Diana Bilimoria, Ph.D. – Associate Professor of of Organizational Behavior at the Weatherhead School of Management
Friday October 5, 2007
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Crawford Hall – Room 9
Inamori Center
Case Western Reserve University
Why is the movement of women into corporate leadership so slow?
What can be done to speed the process?
If there were more women in corporate leadership, what difference would it make?
Diana Bilimoria works on such issues as Associate Professor in the Department of Organizational Behavior at CWRU’s Weatherhead School of Management. Her specialty is improvement of corporate and nonprofit organizational practices of selection, performance evaluation, advancement, and leadership development to attract and retain a diverse workforce.
Professor Bilimoria is also Co-Principal Investigator of the Academic Careers in Engineering and the Sciences (ACES) project here at Case, a $3.5 million, five-year project funded by the National Science Foundation. So she has seen a wide range of the practices, obstacles, and progress within the university, as well as in the organizations on which she has done other research.
She’ll discuss glass ceilings, corporate culture, and other conundrums at the Public Affairs Lunch Discussion on Friday, October 5
The remainder of this e-mail reports what we know about the schedule for the rest of the semester. We will be sending out announcements each week. If you would prefer not to receive the announcements, please inform Dr. Andrew Lucker, Associate Director of the Center for Policy Studies, by e-mail (andrew.lucker@case.edu).
About Our Guest
Diana Bilimoria is Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Department of Organizational Behavior at Weatherhead School of Management , Case Western Reserve University . She is a Co-Investigator on a 5-year award from the National Science Foundation to Advance Women faculty in the Engineering and Sciences (ACES) at Case. She has served as the editor of the Journal of Management Education.
Dr. Bilimoria’s research focuses on gender diversity in governance and leadership, and organizational transformation. Her teaching pertains to leadership development, emotional intelligence, and the effective recruitment, advancement and retention of women and minority employees.
As a scholar, coach, educator, and consultant, Dr. Bilimoria helps individuals and organizations enhance their leadership contributions and impact to create positive benefits for the betterment of society. Her work on gender diversity, emotional intelligence, and leadership development has applications for individual, group, and organizational change. Her research has been used to facilitate the institutional transformation of research universities to become more inclusive of the success and contributions of women faculty. Other applications include the improvement of corporate and nonprofit organizational practices of selection, performance evaluation, advancement, and leadership development to attract and retain a diverse workforce.
Dr. Bilimoria received the Flora Stone Mather Center for Women’s Spotlight Series Prize for Women’s Scholarship at Case Western Reserve University in 2007, and the Weatherhead School of Management’s Doctoral Teaching Excellence Award in 2002. She has been internationally recognized for her leadership and service.
Friday Lunch and Other Public Affairs Upcoming Topics and Speakers:
Oct 12: Clean, Lean and Green? The Great Lakes Institute for Energy Research at Case Western Reserve University. J. Iwan D. Alexander, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Director, National Center for Space Exploration and Research; and Norman Tien, Dean, Case School of Engineering.
Oct 19: The Peanut Allergy Puzzles. Dr. Alton Melton, Section Head, Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital.
Other Friday Lunch topics and speakers TBA.
Also coming to campus:
October 25, 4:30 – 6:00 p.m., Ford Auditorium. Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, Harvard University (and Dean of Graduate Studies 2005-2007). A former President of both the American Political Science Association and of the Social Science History Association, among many other contributions, Dr. Skocpol is one of the most distinguished political scientists in the country.
November 12, 4:15 – 5:45 p.m., Ford Auditorium. Thomas Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, will speak on “The Invisible Primary: Money, Media and Polls in the 2008 Presidential Race.”
For more information about these and other Center for Policy Studies programs, please see http://policy.case.edu.