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Friends,

We are delighted to invite you to attend a webinar on Design Thinking for Scholars and register for the Second Annual Network of Leadership Scholars' Research/Practice Conference.

Webinar on Design Thinking for Scholars

The first in a series of webinars leading to the second annual NLS Research/Practice Conference will be held on June 20, 2012 at 1 PM Eastern Time (US). Click here to register for this free webinar. If the link is not visible, please cut and paste this link: http://nlswebinardtfs.eventbrite.com

This webinar is to introduce Design Thinking for Scholars to those participating in or intending to participate in the Network of Leadership Scholars' 2^nd Annual Research/Practice Conference on the topic Leadership in the Informal Economy: Addressing Challenges from the Field to be held on August 1-2 immediately prior to the Academy of Management Annual Meeting.

Design Thinking for Scholars is an ongoing effort to develop and test a framework for challenge-based research. This is being driven by the efforts of the Network of Leadership Scholars, a community of practice affiliated with the Academy of Management (AOM.) This project builds on an existing product/process that has a shown initial success and potential.

Please join us on June 20^th as we provide an overview of the draft Design Thinking for Scholars model.

Webinar details will be emailed to all those who register for this event at the link provided above.

Registration for the NLS Conference

Registration for the Second Annual Research/Practice Conference organized by the Network of Leadership Scholars is now open. The conference will be held at the Sheraton Boston Hotel (Liberty Ballroom A) on August 1^st (beginning at 3 PM) and August 2^nd (ending at 5 PM). Click here to register for the conference (there is a $55 registration fee). If the link is not visible, please cut and paste this link: http://nls2012.eventbrite.com/

Conference Theme for 2012

The theme for this year's conference is Leadership in the Informal Economy. Consistent with this theme, we focus on informal leadership at the lower rungs of the socio-economic strata. We explore how leadership that emerges from within the base of the economic pyramid (BoP) is associated with successful (or unsuccessful) outcomes of poverty alleviation programs (e.g., microcredit, microenterprise formation, health awareness, education and training, and sanitation). Drawing from stories and information provided by practitioners and research findings from scholars, participants will be challenged to work together to develop frameworks for informal (emergent) leadership in the context of poverty alleviation initiatives. Our goal is to generate a set of knowledge products that will help practitioners and scholars in researching and designing meaningful interventions to improve the success rate of such initiatives. In the process, we will also inform understanding of informal (emergent) leadership.

For more information on the webinar and the conference, please visit the Network of Leadership Scholars' web site at: http://nls.aomonline.org/

Hope to see many of you in Boston,

Best wishes,

--Nagaraj

On behalf of the NLS Conference Organizing Committee:

Krzysztof Dembek, Monash University (kdembek@gmail.com)

Laura Erskine, Illinois State University (laura.erskine@gmail.com)

Surinder Kahai, Binghamton University (kahai@binghamton.edu)

Drew Marshall, Primed Associates (drew@thinkprimed.com)

Mary Uhl-Bien, University of Nebraska (mbien2@unl.edu)

Nagaraj Sivasubramaniam, Duquesne University (sivasubr@duq.edu)

Nagaraj Sivasubramaniam

Associate Professor of Leadership

Department of Management

Palumbo-Donahue Schools of Business

Duquesne University

600 Forbes Ave.

Pittsburgh, PA 15282

http://mba.sustainability.duq.edu/