Speakers:
William Buster
Greg Nini (Finance)
Dennis Culhane (Social Policy and Practice)
Steven Hahn (History)
Witold Henisz (Management)

This event, hosted by the Wharton Politics and Business Association, will feature a speaker panel consisting of William Buster, a media spokesperson for the Occupy Wall Street Movement (who has appeared on the Charlie Rose Show alongside Paul Krugman and Marshall Ganz), as well as Penn professors from across departments, all of whom will be sharing their diverse opinions on the origins, implications, and future of the Occupy Wall Street movement. It will be a unique opportunity for students to hear in a collective setting both the perspective of someone who has been deeply involved firsthand with the protests, as well as the opinions of professors in departments from Finance to History. Audience members will be able to ask questions and engage in discussion about what is shaping to be a very significant social movement.

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There will be several board and committee positions available.

Thursday, October 21^st
6 pm
Huntsman Hall 250

Food will be provided by Greek Lady

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Monday, April 19th
JMHH F50
6-8pm

Dr. Deirdre LaPin is currently an Associate in the African Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania and a consultant for the private sector and international development agencies on best practice social policy and investment. During 2008-2009 she was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Smithsonian Institution researching the social history of the Niger Delta. Previously a Research Associate and Lecturer at the University of Ife, Nigeria, and has taught at Emory University, the University of Pennsylvania, and as tenured Associate Professor at the University of Arkansas. Subsequent to her academic career, Dr. LaPin joined UNICEF in 1984 as a senior official in Benin Republic and Somalia, where she initiated new strategies for health, water supply, and strategic planning. She later became manager of a worldwide project for the USAID Office of Health and Population. From 1997 she served a major company in the oil industry as a social investment manager, based for five years in the Niger Delta and two years in Oman, leading the design, staffing, implementation, and evaluation of sustainable community development programs.

Dr. Deirdre LaPin is currently an Associate in the African Studies Center at theUniversity of Pennsylvania and a consultant for the private sector and internationaldevelopment agencies on best practice social policy and investment. During 2008-2009she was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Smithsonian Institution researchingthe social history of the Niger Delta. Previously a Research Associate and Lecturer at theUniversity of Ife, Nigeria, and has taught at Emory University, the University ofPennsylvania, and as tenured Associate Professor at the University of Arkansas.Subsequent to her academic career, Dr. LaPin joined UNICEF in 1984 as a senior officialin Benin Republic and Somalia, where she initiated new strategies for health, watersupply, and strategic planning. She later became manager of a worldwide project for theUSAID Office of Health and Population. From 1997 she served a major company in theoil industry as a social investment manager, based for five years in the Niger Delta andtwo years in Oman, leading the design, staffing, implementation, and evaluation ofsustainable community development programs.

Biography

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We will be discussing plans for the rest of the year, speakers, and new opportunities.

Food and drinks will be provided by New Style Pizzeria.

WPBA Spring 2010 GBM Presentation

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Steve Strongin is currently the Managing Director and Head of Global Investment Research at Goldman Sachs‬. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1994 as Global Head of Commodities Research, then advanced to Chief Operating Officer and Interim Research Head in 2006. He finally took his current position in 2007.

Effective Regulation: Part 1 – Avoiding Another Meltdown [PDF, 499 KB]
Effective Regulation: Part 2 – Local Rules, Global Markets [PDF, 545 KB]
Effective Regulation: Part 3 – Helping Restore Transparency [PDF, 538 KB]

PowerPoint from the Event

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Michael Katz is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History and a Research Associate in the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Educated at Harvard, he has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a resident fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies (Princeton), the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; he also has held a fellowship from the Open Society Institute. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Education, National Academy of Social Insurance, and the Society of American Historians. In 1999, he received a Senior Scholar Award—a lifetime achievement award—from the Spencer Foundation. From 1989-1995, he served as archivist to the Social Science Research Council’s Committee for Research on the Urban Underclass and in 1992 was a member of the Task Force to Reduce Welfare Dependency appointed by the Governor of Pennsylvania. From 1991-1995, he was Chair of the History Department at the University of Pennsylvania; from 1983-1996 he directed or co-directed the University’s undergraduate Urban Studies Program; in 1994, he founded the graduate certificate program in Urban Studies, which he co-directs. He is a past-president of the History of Education Society and president-elect of the Urban History Association.

His work has focused on three major areas: the history of American education (The Irony of Early School Reform [1968, reprinted with a new introduction, 2001]; Class, Bureaucracy, and Schools: The Illusion of Educational Change in America [1971, expanded edition 1975]; Reconstructing American Education [1987]); the history of urban social structure and family organization (The People of Hamilton, Canada West: Family and Class in a Mid-Nineteenth Century City [1975, winner Albert C. Corey Prize, American and Canadian Historical Associations]; The Social Organization of Early Industrial Capitalism [1981]); and the history of social welfare and poverty (Poverty and Policy in American History [1983]; In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A Social History of Welfare in America [1986, expanded edition 1996]; The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare [1990, a finalist for the American Sociological Association's Distinguished Book Award]; The “Underclass” Debate: Views from History [1993]; andImproving Poor People: the Welfare State, the “Underclass,” and Urban Schools as History [1995]); with Christoph Sachsse, he has edited The Mixed Economy of Social Welfare: England, Germany, and the United States from the 1870s to the 1930s (1996). With Michelle Fine and Elaine Simon, he is author of the essay, “Poking Around: Outsiders View Chicago School Reform” – based on five years of periodic interviews and observations (Teachers College Record, Fall 1997). With Thomas Sugrue, he edited, W.E.B. Du Bois, Race, and the City: “The Philadelphia Negro” and Its Legacy (1998).

An updated version of his book, The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State (Metropolitan/Holt 2001; Owl Books, 2002) was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2008. His most recent book, written with Mark J. Stern, One Nation Divisible: What American Was and What It Is Becoming , was published by the Russell Sage Foundation in 2006; the paperback edition was released in 2008. Currently, he is working on immigration, with a focus on Philadelphia in the post-WWII period. He is a co-author of a report on immigration to Metropolitan Philadelphia to be published by the Brookings Institution in November 2008.

His research has been supported by the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Canada Council, Behavioral Science Research Institute at York University, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Education, National Endowment for the Humanities, Social Science Research Council, Rockefeller Foundation, Spencer Foundation, and the Research Foundation of the University of Pennsylvania.

Courses Taught at Penn

• HIST 214 Modern American Cities
• HIST 214 Immigrants, African Americans, and Cities in Twentieth-Century America
• HIST 463 The History of American Education
• HIST 580 American Social History
• HIST 608 Proseminar in Urban Studies
• HIST 610 Modern American Cities
• HIST 610 Immigration and Public Policy

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