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The IM Division's Corporate Outreach session at the 2015 Annual Meeting brings together senior leaders from global technology companies with IM Scholars.  We will discuss how we can partner together to address business and leadership implications of opening governance in a digital era.  These managers believe the transparency-security tension is one of the most important and most difficult to solve in the information era, and it's especially challenging for multinational corporations.  And, as multinational technology companies, they are at the nexus:  shaping both the tension and the solutions.  How can we, as scholars, help?

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Thanks for your contribution to the future,

Allan Bird (Northeastern University)

Martha Maznevski (IMD)

P.S.  Details on the PDW are below.  Please register here -- https://secure.aom.org/PDWReg/logon.asp -- if you'd like to join the session in person.  It is being held at Simon Fraser University's Segal Graduate Business School, a quick walk from conference hotels and the Vancouver Convention Centre.

PDW Session # 57

Opening Governance in an Unstable and Insecure World:

How can we, as academics, help technology companies create the right utopia?

Primary SPONSOR:  International Management Division

Other sponsors:   D'Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University

                                Center for Workforce Strategy, Simon Fraser University

When:   August 7, 2015;  9:00 a.m. to 12:00 Noon

Overall objective: 

Develop practice-theory partnership approaches for supporting the role of technology firms in resolving a difficult governance tension: fostering transparency while protecting privacy in managing the suddenly ubiquitous resource of data for value creation.

Summary:

In this Corporate Outreach session, we will connect scholars with executives from major technology companies who are involved in data transparency and security.  Together, we will explore the dilemmas and opportunities for good governance, particularly in international business.  Scholars will leave the session with inspiration and perspectives on how their research could shape companies' roles in managing the tension constructively, and managers will leave the session with inspiration and perspectives on what kinds of questions they should be asking and answering to best play their role in shaping the future.