I will be speaking at US Corporations in the Recovery and Beyond

Next week, I’ll be speaking on a panel at the conference conference on US Corporations in the Recovery and Beyond hosted by The New School for Social Research in New York City. The conference is on the 22-23 of April. It was organized by William Milberg and Bill Lazonick (I have written about Bill’s great research on stock repurchases in the past)

The schedule includes an interesting mix of academics and businesspeople.  I am participating in the panel called Sustainable Human Resource Practices:

• Louis Uchitelle, New York Times (moderator)
• Mary Adams, I-Capital Advisors
• Rosemary Batt, Cornell University
• Ron Blackwell, AFL-CIO
• Jim Buonomo, Al Cotton, and Jim Elliott, Nypro Inc

It has been fun but challenging to prepare for this discussion. There are so many wonderful aspects of the knowledge economy (flexibility, challenging work, increased value of human capital). Yet we are living the disruption of the transition from the industrial to the knowledge era and many aspects of the shift are not pretty.

Other panels are about innovation, job creation, globalization, compensation (Vanguard founder John Bogle is leading that one), financial behavior and governance.

I’ll be sure to share what I hear via Twitter and this blog.

If you happen to be in New York on April 22 or 23, let me know!