Tentative Program

This is a preliminary program for this year's conference. It is subject to change as the date of the conference approaches. Please check back for updates, and delay printing this information until the program is finalized.

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Tuesday, May 29, 2012
12:00 - 5:30 Professional Development Workshop  
6:00 - 8:00

Registration and Cocktail Reception

 
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
7:00 - 7:45 Registration and Continental Breakfast  
7:45 - 9:00 Parallel Session 1:  
    1. Emerging Trends in Sustainable Energy Consumption and Supply  
    2. Evaluating Consumer Behavior and Choices  
    3. Geography, Innovation, and Mergers and Acquisitions  
    4. Disruptive Technologies and Industry Change  
    5. The Impact of Agency, Incentives, and Resources on Human Resource Management  
9:00 - 9:15 Break  
9:15 - 10:30 Plenary Session 1: Researching Industries: Engineer-Social Scientist Collaboration  
 
  • Charles Vest, President of the National Academy of Engineering
  • Stefanie Lenway, Dean of the Eli Broad College of Business, Michigan State University
  • Sir Mike Gregory, Head of the Manufacturing and Management Division of the University Engineering Department, Institute for Manufacturing
  
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break  
11:00 - 12:15 Parallel Session 2:  
    1. Supply Chain Management and Operations  
    2. Careers in and Across Organizations in the Service Sector  
    3. Households, Energy Markets, and Efficiency  
    4. When Context Matters  
    5. Innovation and Industrial Change  
    6. Intellectual Property and Innovation  
    7. Gen IS - Public Policy  
12:15 - 1:30 Lunch & Annual Business Meeting  
1:30 - 2:45 Parallel Session 3:  
    1. Location Decisions in Globalized Industries  
    2. Transportation and Logistics Infrastructures  
    3. Pathways for Sustainable Energy Production and Use  
    4. Gen IS - Housing  
    5. Technology Policy and Innovation  
    6. Global Mobile-Internet and Wireless Telecom  
    7. Gen IS - Industry Dynamics: Firm Relationships  
2:45 - 3:00 Break  
3:00 - 4:15 Parallel Session 4:  
    1. Ownership, Financing, and Incentives  
    2. The Impact of Globalization on Labor  
    3. New Research Methods for Industry Studies  
    4. Strategies for Wind Power Production  
    5. Innovation: Planning and Capabilities  
    6. Modularity and Technology Change  
    7. Gen IS - Apparel Industry Structures and Beverage Industries  
4:15 - 4:45 Coffee Break  
4:45 - 6:00 Parallel Session 5:  
    1. Talent, Knowledge, and Architecture  
    2. Skills and Knowledge Under Competition and Regulation  
    3. Sustainable Energy Supply Chain Management  
    4. Inaugural Founders Panel: The Future of the US Housing Industry  
    5. Industry Evolution and the Value Chain  
    6.

Entrepreneurship, Policy, and Institutions (II)

  
6:00 - 7:15 Cocktail Reception  
7:15 - 9:00 Founding Member Dinner  
Thursday, May 31, 2012
7:30 - 8:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast  
8:30 - 10:00

Plenary Session 2

  
   
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break  
10:30 - 12:00 Parallel Session 6:  
    1. Stakeholder Alignment in Complex Systems: Constructing Robust 21st Century Instituions  
    2. Innovation, Performance, and Resource Allocation: High-Tech Stories and Their Policy Implications  
    3. Impatient Capital in High-Tech Industries  
    4. Perspectives on the Determinants, Impact, and State of Job Quality  
    5. Managing the Supply Chain/Value Chain  
    6. Financing Entrepreneurial Innovation  
    7. The Role of Policy in Supporting Industry Clusters in the Global Value Chain  
12:00 - 1:15 Lunch / Awards Ceremony  
1:15 - 2:30 Parallel Session 7:  
    1. Coping with Change: Workers, Organizations, and Industries  
    2. The Costs of Diversifying the Energy-Base  
    3. Understanding the Great Financial Crisis of 2008: A Political Economy Perspective  
    4. Gen IS - Banking, Insurance, Financial Services  
    5. Steel: Global Scope, Local Consequences  
    6. Platform and Standards  
2:30 - 3:00 Coffee Break  
3:00 - 4:15 Parallel Session 8:  
    1. Energy Technologies: Adoption, Expansion, and Geography  
    2. Gen IS - Health Care and Health Regulation  
    3. Human Capital and Capabilities  
    4. Entrepreneurship, Policy, and Institutions (I)  
Friday, June 1, 2012
9:00 - 11:00 Excursion to Carrie Furnace  

 

Cultural Center

In addition to being the academic center of Pittsburgh, Oakland is often considered the city's cultural center. Oakland is home to the Carnegie Museums of Art and Natural History, as well as the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and the Carnegie Music Hall.