chair and Discussant:

Mike Useem, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Speakers:

Joseph Galaskiewicz, University of Arizona
“Does Sector Matter to Consumers and Why? A Study of Satisfaction with Providers of Children’s Activities in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area”
 
Rakesh Khurana, Harvard Business School
“Mission-driven Governance”

William Ocasio, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
“Governance and Leadership in U.S. Corporations: Insights and hypotheses from a study of General Electric, 1940-2001”

Chair and Discussant:
Ezra Zuckerman, MIT

Speaker:

Joel Podolny, Dean, Yale School of Management
"Governance and Leadership Through Networks."

Chair:
Katherine Klein, University of Pennsylvania

Discussant:
Matthew Salganik, Princeton University

Speakers:

Matthew Bothner, University of Chicago
“Primary Status, Complementary Status, and Capital Acquisition in the U.S. Venture Capital Industry”

Delia Baldassarri, Princeton University
"Multivocality and Local Action in Civic Networks"
Abstract
 
John Padgett, University of Chicago
“Open Elite? Social Mobility, Marriage, and Family in Florence, 1282-1494”

Chair and Discussant:
Mary O'Sullivan, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Speakers:

Ruth Aguilera, University of Illinois
“An Organizational Approach to Comparative Corporate Governance: Costs, Contingencies, and Complementarities

Jason Owen-Smith, University of Michigan
“Molecules and Monday”

David Stark, Columbia University
“Opening Closure: Intercohesion and Entrepreneurial Dynamics in Business Groups”