IE-Brown Executive MBA, with a Conscience: Professor Roundtable - USA & Canada

The IE-Brown Executive MBA takes the best from two powerful institutions, to create one unique experience that goes beyond the boundaries of traditional business education. This “MBA with a conscience” provides a platform for reflective leaders to be more global in their outlook, more innovative in their thinking and more informed in their decision-making. 

Join us for an exclusive roundtable discussion with two of the IE-Brown Executive MBA’s most respected and highly rated professors. After a brief introduction by the program directors, we will be discussing their experiences teaching in the program, its unique methodology, and their perspective on the students/alumni. We’ll end the session with an open Q&A.  

ABOUT OUR SPECIAL GUESTS

GAYLE ALLARD has been a professor of Managerial Economics for IE Business School since 2001. She studied at the University of California, Davis (Ph.D. in Economics), Johns Hopkins University (Master’s in International Affairs) and the Monterey Institute of International Studies (Spanish language and literature). Her research has centered on labor markets, in particular the position of youth and immigrants in Europe and how labor-market rigidities affect unemployment. More recently she has moved into development issues, particularly in Africa and in relation to China. Gayle appears regularly in leading international media as a commentator on today’s key economic problems. 

Gayle has taught a course on Coursera (Understanding Economic Policymaking) to about 30,000 students, and has authored numerous interactive exercises and games, along with an e-textbook on macroeconomic policymaking. 

MEGHAN ELIZABETH KALLMAN is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School for Global Inclusion and Social Development at UMASS Boston. She earned her PhD in Sociology in 2016 from Brown University and holds additional degrees from the University of Chicago and Smith College. She is the recipient of two prestigious National Science Foundation grants, as well as grants from the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy, the Cogut Center, and others. 

Her work uses organizational theory to make sense of social change—her current project uses a case study of the US Peace Corps to understand how organizations shape the politics of their intrinsically motivated participants. Dr. Kallman also works on network theory and social movements. Her most recent book, called “The Third Sector”, was published in 2016 by the University of Illinois Press. Her second book, “The Death of Idealism”, is in preparation and will be published next year. She was a 2015-2016 fellow with the Women’s Policy Institute of Rhode Island and is a sitting city councilor in Pawtucket, RI.