Past Derber Lectures

Topic:

Good Jobs, Good Service: Redesigning Service Sector Work in the Global Information Age

Date:

May 1, 2007

Speaker:

Rosemary Batt

Title:

Alice Hanson Cook Professor of Women and Work

Institution:

Cornell University

Topic:

National Culture and People Management: Claims and Evidence

Date:

April 4, 2006

Speaker:

Barry Gerhert

Title:

Professor of Management and Human Resources; Bruce R. Ellig Distinguished Chair in Pay & Organizational Effectiveness; Director, Strategic Human Resources Program

Institution:

University of Wisconsin, School of Business

Topic:

The Economic Benefits of Workforce Diversity: Promises & Progress

Date:

April 11, 2005

Speaker:

Susan Jackson

Title:

Professor of Human Resource Management

Institution:

Rutgers University, School of Management and Labor Relations

Topic:

Can Increased Organizing Reverse the Declines of Unions in the U.S.? Lessons from the Last Quarter Century

Date:

April 1, 2004

Speaker:

Henry Farber

Title:

Professor of Economics

Institution:

Princeton University, Economics Department

Topic:

The Supreme Court, Access to Higher Education, and Building an Integrated Workplace

Date:

April 8, 2003

Speaker:

Nancy Cantor

Title:

Chancellor

Institution:

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Topic:

Money and Motivation

Date:

April 22, 2002

Speaker:

Sara L. Rynes

Title:

John F. Murray Professor of Management; Chair of Department of Management and Organizations

Institution:

University of Iowa, Tippie College of Business

Topic:

The Gender Pay Gap: Going, Going...But Not Gone

Date:

March 30, 2001

Speaker:

Francine D. Blau

Title:

Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial & Labor Relations; Research Director of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations; Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA

Institution:

Cornell University, School of Labor & Industrial Relations

Topic:

Human Resources & Business Performance: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why

Date:

April 12, 2000

Speaker:

David Lewin

Title:

Neil Jacoby Professor of Management

Institution:

UCLA, Human Resources & Organizational Behavior, Anderson Graduate School of Management

Topic:

Culture and Negotiation

Date:

April 20, 1999

Speaker:

Jeanne M. Brett

Title:

DeWitt W. Buchanan, Jr. Professor Dispute Resolution and Organizations

Institution:

Northwestern University, Organization Behavior Dept., Kellogg Graduate School of Management

Topic:

The New Deal at Work: Managing Without Commitment

Date:

April 30, 1998

Speaker:

Peter Cappelli

Title:

Professor and Chair, Management Dept.; Director, Center for Human Resources; Co-Director, National Center on the Educational Quality of the Workforce

Institution:

University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School

Topic:

Rosies, Flight Girls, and Waitress Moms: Working Women & Economic Justice in Post-War America

Date:

April 2, 1997

Speaker:

Dorthy Sue Cobble

Title:

Associate Professor

Institution:

Rutgers University, School of Management & Labor Relations

Topic:

Labor's Time: Rebuilding Union Influence

Date:

April 18, 1996

Speaker:

Richard L. Trumka

Title:

Secretary-Treasurer, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO); President Emeritus, United Mine Workers of America

Institution:

AFL-CIO

Topic:

Changing National Labor Policy: The Role of the Dunlop Commission

Date:

April 18, 1995

Speaker:

Thomas A. Kochan

Title:

George M. Bunker Professor of Management; Member, Commission of the Future of Worker-Management Relations

Institution:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management

Topic:

Women in the Workplace and the Role of the Glass Ceiling Commission

Date:

April 12, 1994

Speaker:

Joyce D. Miller

Title:

Executive Director, Glass Ceiling Commission

Institution:

U.S. Department of Labor

Topic:

Joint Action for a Healthy Economy

Date:

April 13, 1993

Speaker:

Irving Bluestone

Title:

Professor of Labor Studies; Retired Vice President of United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America - UAW

Institution:

Wayne State University, College of Urban, Labor and Metorpolitan Affairs

Topic:

The International Exchange of Ideas in Industrial Relations

Date:

January 23, 1992

Speaker:

John Niland

Title:

Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Commerce & Economics

Institution:

The University of New South Wales, New Zealand

Topic:

Industrial Relations: Relevant & Resilient

Date:

October 9, 1990

Speaker:

Reobert B. McKersie

Title:

Professor of Labor & Industrial Relations

Institution:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management