Provost Series
2005-2006 Provost Series Speakers
April 7, 2006
William Dutton, Director, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, U.K.
“The Social Dynamics of the Internet”
March 3, 2006
Paul Duguid, Visiting Scholar, University of California-Berkeley
“Communities of Practice and Organizational Learning: A Reappraisal”
December 2, 2005
Rudy Hirschheim, Ourso Family Distinguished Professor of Information Systems at Louisiana State University.
“Outsourcing, Offshoring: What do we really know”
October 11, 2005
Maria Helena Moreira Alves, Professor and Human Rights Advocate
“Implementing Programs of Business Social Responsibility”
2004-2005 Provost Series Speakers
April 8, 2005
Gary L. Kreps, Chief of the Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch at National Cancer Institute
E-Health Communication and Cancer
February 11, 2005
John L. King, Professor and Dean of School of Information, University of Michigan
“Does IT Matter?”
October 22, 2004
Robert D. Austin, Associate Professor at Harvard Business School
“Artful Process and Business Innovation: What Managers Can Learn from Artists about 21st-Century Value Creation”
October 1, 2004
Wanda J. Orlikowski, Professor, Sloan School of Management, MIT
“Digital Genres: Exploring Technology Use in Organizational Discourse”
2003-2004 Provost Series Speakers
May 7, 2004
Andre Delbecq
“Exploring Strategic Decision Failures: Overlaying Insights from Spiritual/Wisdom Traditions on Contemporary Decision Theory”
April 23, 2004
Georg von Krogh
“Open Source Software Development and the Private-Collective Innovation Model”
February 13, 2004
John Seely Brown
“Social Life of Knowing: Creating a Context for Continuous Learning and Innovating in the Knowledge Economy”
November 21, 2003
Saskia Sassen
“Digital Formations: Constructing an Object for Study”
October 31, 2003
Geoff Walsham
“Cross-Cultural Issues in Global Software Outsourcing”
