This conference is organized by Executive Masters at BI Norwegian School of Management.
Peder Inge Furseth is the Conference Director.
Furseth is an Associate Professor at the Department of Innovation and Economic Organisation at BI Norwegian School of Management. Furseth has successfully presented the annual Innovation and eBusiness conference in San Francisco since 1999. His focus of research is eBusiness in retailing and banking.
Trond Petersen – Berkeley’s co-sponsor of the program
Dr. Trond Petersen is a Professor at the Department of Sociology at UCB. He has previously held positions at the Haas School of Business and at Harvard University. Trond grew up in Oslo and completed his education there before going to graduate studies in the U.S. in 1982.
He does research in the areas of social inequality and quantitative methods. He has investigated the role of employer discrimination in creating inequality in wages, hiring, and promotions between men and women, as well as the role of family adaptations in this. Trond draws on large-scale quantitative data from the U.S. and Scandinavia, including quantitative data on large firms. Trond Petersen plays an important role for the realization of the program – particularly for the plenary speakers and for the program at UC Berkeley.
