December 14

5:30-7:30pm | Registration and cocktail reception

7:30-9:30pm | Early Career dinner for Junior Faculty and Postdocs

December 15

7:00-8:30am | Registration & continental breakfast

8:30-8:45am | Introduction and welcome

8:45-10:15 | Plenary I: Innovation

Chair | Henry Chesbrough, Semiconductor Industry Center, UC-Berkeley | paper.pdf
Speaker | Michael J. Piore, Industrial Performance Center, MIT
Speaker | Steve Barley, Affiliate, Stanford University

10:15-10:45am | Coffee Break

10:45-12:15pm | Innovation Topical Sessions (choose one of three - click for more information)

(1) Integration and Innovation
(2) Government/University Roles In Innovation
(3) New Product/Process Development in Global Setting

12:30-1:30pm | Lunch

1:45-3:15pm | Parallel Sessions Part I (choose one of five - click for more information)

(1) Inter-firm Relations and Supply Chains
(2) Market Entry
(3) Regulation
(4) LEHD Studies: Human Resources and Firms
(5) Performance in the Health Care Industry

3:15-3:45pm | Tea Break

3:45-5:15pm | Parallel Sessions Part II (choose one of five - click for more information)

(1) Outsourcing Services
(2) Industry Structure and Dynamics
(3) Business and the Environment
(4) Collective Bargaining and Dispute Resolution
(5) Planning/Logistics in Complex Systems

5:30-6:30pm | Cocktail reception

6:30-8:30pm | Dinner/Award Ceremony | Industry Studies: An Observational Science, informal remarks by Ralph E. Gomory, President, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

December 16

7:00-8:30am | Continental breakfast

8:30-10:00am | Plenary II: Globalization

Chair | Timothy Sturgeon, Industrial Performance Center, MIT | paper.pdf | presentation
Speaker | Rose Batt, Affiliate, Cornell University
Speaker | Ashish Arora, Software Industry Center, Carnegie Mellon University

10:00-10:15am | Coffee Break

10:15-11:45am | Globalization Topical Sessions (choose one of three - click for more information)

(1) Global Value Chains: Governance and Enablers
(2) Globalization and Jobs
(3) China and India in the Global Economy

11:45-12:10pm | Wrap up and adjourn

12:15-1.15pm | Informal lunch