#  Peter Marsden's Retirement Symposium Program 

 



 William James Hall -1550

 Panel 1: Chair - [Debra Minkoff](https://sociology.barnard.edu/profiles/debra-minkoff), Barnard College, Department of Sociology

 12:30 [Joel Podolny](https://www.linkedin.com/in/joel-podolny), CEO Honor Education  
*Leading Innovation Through Rugged Landscapes*

 1:00 [Sameer Srivastava](https://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/srivastava/), UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business   
*Throwing Curveballs: Unpacking Surprising Questions in Evaluative Settings and Probing their Origins*

 1:30 [Elizabeth Gorman](https://sociology.as.virginia.edu/people/elizabeth-gorman), University of Virginia, Department of Sociology  
*What Explains Change in Professional Regulation? The Regulatory Bargain, the Institutional Context, and the Case of U.S. Accounting*

 2:00 [Ruth Aguilera](https://damore-mckim.northeastern.edu/people/ruth-v-aguilera/), Northeastern, D’Amore-McKim School of Business  
*The Unintended Consequences of Shareholder Activism*

 2:30 [Ranjay Gulati](https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=77265), Harvard Business School  
*The Dynamics of Interorganizational Networks*

 3:00 Coffee Break

 Panel 2: Chair - [Frank Dobbin](/people/frank-dobbin), Harvard University, Department of Sociology

 3:30 [Brooke Harrington](https://sociology.dartmouth.edu/people/brooke-harrington), Dartmouth, Department of Sociology  
*Networks and Secrecy in Offshore Finance*

 4:00 [Rakesh Khurana](https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=6921), Harvard, Dean of the College  
*Circulating Among the Elites: Musings on the Social Fabric of CEO Labor Markets, Elite Business Schools, Davos Encounters, and Harvard Donors*

 4:30 [Kevin Lewis](https://sociology.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/faculty%20members/kevin-lewis.html), UC San Diego, Department of Sociology  
*(Digital) Network Data and Measurement*

 5:00 [Mark Chaves](https://sociology.duke.edu/mark-chaves), Duke, Department of Sociology  
*Congregations, Clergy, and Religious Trends*

 5:30 [Arne Kalleberg](https://sociology.unc.edu/people-page/arne-kalleberg/), University of North Carolina, Department of Sociology  
*Studying Organizations and Workers: Reflections on a Nearly 40 Year Journey with Peter Marsden*

 6:00  Reception in WJH Library - 1st floor

 7:00 Dinner in WJH Library

 **[Please RSVP](mailto:///obinder@fas.harvard.edu)**