Management & Organizations

Wilbur K. Pierpont Collegiate Professor of Management

Professor of Sociology

Co-Director, ICOS (Interdisciplinary Committee on Organization Studies)

Editor, Administrative Science Quarterly

"Inequality and Occupy" Ross School of Business panel on Occupy Wall Street, February 8, 2012.

"How Wall Street reshaped America" Ann Arbor City Club, February 8, 2012.

"Finance capitalism 2.0: How BlackRock became the new J.P. Morgan" Labor and Employment Relations Association annual meeting, Chicago, January 7, 2012.

"Building with the ruins of the past: Opportunities for social organization created by the collapse of shareholder capitalism" American Sociological Association panel on "Economic utopias and dystopias: Possible trajectories from the financial crisis," Las Vegas, August 20, 2011.

"Corporations and economic inequality around the world" University of California at Los Angeles Anderson School, May 20, 2011; University of Minnesota Carlson School, April 29, 2011; Cornell University Johnson School/ILR School, March 14, 2011.

"Finance and society" Laurent Picard Distinguished Lecture, McGill University, April 12, 2011.

"Organizational alternatives after shareholder capitalism" Second annual Adolph A. Berle Jr. Symposium Lecture, Seattle University Law School, January 22, 2011.

"How finance turned corporations into rootless cosmopolitans" American Sociological Association panel on "Finance and corporate citizenship," Atlanta, August 17, 2010.

"Can corporations care?" Academy of Management All-Academy Panel on "Making caring less daring: Overcoming the challenges of compassion," Montreal, August 8, 2010.

"The future of doctoral education in management." Academy of Management panel on "The future of doctoral education," Montreal, August 8, 2010.

"US corporations in the recovery and beyond." Conference panel at Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, The New School for Social Research, April 23, 2010.

"Corporations and economic inequality around the world: The paradox of hierarchy." Ross School of Business Management & Organizations Brown Bag, February 10, 2010.

"Policy as Myth and Ceremony? The Global Spread of Stock Exchanges, 1980 – 2005." Networks Workshop, University of Michigan Political Science department, January 12, 2010.

"How finance reshaped America." Stanford University Schools of Education and Engineering, May 17, 2010; University of Maryland RH Smith School of Business, May 6, 2010; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Business, April 28, 2010; Princeton University Sociology Department, April 1, 2010; University of Toronto Rotman School of Management, November 23-24, 2009; University of Pennsylvania Wharton School, November 16, 2009; Columbia Business School, November 3, 2009; Economic Club of Grand Rapids, October 19, 2009; University of Michigan Ross School of Business--Hosmer Faculty Seminar, October 6, 2009; Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern, June 3, 2009; Dartmouth Tuck School of Business, May 12, 2009; University of Chicago Booth School of Business O&M Workshop, May 5, 2009; Western Academy of Management keynote, March 29, 2009; University of Western Ontario Ivey School of Business, March 10, 2009; "Michigan Difference" seminar, Palm Beach, Florida, February 3, 2009.

"How finance maimed America." Academy of International Business Conference on "Emerging Research Frontiers in International Business," Charleston, SC, December 5, 2009.

"Corporate governance and the financial crisis." Aspen Institute web seminar, October 27, 2009.

"After the ownership society: Another world is possible." "Markets On Trial" conference, Northwestern University, October 24, 2009.

"How do organizations matter?" Social Interaction & Organization at Northwestern gala opening conference, Northwestern University, October 16, 2009.

"One scholar's journey: A cautionary tale." "Scholar's Journey" seminar, Hosmer Faculty Seminar, Ross School of Business, September 22, 2009.

"Not just a mortgage crisis: How finance maimed society." Academy of Management annual meetings, Chicago, August 10, 2009.

"Can we blame bad corporate governance for failing financial institutions?" "Capital Matters: Managing Labor's Capital" conference, Harvard Law School, April 30, 2009.

"Corporate elites and states after financialization." CRESC seminar on "Studying Elites: Theory, Evidence, Practice," University of Manchester UK, April 24, 2009.

"Next steps: questions, metrics, data, designs." Workshop on "Centers, Universities, and the Scientific Innovation Ecology," National Science Foundation, March 27, 2009.

"How finance reshaped America." Ross School of Business Alumni Board of Governors, The University of Michigan, September 24, 2009; Ross School of Business Corporate Advisory Board, The University of Michigan, March 15, 2009.

"Social movements and organization theory: toward a new synthesis." Groupe ESC Rouen "La Fabrique de la Strategie" series, Paris, February 24, 2009.

ASQ editorial board meeting, Academy of Management, August 14, 2011