The HBS International Seminar brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to talk about research on international business. Participants include faculty and graduate students from Harvard Business School, but all Weatherhead Center affiliates and other members of the community are welcome to attend. The seminar meets seven to ten times each semester, usually on Thursdays from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. In 2008–2009, guest speakers included Lakshmi Iyer, Fabrizio Ferri, and Ramana Nanda of Harvard Business School; Carsten Burhop of Yale University; Myles Shaver of the University of Minnesota; Caroline Fohlin of the Johns Hopkins University; and Elena Obukhova of MIT. Speakers for 2007–2008 focused on international political economy, global strategy, and comparative corporate governance.