The Nancy L. Schwartz Memorial Lecture is a series of public lectures held every year by the Kellogg Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences of Northwestern University.
[1][2][3] Nancy Lou Schwartz was the Morrison Professor of Decision Sciences.
She was also the Kellogg School's first female faculty member appointed to an endowed chair.
Schwartz became a part of Kellogg in 1970, chaired MEDS as well as served as director of the school's doctoral program until her death in 1981.
[1] To date, sixteen out of the thirty-four speakers held or have gone on to win a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.