On February 16th and 17th 2006 the Center on Ethics hosted a conference on Women and Leadership. This event brought together some of the nation's preeminent scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds. The conference was cosponsored by the Center for Leadership Development and Research at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, the Faculty Women's Forum, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and the Center for Public Leadership at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
Panel topics included:
Women in the Non-Profit Sector
Women in Science
Women, Power and Equality
Women and Organizational Culture
Women and Business
Women and the Academy
A companion conference was also held at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard on March 8-10th 2006.
A selection of papers from both conferences was published:
Barbara Kellerman and Deborah L. Rhode, eds., Women and Leadership: The State of Play and Strategies for Change (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2007).
For speaker biographies, click here.
Schedule and Panelist Roster
February 16, 2006:
| 12:00-1:00pm | |
| Welcome Lunch |
Stanford Faculty Club - Gold Room
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| 1:00-2:30pm | |
| Women in Science |
Stanford Faculty Club - Gold Room
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Vivian Pinn
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Director of the Office of Research on Women's Health
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NIH
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Sheri Sheppard
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School of Engineering
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Stanford University
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Hannah Valantine
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School of Medicine
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Stanford University
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| Londa Schiebinger (Moderator) | Department of History, Director of IRWG | Stanford University |
| 2:45pm-4:15pm | |
| Women and the Non-Profit Sector |
Stanford Faculty Club - Gold Room
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Angela Blackwell
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President
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Policy Link Foundation
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Carol Larson
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President and CEO
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Packard Foundation
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Laura Arrillaga (Moderator)
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Graduate School of Business
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Stanford University
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4:30pm-5:45pm
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Welcome and Reception Opening Remarks: Women and Leadership: The State of Play Welcome |
February 17, 2006:
| 8:30-9:00am | |
| Breakfast |
Stanford Faculty Club - Gold Room
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| 9:00-10:30am | |
| Women, Power, and Equality |
Stanford Faculty Club - Gold Room
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Faye Crosby
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Department of Psychology
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UC Santa Cruz
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Peter Glick
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Department of Psychology
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Lawrence University
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Evangelina Holvino
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Center for Gender in Organizations
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Simmons School of Management
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| Myra Strober (Moderator) | School of Education | Stanford University |
| 10:45-12:15pm | |
| Women and Organizational Culture |
Stanford Faculty Club - Gold Room
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Debra Meyerson
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School of Education
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Stanford University
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Charles O'Reilly
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Graduate School of Business
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Stanford University
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Barbara Reskin
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Department of Sociology
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University of Washington
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Deborah Gruenfeld (Moderator)
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Graduate School of Business
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Stanford University
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| 12:15-1:15pm | |
| Lunch |
Stanford Faculty Club - Gold Room
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| 1:30-2:30pm | |
| Women and Business |
Stanford Faculty Club - Gold Room
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| Katherine Giscombe | Senior Director, Research | Catalyst |
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Karen Proudford
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Graves School of Business and Management
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Morgan State University
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Mimi Silbert
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Founder and CEO
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Delancey Foundation
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| Garth Saloner (Moderator) | Graduate School of Business | Stanford University |
| 2:45-4:00pm | |
| Women, Power and Presidents: The Academy and the Nation |
Stanford Faculty Club - Gold Room
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France A. Cordova
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Chancellor
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UC Riverside
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Denice Denton
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Chancellor
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UC Santa Cruz
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Marie Wilson
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President
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The White House Project
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Sharon Long (Moderator)
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Dean, Humanities and Sciences
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Stanford University
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| 4:30pm-5:30pm | |
| Director’s Reception |