Event

Laurent Picard Distinguished Lecture

Thursday, October 15, 2009 11:30to13:00

Desautels Faculty of Management
Strategy and Organization Area Presents
Laurent Picard Distinguished Lecture

Presented by

Walter W. Powell
Professor of Education, Sociology, Organizational Behavior, Communication, and Management Science and Engineering
Stanford University

Title Organizational and Institutional Genesis:
Explaining the Emergence of High-Tech Clusters in the Life Sciences
Date: Thursday, October 15th, 2009
Time: 11:30 am - 1:00pm
Location: Bronfman 340

All are cordially invited to attend.

Biography:

Professor Powell works in the areas of organization theory, economic sociology, and the sociology of science. He is interested in the processes through which knowledge is transferred across organizations, and the role of networks in facilitating or hindering innovation. His current research projects include studies on the origins of university technology transfer; the consequences of increased professionalism in the nonprofit sector; the evolving network structure of the life sciences field; and how scientific ideas are created and propagated.

His articles have won numerous awards, such as the Max Weber prize for best paper in the field of organization, and the Viviana Zelizer prize for best paper in economic sociology. His publications in Administrative Science Quarterly and American Sociological Review are recognized as some of the most influential scholarly publications.

Professor Powell is also Co-Director of the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society and Director of the Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research at Stanford University. He has been a member of the board of directors of the Social Science Research Council since 2000, and an external faculty member at the Santa Fe Institute since 1999. He received his PhD in Sociology from SUNY – Stony Brook in 1978, and previously taught at Yale, MIT, and the University of Arizona. He holds honorary degrees from Uppsala University, Copenhagen Business School, and the Helsinki School of Economics, and is a foreign member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Science.

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