The recipe for career success used to be clear: get into the best college you can, study something practical, take a job with a name-brand corporation, work your way up the career ladder, and retire to Boca with a company pension and health plan.

But with the corporate world dis-integrating, careers turned into jobs and now jobs are turning into gigs. What are the opportunities and hazards for leaders in this new world of work? Does everyone have to learn Python and SQL, or can you get by on great soft skills?
This talk has all the answers.

Jerry Davis is the Associate Dean for Business+Impact at Michigan Ross, Gilbert and Ruth Whitaker Professor of Business Administration, and Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. He received his PhD from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. He has published widely in management, sociology, and finance.

Davis’s research is broadly concerned with the effects of finance on society. Recent writings examine how ideas about corporate social responsibility have evolved to meet changes in the structures and geographic footprint of multinational corporations; whether "shareholder capitalism" is still a viable model for economic development; how income inequality in an economy is related to corporate size and structure; why theories about organizations do (or do not) progress; how architecture shapes social networks and innovation in organizations; why stock markets spread to some countries and not others; and whether there exist viable organizational alternatives to shareholder-owned corporations in the United States.

The Barger Leadership Institute (BLI) is a student-powered, faculty-guided community dedicated to developing student leadership learning and practice. The BLI Speaker Series offers an opportunity to explore the rich body of research about engaged leadership and to hear from faculty, organizational leaders and alumni who have worked to develop their own leadership capacity.

Open to the public, free of charge, light snacks