AIB 2012 Conference Proceedings - Academy of International ...

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Session: 2.2.P - Panel
Track: 12 - Value Creation and Work
Showcase Panel on Global Organization and Reconfiguration of Value Creation and Work
Presented On: July 2, 2012 - 10:45-12:00
Chair: Ram Mudambi, Temple University
Panelists:
Ram Mudambi, Temple University
Tarun Khanna, Harvard Business School
Pankaj Ghemawat, IESE Business School
Arie Y. Lewin, Duke University
Bruce Kogut, Columbia University
(For more information, please contact: Ram Mudambi, Temple University, USA: rmudambi@temple.edu)
Session: 2.2.1 - Panel
Track: 11 - SMEs and Entrepreneurship
Women Starting and Leading Businesses in Adverse Conditions
Presented On: July 2, 2012 - 10:45-12:00
Chair: Amanda Bullough, Thunderbird School of Global Management
Co-Chair: Susan Forquer Gupta, Monmouth University
Panelists:
Amanda Bullough, Thunderbird School of Global Management
Susan Forquer Gupta, Monmouth University
Liesl Riddle, George Washington University
Wynona Heim, Thunderbird School of Global Management
Mary Boyden Teagarden, Thunderbird School of Global Management
Margareta S. Schettler, U.S. Department of State
Maria Peña, Vital Voices Global Partnerships
Nakiye Boyacigiller, Sabancı University
Elizabeth Vazquez, WEConnect International
The purpose of this panel is to begin a high-level dialogue on the various adversities facing women in business
around the world. The goal is stimulate more research and education in the area of women's entrepreneurship
in places with adverse working and living conditions. This is important because most empirical research has
been done in a Western context, and business education initiatives are based on that context and might not be
the most effective in areas of adversity. Getting the public, education, and private sectors together on this panel
would open more lines of contact for this type of work, which is important for program and policy making. With
all the good work being done by each of these sectors, we have a lot to learn from each other. That learning
can be translated into knowledge and best practices to better serve women's advancement worldwide. In
addition, while educators and policy makers in places with comparatively less adversity have something to offer,
there is also a lot to be learned from women operating in places of more adversity. Another goal of this panel is
instigate a discussion of how the level of adversity, or the different types of adverse conditions, might affect
women differently and therefore require different strategies to promote women's advancement. (For more
information, please contact: Amanda Bullough, Thunderbird School of Global Management, USA:
amanda.bullough@thunderbird.edu)
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