Past talks&events

  • “Work-Life Balance Programs as a Case of Institutionalized and Socially Entrenched Gender Inequality”, (co-presented with Mary Still and Banu Ozkazanc-Pan). Paper Presentation at the Third Annual International Conference on Institutional. Work held at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, June 6-8, 2013.
  • “Wind beneath My Wings:  Factors Supporting Women’s Productive Entrepreneurial Activity”, Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, August 7, 2012, Boston, MA.
  • “Getting Women on Board:  A Cross-Country Comparison of Gender-Based Affirmative Action Policies for Corporate Boards,” (co-presented with Jennifer Piscopo) Paper Presentation to the International Political Science Association, July 12, 2012, XXII World Congress of Political Science, Madrid, Spain.
  • “Wind Beneath My Wings:  Factors Affecting the Transformation of Women-Founded Businesses into Gazelles,” Best Paper in Women’s Entrepreneurship Award Winner, 2011 International Council for Small Business, 2011, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • “Corporate Contributions in the Post-BCRA and Pre-Citizens United Era,” Financial Markets Group at the London School of Economics on April 26, 2010.
  • “The Hierarchy of Rights and the Modern Corporation in Crisis: the Case of A.I.G. and Executive Compensation,” UC conference “Negotiating Legal Boundaries”, Law and Society Program, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 14-16, 2009.
  • “A Political Theory of the Firm: Bringing Ownership Back into Normative Discourse”, WPSA Annual Conference, Vancouver, Canada, March 19-21, 2009.
  • “Corporate Contributions After BCRA,” University of California, Los Angeles Center for American Politics and Public Policy (“CAPPP”) Reading Group on April 9, 2008.
  • “Firm Ownership Structure and Corporate Political Behavior: A Causal Model,” Annual Meeting of the APSA, August 28-31, 2008.
    “Ownership Structure of the Firm as a Predictor of Intra-Industry Variation in Partisan Preferences,” Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management in Anaheim, California, August 9-13, 2008.
  • Invited Roundtable: An Agenda for Campaign Finance with The Forum: A Journal of Applied Research, August 28-31, 2008, APSA Annual Conference, Boston, MA.
  • “Campaign Finance as Meta-Policy,” University of Southern California’s School of Policy, Planning, and Development on November 26, 2007.
  • “Who Controls? The Theory of the Firm and Political Contributions.” MPSA Annual Conference, April 20-23, 2006.