
Seminar Series
2024-2025 Seminar Series

Mark DesJardine (Tuck)
Friday, February 7: Windows of Opportunity: How Shareholder Activists Capitalize on Periods of Disruptive Organizational Change

Emilio Castilla (MIT)
Friday, February 21: The Unfulfilled Promise of Meritocracy in Organizations

Ramana Nanda (Imperial)
Friday, March 7: TBD

Michael Parke (Wharton)
Friday, March 21: Putting Feelings into Words: How Voicer Affect Labeling Influences Voice Endorsement

Cydney Dupree (UCL)
Friday, April 4: TBD

Sameer Srivastava (Haas)
Tuesday, April 18: From Contestation to Camaraderie: Structural Similarity Dampens Derogatory Discourse in Polarized Social Groups

Chris Rider (Michigan Ross)
Tuesday, April 25: Network Position and Performance: Merit or Privilege?
2023-2024 Seminar Series

Hong Luo (Harvard Business School)
Friday, December 1: Product liability litigation and medical device innovation

Yuan Shi (Cornell University)
Friday, December 8: The new argonauts: the international migration of venture-backed companies

Carolyn Stein (Berkeley Haas)
Friday, January 26: The Wandering Scholars: Understanding the Heterogeneity of University Commercialization

Njoke Thomas (Boston College)
Friday, March 29: Two sides of the same coin? Unpacking the mutually reinforcing relationship between performance and care in the workplace

Michele Lamont (Harvard University)
Friday, April 5: Seeing Others: How Recognition Works and How it Can Heal a Divided World (based on 2023 book of the same title).

Michel Anteby (Boston University)
Friday, April 12: Why what resists is often revealing (Based on a forthcoming book)

Andrew Carton (Wharton)
Friday, April 19: A Balancing Act: Why Efforts to Improve Work-Life Balance Backfires for East Asian Employees

Colleen Cunningham (The University of Utah)
Friday, May 3: The limits of user innovation: MD inventors and potential substitute invention.

Nir Halevy (Stanford University)
Friday, May 10: Cooperation Liberates: Putting the "Us" in Autonomous

Daniel Effron (London Business School)
(Co-hosted with the NYU Stern Business and Society Program)
Thursday, May 16: The Moral Psychology of Misinformation
2022-2023 Seminar Series

Tiona Zuzul
Friday, October 7: Building Support for Transformation: Outcome and Process Frames at the Federal Bureau of Investigation








2021-2022 Seminar Series









2020-2021 Seminar Series

Jay Barney (University of Utah, David Eccles School of Business)
October 2, 2020- “Why Resource-based Theory’s Model of Profit Appropriation Must Adopt a Stakeholder Perspective.”

Maryam Kouchaki (Kellogg School of Management)
October 16, 2020- "Morality at Work: Understanding the Persistence of Unethical Behavior in Organizations"

Alberto Galasso (University of Toronto)
October 23, 2020

John Joseph (University of California Irvine’s Paul Merage School of Business)
November 6, 2020- "Capacity with Comprehension: Information Processing, Mutual Understanding, and Organization Design in Healthcare."

Mary Benner (Carlson School of Management)
February 5, 2021 - "The Influence of Securities Analysts on Innovation: An Evolutionary Approach"

Derek Harmon (University of Michigan Ross School of Business)
March 5, 2021- "The Epidemiology of Organizational Misconduct: Evidence from the Chicago Police Department"

Jill Perry-Smith (Emory University Goizueta Business School)
March 12, 2021- "Who Are You Going to Call?" Network Activation in Creative Idea Generation and Elaboration

Colleen Stuart (Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School)
March 26, 2021- "External stakeholders and career attainment: Gender differences in tasks and promotion time of patent examiners"

Sean Martin (UVA Darden School of Business)
April 16, 2021- "Class Transitioners and Employee Voice in White Collar Work"
2019-2020 Seminar Series

Felix Danbold (NYU Stern)
September 6, 2019 - "Who Gets to Represent Us? Understanding Dominant Groups’ Reactions To Diversity"

Siyu Yu (NYU Stern)
September 13, 2019 - "On Navigating Informal Organizational Structures: Implications for Social Networks, Performance, and Status Attainment"

Ethan Burris (UT Austin)
September 20, 2019 - "Mixed Messages: Why managers (do not) endorse employee voice"

Tina Wu (NYU Stern)
October 4, 2019 - “A Home Here in the Office”: Managerial Emotional Labor as A Form of Organizational Control


Eden King (Rice University)
February 21, 2020 - “The ‘Opt Out’ Explanation is Insufficient: Subtle Messages Push Moms Out of Work”