Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences Grand Rounds
"Leadership and Crisis Management"
Alan E. Wiseman, M.A., Ph.D.
Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Political Economy
Professor of Political Science and Law
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Noon - 1 p.m.
MCN CCC-1111
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This grand round is designed for faculty, residents, staff and medical students.
Learning objectives of this presentation include the following:
- Challenge basic beliefs about the nature of a crisis
- Learn to scan management/business practices for reputational risks
- Sensitize audience members on need to integrate crisis management approach into overall management/business strategy
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Professor Wiseman is the Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Political Economy, Professor of Political Science and Law (by courtesy) at Vanderbilt University. He has research and teaching interests in American political institutions and positive political economy, focusing on legislative and electoral politics, regulation, bureaucratic politics, and business-government relations.
Before joining the Vanderbilt Faculty, Professor Wiseman taught at The Ohio State University, where he directed the undergraduate public policy minor in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. He has also taught at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, and served as a visiting economic scholar with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. His most recent book, Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress: The Lawmakers (co-authored with Craig Volden, Cambridge University Press, 2014) was the winner of the 2015 Fenno Prize and the 2015 Gladys M. Kammerer Award); and explores the ways in which individual members of Congress are most successful in advancing their legislative agendas. He is also the author of The Internet Economy: Access, Taxes, and Market Structure (Brookings Institution Press, 2001), and he has published research in journals including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, theJournal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly and the Journal of Theoretical Politics. He is the co-director of the Legislative Effectiveness Project: www.thelawmakers.org.