Provost's Seminar Series

The Provost’s Seminar Series comprises periodic seminars by guest speakers, dedicated to a transdisciplinary treatment of key issues in the modern world, targeted to scholars and practitioners.

R.S.V.P. to Diane Whelan at 781.891.2471, in the Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs for all seminars. A reception immediately follows each seminar.  
 

Previous Seminars:

April 24, 2009
Professor Robin Mansell
London School of Economics
Topic:  The Life and Times of The Information Society: A Critique of the Vision

 

 

February 13, 2009
Professor William Kinney
University of Texas at Austin
Topic:   Mechanism Design for Demand-Driven Global Financial Reporting

  

 

November 21, 2008
Nicholas Maxwell - University College, London
Topic:  "The Urgent Need for an Academic Revolution: From Knowledge to Wisdom"

  
    Bob Galliers and Nicholas Maxwell

April 18, 2008
Bentley College and the Center for Emerging Market Enterprises at
the Fletcher School, Tufts University, presented: Thomas J. Linsmeier, Member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), The Future of Financial Reporting: Moving the United States toward One International Reporting System" and David Cairns, former member, International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), "The Accounting Revolution: The Convergence of U.S. GAAP and IFRS."

 

 

    Shirley Hunter (Tufts), Thomas Linsmeier, David Cairns, Bob Galliers

  

 
Richard T. Watson and Bob Galliers

November 16, 2007
Richard T. Watson, J. Rex Fuqua Distinguished Chair
for Internet Strategy,
Terry College of Business, University of Georgia
“Text Project” Global

February 1, 2008 


John A. Deighton, Harvard Business School,  speaking to the audience at the “Marketing,  Privacy and Technology” Seminar . 

 
Bob Galliers and John Van Maanen

March 30, 2007
John Van Maanen, Erwin H. Schell Professor of Organization Studies, MIT Sloan School of Management
“Ethnography Then
and Now”

 
Bob Galliers and Allen Lee

February 2, 2007
Allen Lee, Professor of Information Systems, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, School of Business, Virginia Commonwealth University
“Scientific Study of Information Systems”

 
Michael Myers and Bob Galliers

Friday, December 15, 2006
Michael Myers, Professor, Department of Management Science and Information Systems, University of Auckland, New Zealand
“IT Offshoring”

 
Bob Galliers and Arie Lewin

Friday, October 20, 2006
Arie Lewin, Professor of Business Administration and Sociology, and Director of the Center for International Business Education and Research, Duke University 
“Multi-year Offshoring Research Network Project”

                
Peter Miller and Bob Galliers

Friday, October 6, 2006 
Peter Miller, Professor of Management Accounting, and Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation, LSE, U.K.
“Capital Budgeting, Science and the Economy”

2003-2006 Provost Series Speakers

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