Management of Organizations

Spring 2013 Seminar Schedule

PHDBA 259S-1, MORS Colloquium, Professor Sameer Srivastava
Cheit 325, Tuesdays from 12:30-2:00pm *unless otherwise noted

This seminar is open to the public.

For more information, contact the MORS group.

Feb 5		John-Paul Ferguson Graduate School of Business, Stanford University ”Bureaucracy and Employment Segregation: Evidence from Union-Representation Elections” [PDF]
Feb 12		Oliver John Dept. of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley "The Big Five Paradigm Shift: Origin and Development, Contexts and Consequences."
Feb 19		Gina Dokko Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis “Learning to Let Go: Social Influence, Learning, and the Abandonment of Corporate Venture Capital Practices.” [PDF]
Feb 26		Wesley David Sine Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University “Manu Militari: New Venture Ties to Coercive Institutions in Emerging Economies.” [PDF]
Feb 27*		M. Ehsan Hoque Massachusetts Institute of Technology "You’re Hired! When Emotion Enables New Interaction Possibilities." C325 from 4-5:30pm
Mar 5		Sandra Smith Dept. of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley "Why Blue-Collar Blacks Help Less." [PDF]
Mar 12		Tiziana Casciaro Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto "Affective Primacy in Intraorganizational Task Networks." [PDF]
Mar 19		Ithai Stern Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University "Unmixed Signals: How Reputation and Status Affect Alliance Formation." [PDF]
Mar 26		Spring Break - No Colloquium
Apr 2		Amir Goldberg Graduate School of Business, Stanford University "Social Boundedness as Market Identity: Evidence from the Film Industry." [PDF]
Apr 9		Emily Balcetis Dept. of Psychology, New York University "Seeing Through Hearts and Minds..."
Apr 16		Kevin Ochsner Dept. of Psychology, Columbia University "Unpacking the Mechanism of Empathy and Person Perception."
Apr 23		Thomas Gilovich Dept. of Psychology, Cornell University "We'll Always Have Paris: The Hedonic Return on Material and Experiential Purchases?" [PDF]
Apr 30		No Colloquium
May 7		Angus Hildreth MORS PhD Student “Powerful Groups: Functional Utopia or Dysfunctional Cacotopia?” & Alex Van Zant MORS PhD Student “The Voice of Certainty: Vocal Cues as Strategic Signals of Certainty.”
May 14		Eliot Sherman MORS PhD Student “National Diversity Under Pressure: Group Composition and Expedition Success in Himalayan Mountaineering.” [PDF]