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Professors Daniel Diermeier, Tim Feddersen and Adam Galinsky spoke at the Symposium on Corporate Human Rights Responsibility

Ford Center director Daniel Diermeier in the news:
Daniel Diermeier speaks again to First Business Morning News about tainted products from China. Watch video

Daniel Diermeier comments on Whole Foods CEO John Mackey. Read

Daniel Diermeier speaks to First Business Morning News about tainted products from China. Watch video

Daniel Diermeier comments on Veggie Booty snack recalls in Newsweek. Read

Daniel Diermeier comments on the termination of Amy Jacobson in "Choosing ethics over employees." Available to subscribers of chicagobusiness.com.

Chicago Microfinance Conference
May 25, 2007, University of Chicago, Gleacher Center- downtown Chicago

The Chicago Microfinance Conference is a collaborative effort among students from The Kellogg School of Management, Chicago GSB, The Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, and public policy institutions that brings together practitioners, academics, and emerging industry leaders to advance the strategic dialogue of the future of microfinance.  The 2007 conference will examine the latest trends shaping the microfinance industry including impact measurement, securitization and expanding reach through product and technology innovations.  For more information and to register www.chicagomicrofinance.com
If you have any questions, please contact the Kellogg members of the Organizing Committee: Brian O'Malley or Makiko Yamashita

Professor Diermeier delivers annual Nota Bene lecture
Professor Daniel Diermeier spoke to a capacity student audience on April 18 as part of the Kellogg School’s Nota Bene lecture series. Diermeier delivered a lecture titled, “Reputation Management: Beyond the Obvious.”  Read the full article

Roderick Swaab receives NESCoR Dissertation Award
(Antwerpen, Belgium. February 8, 2007) Center associate Roderick I. Swaab received the NESCoR Dissertation Award for his PhD dissertation “Communication and negotiation in groups and teams: Causes and consequences of shared cognition and group solidarity" (University of Amsterdam, 2005). The NESCoR dissertation award is an annual award for the best doctoral dissertation in Communication Science in the Netherlands.

Social Impact Club Career Fair 2007
The Social Impact Club will be hosting its third annual Career Fair targeting organizations that uphold the values of social and environmental responsibility. About 30 organizations will be represented. The event will take place Wednesday, February 21, 2007, 1:00 - 3:30 pm in the atrium of the Jacobs Center. For more information contact jzeldin2007@kellogg.northwestern.edu.

Post-doctoral Position Annoucement
Post-doctoral position available in Computational Linguistics Language and Political Behavior. Read position description (PDF 24 KB)

LA Times Article highlights FBI Executive Education Program
Daniel Diermeier and FBI executive education course earn mention in the Los Angeles Times article, "The new FBI means business; As the bureau adapts to the post-9/11 world, it sends supervisors and agents to corporate management school" (12/28/2006)

Conflict and Cooperation Conference, Fall 2006
Prof. Sandeep Baliga was the organizer of the Kellogg Conflict and Cooperation Conference on Nov. 11. Read about the conference

14th Annual Net Impact Conference
Kellogg School students played a leadership role in orchestrating the 14th Annual Net Impact Conference, hosted by Kellogg Oct. 27-29. More than 150 students from the Social Impact Club contributed their talents in various ways, including marketing, logistics and curriculum. Read the full article

Kellogg Social Impact Club's lecture series
Paul Carothers, vice president of global public affairs at Kraft Foods, spoke Oct. 18 as part of the Kellogg Social Impact Club's lecture series. Read the full article

Professor Daniel Diermeier assumes Directorship of Ford Center
As of September 1st, 2006, Professor Daniel Diermeier will assume leadership responsibilities for the Ford Center. Formerly the director of the Center for Business, Government and Society, Dr. Diermeier has played an active role in the development of the Ford Center, serving as a faculty affiliate since its inception and as acting director from 2001-2002. All projects, activities, and research affiliated with the Center for Business, Government, and Society will be integrated into the purview new Ford Center.

Global Health Initiative Receives Grant from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Read more on the Kellogg School Web site.

“Communication media and negotiations: Meta-analyses on processes and outcomes.” receves the Best Paper award at the International Association of Conflict Management (Montreal, Canada, 2006).
Roderick Swaab, Professor Victoria Medvec and Professor Daniel Diermeier have collaborated on a series of papers using the ayeware software to study multi-party decision-making. The research examines the efficiency of multiparty negotiated agreements and team decision-making in computer-mediated and face-to-face negotiations. Specifically, the project investigates the influence of the ability to communicate privately and knowledge of the other parties/identities on the negotiated outcomes. One of the papers from this research collaboration, “Communication media and negotiations: Meta-analyses on processes and outcomes.” by Swaab, R.I. Diermeier, D., Medvec, V.., recently receved the Best Paper award at the International Association of Conflict Management (Montreal, Canada, 2006).

Research Highlight: June 30, 2006
"Communication media and negotiations: Meta-analyses on processes and outcomes" by Roderick I. Swaab, Victoria Medvec, & Daniel Diermeier (PDF 186 KB) Winner of the best paper award at the International Association of Conflict Management in Montreal, Canada, 2006.

Research Highlight: February 20, 2006
"Strategic Ambiguity and Arms Proliferation" by Sandeep Baliga and Tomas Sjöström (PDF 254 KB) A big country is facing a small country that may have developed weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). The small country can create strategic ambiguity by not allowing arms inspections. We study the impact of strategic ambiguity on arms proliferation and the probability of conflict. Creating strategic ambiguity is a substitute for actually acquiring new weapons: a policy of ambiguity reduces the incentive for the small country to invest in a weapons program, which reduces the risk of arms proliferation. Therefore, strategic ambiguity tends to benefit the big country. On the other hand, strategic ambiguity may hurt the small country because it does not always protect it from an attack. Cheap-talk messages can be used to trigger inspections when they are most valuable to the big country. To preserve incentive compatibility, the “tough” messages which make inspections more likely must imply a greater risk of arms proliferation.