Center Events
All events are free and open to the public unless specified otherwise. For questions about our upcoming events, please contact us.
Fall 2007
October 18, 12 pm
Surgical Volunteerism: My Experience in Conflict Zones in Africa
Sherry Wren, Professor of General Surgery, Stanford Medical Center
Professor Wren will discuss her experiences while working on behalf of Doctors without Borders
(Médecins Sans Frontières) in Ivory Coast and Chad.
Location: School of Medicine, Alway Building, Room 104.
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October 30, 5pm
The Art and Ethics of the Internal Investigation
A panel co-sponsored by the Rock Center for Corporate Governance
Participants:
Francis S. Currie,
Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell;
Joseph A. Grundfest, William A. Franke Professor of Law and Business and Co-Director, Rock Center for Corporate Governance;
Michael Holston, Executive Vice-President and General Counsel, Hewlett Packard;
Adam A. Reeves,
Assistant U.S. Attorney, Department of Justice, Northern District of California;
Deborah L. Rohde, Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law and Director, Center on Ethics.
This panel will explore a series of difficult legal, ethical, and strategic issues that commonly arise in connection with the conduct of internal investigations of large publicly traded corporations, including questions of privilege, independence, cooperation with governmental authorities, and warnings to employees subject to interview. The panel will also address pragmatic considerations such as techniques for identifying circumstances in which it may be unnecessary to retain outside counsel, responsible strategies for controlling the cost of these investigations, and methods for addressing differences of opinion regarding the implications of an inquiry's findings.
Location: Law School, Room 180; reception to follow.
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October 31, 4:15-5:15pm
California Energy and Climate: Making a Difference in Real Time
Ralph Cavanagh, Co-Director of the Energy Program, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Co-sponsored by the Energy Seminar, the Woods Institute for the Environment
Just over one year ago, California enacted two statutes that promised international leadership on global warming solutions: AB 32 and SB 1368. This seminar session will address how we are doing and what we have left to do, from the standpoint of an active participant (NRDC was a co-sponsor of both bills).
Location: Building 420 Room 40.
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November 8, 5:30pm
Arrow Lecture Series
A Dialog with Bill Neukom: Challenges for the Legal Profession
William H. Neukom
President, American Bar Association
Partner,
Kirkpatrick and Lockhart, Preston Gates Ellis LLP
Co-sponsored by the Office of Alumni Relations
William H. Neukom, Stanford Law '67, is currently serving as President of the American Bar Association. Partner with the firm of K&L Gates, and former Executive Vice President and General Counsel for Microsoft, Mr. Neukom will address challenges for the legal profession, including social justice, the rule of law, access to legal services, and information management.
Location: Law School, Room 290; reception to follow.
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November 14, 6:00pm-8:00pm
Medical Ethics and Legal Ethics: a joint session of the Principles of Medicine classes and Law School's Legal Ethics class
A special class session on medical and legal ethics co-taught by:
Clarence H. Braddock, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine, Stanford Medical Center
Deborah L. Rhode, Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law and Director of the Stanford Center on Ethics
Reception to follow in the Law School Student Lounge.
Location: Law School Room 290.
This event is open to Stanford students, faculty and staff.
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December 9, 4:00pm
The Devil Came on Horseback: Film and Discussion on the Crisis in Darfur
In honor of International Human Rights Day, a screening of Ricki Stern's and Anne Sundberg's acclaimed documentary "The Devil Came on Horseback" that exposes the genocide raging in Darfur, Sudan as seen through the eyes of a former U.S. marine who returns home to make the story public.
The film (85 minutes long) will be followed by a discussion led by Stanford Law Professor and Director of the Ethics Center Deborah L. Rhode.
The event is co-sponsored by Amnesty International Palo Alto and San Jose Local Chapters
Location: Geology Corner, Room 320-105.
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Winter 2008
January 17, 12pm-1:30pm
Doping in Sports: The State of Play
A panel discussion on both long standing ethical questions and current controversies surrounding athletics and performance enhancing drugs.
Participants:
Carl Djerassi, Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, Stanford University;
Tara Kirk (Stanford '04, MS '05), 2004 Olympic Silver Medalist, swimming;
Dan Pfaff,
Coach of 33 track & field Olympians;
David Shaw (Stanford '95), Offensive Coordinator, Stanford Football, and Former NFL Assistant Coach;
Lance Williams, Investigative Reporter, San Francisco Chronicle, and Co-Author of the book Game of Shadows.
Location: Kissick Auditorium, Arrillaga Family Sports Center,
641 Campus Drive. [Map]
This event is co-sponsored by the Barbara and Bowen McCoy Program in Ethics in Society and the Department of Athletics.
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January 24, 12pm-1:00pm
The International Heritage Ethics Lectures: "International Law: Cultural Preservation versus Cultural Dissemination"
Helen Stacy, Senior Lecturer in Law, Stanford Law School, and
Senior Research Scholar, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, The Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Helen Stacy will discuss some of the ways international law might be used to talk about preservation and cultural identity, and how the intersection of international law and ethics informs the discourse with regards to issues of people's rights in relation to a past.
Lunch will be served.
Location:
Archaeology Center's Seminar Room, Building 500 -- Terman Engineering Labs [map]
For quesitons, please contact the Archaeology Center at: 723-5731.
This event is co-sponsored by the Stanford Archaeology Center and the Stanford Humanities Center.
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January 29, 5:30pm-7:00pm
Arrow Lecture Series: "Beyond Band-Aids: Curing the Sick American Health Care System"
Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD
Chair of the Department of Bioethics at The Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health
Dr. Emanuel will argue that the profusion of current proposals for so-called health care reform falls far short of what our sick health care system needs, that is, comprehensive reform that will secure health care for all Americans long into the future. Dr. Emanuel will present five essential changes that make up what such comprehensive reform should look like.
Location: Law School, Room 180.
This event is co-sponsored by the Stanford Center for Law and the Biosciences, the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, and the Haas Center for Public Service.
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January 31, 12pm-1:00pm
The International Heritage Ethics Lectures: “The Sevso Treasure”
John Henry Merryman, Nelson Bowman Sweitzer and Marie B. Sweitzer Professor of Law, Emeritus and
Affiliated Professor in the Department of Art, Emeritus
Professor Merryman will address ethical issues in the discovery and subsequent history of the hoard of silver objects from the late Roman Empire that have become tainted by uncertainty over their provenance and by charges of being illicit antiquities.
Lunch will be served.
Location: Archaeology Center's Seminar Room, Building 500 -- Terman Engineering Labs [map]
For quesitons, please contact the Archaeology Center at: 723-5731.
This event is co-sponsored by the Stanford Archaeology Center and the Stanford Humanities Center.
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February 4, 12pm-1:30pm
Identity Politics and the Presidential Election
A panel discussion on identity politics as it relates to the discourse around the presidential election, and the ways in which race, gender, religion, and sexuality are playing out in the campaign and debates.
Panelists:
Clayborne Carson, Professor of History and
Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute;
Michele Elam, Associate Professor of English, Stanford;
Paula M.L. Moya,
Associate Professor of English and, by courtesy, of Spanish and Portuguese, Stanford;
Deborah L. Rhode, Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law and Director of the Stanford Center on Ethics.
Lunch will be served.
Location: Tresidder Union, Cypress Room.
This event is co-sponsored by the Michelle Clayman Institute for Gender Research, The Feminist Studies Program, and the African and African American Studies.
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February 14, 12pm-1:30pm
The Ethics of Social Networking
Has online privacy become an oxymoron, or are we bound to develop a new privacy concept that prioritizes nuanced control of personal information? Is this new concept tenable? What are the benefits and risks of the standardization of social networking? What impact does social networking technology have on interpersonal virtues? Are we witnessing the flattening of social landscape by online networks? And can one be a college student without Facebook?
The Stanford Center on Ethics and the Stanford Center for Internet and Society invite you to a discussion of a host of ethical and social concerns generated by the evolving culture of social networking, particularly by Internet users' habits and Web 2.0 sites' practices and strategies — just in time for Valentine's Day.
Moderator:
Dean Eckles, Research Scientist and Designer at Nokia Research Center.
Panelists:
Dr. BJ Fogg, Director of Research and Design at Stanford's Persuasive Technology Lab, and lecturer at the Computer Science Dept;
Jia Shen, Co-Founder and CTO of RockYou;
Shannon Vallor, Professor of Philosophy at Santa Clara University.
Come and add your voice to the discussion. Free lunch is included!
Location: Tresidder Union, Cypress Room.
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Internet and Society.
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February 19, 12:45pm
Distinguished Practitioner Speaker Series
Kate Kendell, Esq.
Executive Director, National Center for Lesbian Rights
Co-sponsored by the Levin Center for Public Service and Public Interest Law
Kate Kendell is Executive Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, a progressive, feminist, multicultural legal center devoted to advancing the rights and safety of lesbians and their families. Under her leadership, NCLR's budget, programs and national impact have expanded significantly, and lesbian family issues have taken center stage in the national discussion of civil rights and justice. Ms. Kendell will discuss her distinguished career, share advice about how to thrive as a public interest lawyer, and advise students on the steps to take in that direction.
Stanford Law School, Room 180.
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February 25, 7:00pm
Arrow Lecture Series: "Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World "
Samantha Power
Anna Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
An internationally leading expert in foreign policy, human rights policy, and international law, Samantha Power is also a working journalist and a widely published columnist on foreign policy. Her book, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award for general nonfiction, and several other honors.
Among the topics she will discuss are the questions and issues left in the wake of the death of United Nations official Sergio Vieira de Mello, killed in a terrorist attack on UN Headquarters in Iraq in 2003. "Chasing the Flame," her forthcoming book on his life, examines answers to the fascinating question: Who possesses the moral authority, the political sense, and the military and economic heft to protect human life and bring peace to the unruly new world order?
Location: Kresge Auditorium,
555 Nathan Abbott Way. [Map]
This event is co-sponsored by the Barbara and Bowen McCoy Program in Ethics in Society, the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, and the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality.
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March 6, 4:30pm
Arrow Lecture Series: "Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-first Century"
Phillip C. Bobbitt, Thomas C. Macioce Professor of Law, Columbia University
Join Philip Bobbitt, one of the nation's leading constitutional theorists, as he discusses topics related to his forthcoming book, Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century.
Bobbitt will bring together historical, legal, and strategic analyses to understand the idea of a “war on terror.” Does it make sense? What are its historical antecedents? How would such a war be “won”? What are the appropriate doctrines of constitutional and international law for democracies in such a struggle? At stake is whether we can maintain states of consent in the twenty-first century or whether the dominant constitutional order will be that of states of terror.
Location: Law School, Room 190.
This event is co-sponsored by the Stanford Constitutional Law Center and the Center for International Security and Cooperation.
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March 14, 8:30am-5:00pm
The American Legal Profession: Current Controversies, Future Challenges
The Stanford Center on Ethics and the Stanford Law Review will host a conference of leading scholars and practitioners to discuss the changing face of the legal profession and its current challenges.
Scheduled panel topics include:
- Recent Trends in Law Firm Economics, Attorney Career Patterns, and Work-Life Balance
- The Changing Face of the Corporate Bar: Discrimination and Diversity at Law Firms
- Improving Access to Legal Services
- Ethics and Professional Independence in Modern Legal Practice
Location: Stanford Law Schoo, Room 190
Open and free, but registration is required. For more information and to register, please visit the conference website.
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March 19, 5:00 pm
Women of Color in the Legal Profession
This panel of four outstanding legal professionals will examine their experiences in widely varying career paths as attorneys.
Scheduled panelists:
Hon. LaDoris H. Cordell, Antioch '71, Stanford JD '74 (moderator)
Special Counselor to the President, Stanford University
First African-American Judge in Santa Clara County
Palo Alto City Council Member
Andrea Evans, Stanford '91, Harvard JD '94
Former criminal defense litigator, Steptoe & Johnson LLP, Keker & Van Nest LLP
Regional Director, Savvysource.com
Kim Rivera, Duke '91, Harvard JD '94
Vice President & Associate General Counsel, Clorox Company
Cecillia Wang, UC Berkeley '92, Yale JD '95
Senior Staff Attorney, Immigrants' Rights Project, ACLU
Former Clerk for Supreme Court Justice Henry Blackmun
Location: Stanford Law School, Room 180
This Event is co-sponsored by Women of Stanford Law.
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Spring 2008
April 7, 6:00pm-7:30pm
Women on Board: How Women Are Gaining Ground in Corporate Governance
While the press has frequently noted that CEOs of large companies are mostly men, what about their boards of directors? Recent research has suggested that multiple women serving on a corporate board can be tied to better financial performance among the Fortune 500. What makes women strong contributors to corporate boards and has this changed how companies view gender balance in their organizational leadership?
Join us for a forum that will examine the impact that women are having in the board room of corporations, as well as how professional women in their early and mid-career can prepare themselves for roles as corporate directors.
GSB faculty member, Evelyn Williams, will moderate a panel of board members and board advisors, among them two former CEOs of public companies.
PANELISTS:
Elizabeth Davila, Consultant and Former Chairman and CEO of VISX, Inc. Serves on the boards of Accuray, Inc. and Nugen, Inc.
Patti Hart, Former Chairman and CEO of Pinnacle Systems and Excite@Home. Serves on the boards of Korn Ferry International, Spansion Inc., Lin TV Corp. and International Game Technology, and previously served on the boards of Plantronics Inc., Vantive Corp., Earthlink, and Premisys Corp.
John Thompson, Vice Chairman of Heidrick & Struggles
Recognized as one of the most respected CEO and Board recruiters in the nation.
Debra Zumwalt, Vice President and General Counsel for Stanford University
Formerly a partner at Pillsbury Winthrop LLP, managing partner of the Silicon Valley office and member of the firm's governing board.
Sponsored by: GSB Center for Leadership, Development and Research; Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance; Stanford Center on Ethics; GSB Women in Management; Women's Initiative Network.
Location: Bishop Auditorium, Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Reception to follow, Upper Arbuckle. RSVP to leadership@gsb.stanford.edu
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April 8, 9, & 10 at 4:15pm
The Idea of Justice
Amartya Sen,Nobel Prize winning economist and Harvard's Lamont University Professor
Three lectures, each followed by a response from Stanford faculty member and Q&A:
Lecture 1: Indignation and Room for Reason
Lecture 2: Impartiality: Contracts versus Voice
Lecture 3: Beyond Institutional Fundamentalism
Amartya Sen, a citizen of India, studied at Presidency College in Calcutta, India, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. Before assuming his present position at Harvard, he was a professor at Delhi University, the London School of Economics, Trinity College, Cambridge, and Oxford University. His books, which have been translated into more than thirty languages, include Collective Choice and Social Welfare (1970), On Economic Inequality (1973, 1997) , Poverty and Famines (1981), Choice, Welfare and Measurement (1982), Resources, Values and Development (1984), On Ethics and Economics (1987 ) , The Standard of Living (1987), Inequality Reexamined (1992), Development as Freedom (1999), and Rationality and Freedom (2002), The Argumentative Indian (2005), and Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (2006). His research has ranged over a number of fields in economics, philosophy, and decision theory, including social choice theory, welfare economics, theory of measurement, development economics, public health, gender studies, moral and political philosophy, and the economics of peace and war. Amartya Sen has received honorary doctorates, awards and honors from universities and governments in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. He received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998.
Location: Annenberg Auditorium, Cummings Art Building.
Co-sponsors: Program in Global Justice; Aurora Forum; Center on Ethics; Program in Ethics in Society; Martin Luther King, Jr., Institute; Office of the President.
For further information, contact: Linda Hess, lionda@stanford.edu
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April 8, 5:30pm
Arrow Lecture Series: "Medicine, Soical Policy, and Public Trust"
Sir Michael Marmot, PhD, MPH
Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London
A noted research leader in health inequalities for 30 years, Sir Marmot won the Balzan Prize for outstanding achievements in Epidemiology in 2004. Internationally respected, he was knighted in 2000 by the Queen of England for services in Epidemiology and understanding health inequalities. The Stanford Department of Medicine and the Stanford Center on Ethics are pleased to invite you to participate in a dialogue about socio-economic issues that affect the quality of health care throughout the world. Topics of discussion include:
-- How does socio-economic status (SES) impact health care outcomes?
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What are the policy and clinical implications of the relationship between SES and health?
Location: Schwab Residential Center, Vidalakis Dining Room, 680 Serra Street, Stanford. Reception to follow.
Sir Michael Marmot visit is sponsored by the Haas Center for Public Service, Stanford Center on Ethics, the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, and the Department of Medicine.
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April 14 , 7:00pm
"Student Sprots Fans: When Friendly Rivalries Turn Ugly"
*Notice off campus location: Gunn High School,780 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto, CA 94306
In recent years, students have increasingly crossed the line from 'friendly' booing to outright, mean-spirited, poor sportsmanlike conduct. Our panel will explore, among other topics -- Why has this happened? Do groups like Stanford's 6th Man Club encourage this behavior? What responsibility does a school have to the opposing team? Are we seeing more of this behavior than in the past or is it just more visible with 24/7 news coverage? How can we encourage our kids to be competitive but still be good sports? This discussion is co-sponsored by the Barbara and Bowen McCoy Program in Ethics in Society and has the support of both Palo Alto high schools' PTSAs and Sports Booster clubs.
Panelists:
Benoit Monin, Stanford Professor of Psychology
Andrew Stein, Managing Director of Stanford's 6th Man Club
Dave Kiefer, long-time local sports writer
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April 17 , 12pm-1:00pm
The International Heritage Ethics Lectures: "Difficult Dialogues and Conflict Resolution"
Linda Netsch, Lecturer in Law, Stanford Law School
An all-hands workshop to improve archeologists' skills in conversing with government officials, lawyers, museums, and collectors.
Lunch will be served.
Location: Archaeology Center's Seminar Room, Building 500 -- Terman Engineering Labs [map]
For questions, please contact the Archaeology Center at: 723-5731.
This event is co-sponsored by the Stanford Archaeology Center and the Stanford Humanities Center.
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April 23, 7pm
Arrow Lecture Series: "All Animals Are Equal -- But in What Sense of Equality?"
Peter Singer, Ira W. Decamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University
In Animal Liberation (1975), a book sometimes credited with starting the modern animal rights movement, Peter Singer argued that "all animals are equal." The claim is often misunderstood, and sometimes used to caricature the animal movement. In this lecture Singer will explain what he means by the claim, why it is something that we all ought to accept, and what its implications are for our everyday life.
This event is co-sponsored by the Environmental and Natural Resources Law and Policy Program, the Barbara and Bowen McCoy Program in Ethics in Society, and the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality.
Location: Dinkelspiel Auditorium, 471 Lagunita Drive. [Map]
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May 1, 5:00-7:30pm
Rethinking Health Inequities Beyond Medicine: a dialogue and screening of the documentary "Unnatural Causes" to better understand Stanford's work in addressing health disparities through community partnerships
More information available at:
http://och.stanford.edu/
Location: Tresidder Oak Lounge West
Co-sponsored by the Office of Community Health, the Department of Medicine, Center on Ethics, and other groups on campus and beyond.
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May 8, 12pm
Arrow Lecture Series: "Campaign Ethics: The Vices of Misinformation and Manipulation"
Dennis Thompson,
Alfred North Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy and Director Emeritus of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, Harvard University.
A special lecture celebrating the Ethics Center's fifth anniversary.
What principles (if any) should we use to judge the conduct of political campaigns? We should care less about fair competition among the candidates, and more about the ability of voters to exercise free choice. Campaigns are not great moments of civic education, but neither should they be occasions for misinformation and manipulation. This lecture looks at examples of campaign practices in the past to develop some principles for judging campaigns in the future (or the present—if you bring your own examples).
Location: Tresidder Memorial Union, Cypress Room.
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May 8, 4:30pm
Stanford Center on Ethics 2003-2008: A Celebration of the First Five Years
Please join us at a special Provost's Reception to celebrate the Ethics Center's fifth anniversary.
Remarks:
John Etchemendy, Provost, Stanford University
Richard Saller, Dean, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University
Dennis Thompson, Alfred North Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy and Director Emeritus of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, Harvard University
Location: Stanford Humanities Center, Kennedy Grove, 424 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford.
RSVP by May 5th to ethics.center@stanford.edu
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May 14, 12pm
"Ethical Issues in the Design of Entrepreneurial Ventures in the Developing World"
Jim Patell, Herbert Hoover Professor of Public and Private Management, Stanford's Graduate School of Business
Todd Johnson, Founding partner of the Northern California corporate legal practice of Jones Day
Now in its fifth year, “Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability” is a graduate-level course taught in Stanford's d-school (Hasso Plattner Institute of Design). It is an intensive, two-quarter, hands-on, project course in which graduate students apply design, engineering, and business skills to create comprehensive solutions for challenges faced by the world's poorest families. Multi-disciplinary teams collaboratively design product prototypes, implementation plans, and user experiences for entrepreneurial ventures in developing countries. Students teams have developed both industrial products (e.g., water pumps, irrigation systems, solar lights, food processing equipment), and medical products (neo-natal incubators, an asthma medication device), some of which already are being distributed by partner organizations around the world, including organizations founded by course alumni. Professor James Patell and Mr. Todd Johnson, legal counsel to the course, will discuss ethical issues they have encountered in this process, such as role of intellectual property, the question of what might constitute unhealthy dependence, and the interaction between the course and the governments of the host countries.
Location: Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, Building 524, in the main theater area (Building 524 is located on 451 Panama Mall, on the corner of Duena Street and behind Memorial Church) [ Map ]
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May 15, 12pm
"Women as Leaders: Negotiating the Labyrinth"
Alice Eagly, James Padilla Chair of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University
In many nations, women have gained considerable access to leadership roles and are increasingly praised for having excellent leadership skills. In fact, women, more than men, manifest leadership styles associated with effective performance as a leader. Nevertheless, more people prefer male than female bosses, and research has demonstrated that women can still face impediments to attaining leadership roles and barriers to success as occupants of these roles. This mix of women's apparent advantages and disadvantages reflects progress toward gender equality as well as the lack of attainment of this goal. Alice Eagly, James Padilla Chair of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University, will discuss these and other current issues related with women and leadership based on her recent co-authored book, Through the Labyrinth: the truth about how women become leaders (Harvard Business School Press, 2007).
Location: Stanford Faculty Club.
Free and open to all, but seats are limited. Please RSVP to ethics.center@stanford.edu .
This event is co-sponsored by the Clayman Institute for Gender Research and the Stanford Faculty Women's Forum.
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