Hello!
Just a quick reminder that the virtual seminar series of the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS) will be hosting Aline Gatignon (HEC Paris) today on Nov 7. She will present "They don't Really Care About Us: How Public Policies Can Unlock Growth in Disadvantaged Communities". The format will include a 20-minute presentation, followed by 10 mins of Q&A and an additional 30 mins of informal discussion with the speaker-a valuable opportunity for PhD students and junior faculty to connect and engage. Please find the abstract below:
By offering a promising solution to violence in urban slums, community-based policing is often expected to help unlock socioeconomic development. The prevailing assumption is that reducing gang activity and restoring the rule of law should lower barriers to formal organizational and economic activity. We test this hypothesis by examining Rio de Janeiro's Pacifying Police Units (UPPs) program, a large-scale public intervention aimed at improving security in favelas through community-based policing. While the program reduced violent crime, treated favelas experienced significantly weaker organizational and economic growth, with smaller increases in the number of formal organizations and jobs, driven by a decline in private sector firms. Qualitative evidence suggests that the displacement of local gangs, coupled with the lack of concurrent investment in formal institutions, created a climate of precarity and uncertainty inauspicious to organizational development. These findings highlight how interventions that enhance security but fail to strengthen institutional and economic scaffolding may inadvertently inhibit the emergence of sustainable formal organizations in contexts of deep informality.
Please register for the seminar on the ARCS website or directly here.
Here is the list of the remaining speakers and dates for this year (11am-12pm EST):
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Natalia Lyly (awardee, LUT University) – Jan 9
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Shaz Ansari (Cambridge) – Feb 6
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Fabrizio Ferraro (IESE) – Mar 6
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Joao Albino-Pimentel (USC) – April 3
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Ben Lewis (BYU) - May 1
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Hope to see you there!
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Best regards,
Olga Hawn, PhD
Associate Professor, Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Sustainability Distinguished Fellow
Faculty Director, Ackerman Center for Excellence in Sustainability
UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
Associate Editor, Strategic Management Journal
Associate Editor, Management Science
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