Overview
Join us for the Annual Milton R. Konvitz Memorial Lecture, featuring Rakesh Khurana, Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development and Unit Head of Organizational Behavior at Harvard Business School. Khurana will deliver a lecture titled “From Institutional Mission to Administrative Means: The Bureaucratization of Universities.”
Khurana's research focuses on leadership, organizational behavior, institutional development and the ways authority and legitimacy are constructed within modern institutions.
Join us in person or online via Zoom. Registration is required, and event details will be emailed.
The Konvitz Lecture is made possible through the generosity of Irwin Jacobs (BEE ’56) and Joan Jacobs (BS HE ’54).
Honored Speaker
About Milton Konvitz
Milton Konvitz was a founding faculty member in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations and taught from 1946 until his retirement in 1973. He was also a professor in Cornell's Law School and was widely considered an authority on constitutional and labor law, and civil and human rights. Konvitz is perhaps best known for his American Ideals course, which he taught to more than 8,000 Cornell students over the course of his career, never giving the same lecture twice. "I saw the U.S. Constitution as it has been interpreted as a magnificent depository of our ideals, both individual and social," he said. His course exposed students to the great intellectual thinkers and philosophers throughout history whose writings had shaped those ideals. One student he influenced was U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Cornell Class of 1954, who considered him a mentor – some of their later correspondence is in our library’s archives.