Agenda
June 30, 2019
5:00 pm-8:30 pm Opening Session: Invitation to an Amazing Journey
Location: “Het Nieuwe Instituut”, Museum for Architecture, Design and Digital Culture
Facilitator: Jerry Davis, University of Michigan
Co-facilitator: Pursey Heugens, Rotterdam School of Management
July 1, 2019
8:30-9:00 am Introduction Session: Gathering Momentum for Action
Session Facilitator: Ruth Bolton, Arizona State University
9:00-10:30 am Session 1: Contributing to a Better World through our Research
Session Facilitator and Speaker: David Reibstein, The Wharton School
Session Co-facilitator: Patricia Dechow, University of Southern California
Small Group discussion questions
- What are the opportunities for change?
- What the anticipated barriers or resistance points?
- What ideas to overcome the strongest resistance; both big ideas and small wins?
10:50-12:00 Session 2: Visioning Business Research in 2030
Session Facilitator: Anne S. Tsui, University of Notre Dame
Session Co-facilitator: Maurizio Zollo, Imperial College London
Small Group discussion questions:
“Imagine” in 2030,
- What type of research is being published in your school, in your journal, or discussed in the conferences?
- How are scholarly contributions being measured and rewarded?
- What kind of research success is being celebrated?
12:00-1:30 pm Lunch: Theme: Responsible Research Exemplars
Session Facilitator: Wilfred Mijnhardt, Rotterdam School of Management
Session Co-facilitator: Jean-Alexis Spitz, EFMD
Remarks:
Stephanie Bryant, AACSB
Ulrich Hommel, EFMD
Responsible Research Presentations:
Leonard Berry, Texas A&M University
Jeffrey Hales, The University of Texas at Austin
Jennifer Howard-Grenville, University of Cambridge
Marcin Kacperczyk, Imperial College London
Beril Toktay, The Georgia Institute of Technology
1:30-3:00 pm Session 3: Measuring Progress in Responsible Research
Session Facilitator and Speaker: Richard Lyons, University of California, Berkeley
Session Co-facilitator: Tony Travaglione, University of Newcastle Australia
Small Group discussion questions:
- Responsible research metrics: What are the 3-5 best metrics already in use? What could be developed over the short term, e.g., 1-2 years, and what would that development take?
- Societal impact metrics: Thinking longer term, what kinds of metrics can we imagine becoming feasible by, say, 2030, and what dimensions of wider societal impact are among the most important under-covered ones?
3:30-5:00 pm Session 4: Navigating the Transition toward Responsible Research
Session Facilitator: Michael Toffel, Harvard Business School
Session Co-facilitator: Zhixue Zhang, Peking University
Speaker: Pursey Heugens, Rotterdam School of Management
Small Group discussion questions:
- What ideas can we try (pilot) by my stakeholder group (journals, schools, associations and accreditation agencies, senior scholars), focusing on “What I as a dean/editor/senior scholar, etc., can do?”
- What approaches or methods can we use to introduce the pilot idea to each stakeholder group (faculty for schools; editorial board for journals, association leadership team; senior scholars).
- What are the advantages, benefits, or rewards of being “change leaders”?
5:00- 6:00 pm Moving Forward: Gathering and Advancing
Session Facilitator: William (Bill) Glick, Rice University
Session Co-facilitator: Jerry Davis, University of Michigan
Reflection Panel:
Caryn Beck-Dudley, Santa Clara University
Robert Bloomfield, Cornell University
Eli Jones, Texas A&M University
Qiao Liu, Peking University
Kjell Nyborg, University of Zurich
Linda Price, University of Oregon
Thomas Robertson, The Wharton School
Luk Van Wassenhove, INSEAD
6:00-8:00 pm Closing Dinner: The Promises and Challenges of Academic-Practitioner Collaboration in Knowledge Co-creation and Impact-Driven Business Research
Session facilitator: Maurizio Zollo, Imperial College London
Fireside Speaker: André Van Heemstra, Former Global Head of HR at Unilever, Current Chair of the Supervisory Board of Leiden Asia Centre