Strategy & the Business Environment Agenda
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Day 1
08:00-08:45 Check-in & Breakfast
08:45-09:00 Welcome
Paul Almeida, Dean, Georgetown University (McDonough)
09:00-10:30 Panel One
Gender Inequality, Social Movement and Company Actions: How Do Wall Street and Main Street React?
Presenter: Angie Fairchild, University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)
Discussant: Hong Luo, Harvard Business School
Controversial Corporate Political Activities and Shareholder Activism: A Natural Experiment of the U.S. Capitol Riot
Presenter: Bo Yang, University of Southern California (Marshall)
Discussant: Zhao Li, Princeton University
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:30 Panel Two
From Political Ties to NGO Donations? The Strategic Reconfiguration of Cross-Sector Interactions
Presenter: Aline Gatignon, University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
Discussant: Jiao Luo, University of Minnesota (Carlson)
Acquisitions, Management, and Efficiency in Rwanda’s Coffee Industry
Presenter: Ameet Morjaria, Northwestern University (Kellogg)
Discussant: Scott Ganz, Georgetown University (McDonough)
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Panel Three
Product over Politics: Entrepreneurial Firms and Lobbying
Presenter: Ivana Katic, Yale University
Discussant: Liz Liu, Georgetown University (McDonough)
Scientific Discourse and Lobbying
Presenter: Nicole West, University of Washington (Foster)
Discussant: John de Figueiredo, Duke University School of Law
15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-17:30 Panel Four
Foreign Influence in US Politics
Presenter: Max Miller, University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
Discussant: Angel Saz, ESADE
Non-Disclosure Agreements and Externalities from Silence
Presenter: Evan Starr, University of Maryland (Smith)
Discussant: Laura Boudreau, Columbia University
17:30-18:00 Reception & Business Case
The ERB Principles for Corporate Social Responsibility
Presenter: Tom Lyon (University of Michigan)
18:00-21:00 Dinner (note: limited to registered attendees)
Day 2
08:15-09:00 Breakfast
09:00-10:30 Panel Five
On Regulating A While Expecting Voluntary Performance on B: Evidence from California’s Cap-And-Trade Program?
Presenter: Aseem Kaul, University of Minnesota (Carlson)
Discussant: Tony He, Rutgers University
The Uncertainty of Sustainability Metrics
Presenter: Dylan Minor, University of California Los Angeles (Anderson)
Discussant: Michael Lenox, University of Virginia (Darden)
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:30 Panel Six
The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend: Competitor Lobbying and Regulatory Fines
Presenter: Benjamin Barber, IE Business School
Discussant: John Mayo, Georgetown University (McDonough)
Money and Cooperative Federalism: Evidence from EPA Civil Litigation
Presenter: Hye Young You, New York University
Discussant: Tom Lyon, University of Michigan
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:00 Panel Seven
When to Talk Politics in Business: Theory and Experimental Evidence of Stakeholder Responses to CEO Political Activism
Presenter: Fabrizio Dell’Acqua, Harvard Business School
Discussant: Young Hou, University of Virginia (Darden)
Polarized Corporations in the New Era of Digital Activism: Evidence from Social Media Boycotts and Employee Campaign Contributions
Presenter: Pablo Sanz, University of Michigan (Ross)
Discussant: Forrest Briscoe, Pennsylvania State University (Smeal)
15:00-15:30 Closing Reflection
15:30-17:00 Reception
Logistics and Funding
PAPERS
All conference papers, including materials for the two book talks, are available at the conference website: SBE Conference
WI-FI INFORMATION
Georgetown University is pleased to offer complimentary wireless Internet access to our campus visitors. This service enables visitors to connect to Wi-Fi without charges, codes, coupons or click-throughs.
Connecting to the eduroam wireless network with your home institution’s credentials offers the best speeds.
All other visitors can connect to the guestnet network. No password is required.
FUNDING
The SBE Conference acknowledges the Office of the Dean and the Center for Business and Public Policy in the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University for their generous funding and support.
Program Committee
David Baron, Stanford University
Vanessa Burbano, Columbia University
John De Figueiredo, Duke University
Caroline Flammer, Columbia University
Witold Henisz, University of Pennsylvania
Nan Jia, University of Southern California
Aseem Kaul, University of Minnesota
Liz Liu, Georgetown University
Jiao Luo, University of Minnesota
Tom Lyon, University of Michigan
Jeffrey Macher, Georgetown University
John Mayo, Georgetown University
Mary-Hunter McDonnell, University of Pennsylvania
David Primo, University of Rochester
Dennis Quinn, Georgetown University
Brian Roberts, University of Texas at Austin
Ken Shotts, Stanford University
Timothy Werner, University of Texas at Austin
Dennis Yao, Harvard University
Lori Yue, Columbia University