Management of Organizations

Fall 2009 Seminar Schedule

PHDBA 259S, MORS Colloquium, Professors Cameron Anderson and Phil Tetlock
Cheit 330, Wednesdays 4-5:30pm unless otherwise noted

This seminar is open to the public.

For more information, contact the MORS group.

Sept 2		Atul Teckchandani MORS Graduate Student Paper title: Do bankers buy local? Examining how commercial banks affect employment growth.
Sept 9		Sebastien Brion MORS Graduate Student Paper title: How power is lost: Illusions of value among the powerful.
Sept 16		Gavin Kilduff MORS Graduate Student Paper title: The Psychology of Rivalry: A Relationally-dependent Analysis of Competition.
Sept 23		Special Seminar Event Phil Tetlock and Cameron Anderson host group discussion on contemporary Management of Organization topics with interactive group participation.
Sept 30		Aiwa Shirako MORS Graduate Student Paper title: Power to the powerless: Interpersonal influence through emotional appeals
Oct 7		Stanislav Dobrev Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior INSEAD Paper title: Legitimacy Vacuum, Structural Imprinting, and the First-Mover Disadvantage
Oct 14		Will Fleeson Associate Professor of Psychology, Wake Forest University Paper title: Density Distributions: An Account of Personality Traits that Incorporates the Resolution to the Person-Situation Debate and that Describes the Function of Traits.
Oct 21		Gerard Saucier Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Oregon Paper title:Patterns of Thinking in Sociopolitical Violence: Militant Extremism and Beyond
Oct 28		Rob MacCoun Gioldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley Paper title: Allocating the Burden of Social Proof: Shared Thresholds and Social Influence
Nov 18		Ernesto Dal Bó Associate Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, BPP Paper title: Do the right thing: the effects of moral suasion on cooperation. [Date switch with Nelson made on 10-14-09.]
Nov 11		Robert H. Frank Professor, The Johnson School, Cornell University Paper title: "The Libertarian Welfare State"
Nov 4		Leif Nelson Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, Marketing Paper title: Restructured Consumption: Disruption, Anticipation, and Adaptation in Hedonic Experience [Date switch with Dal Bó made on 10-14-09.]
Nov 25		No Seminar Thanksgiving Holiday
Dec 2		Laura Kray Professor, MORS, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Dec 9		Speaker to TBD Paper title: TBD as of 9-4-09

Spring 2009 Seminar Schedule

PHDBA 259S, OBIR Colloquium, Professor Jennifer Chatman
Cheit 330, Wednesdays 4-5:30pm unless otherwise noted

This seminar is open to the public.

For more information, contact the group.

Jan 14		Olav Sorenson Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto [] Paper title: Home sweet home: Social capital and location choice*
Jan 16		Lauren Rivera, graduate student in Sociology Department of Sociology, Harvard University [] Paper title: Cultural Reproduction in the Labor Market: Homophily in Job Interviews*
Jan 20		Chen-Bo Zhong Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto [] Paper title: Metaphors of the Mind: How Sins Feel Dirty and Loneliness Feels Cold*
Jan 21		Xi "Canny" Zou, graduate student in Organizational Behavior Columbia University [] Paper title: Constructing and Using Social Networks: A Regulatory Focus Perspective*
Jan 28		Christine Beckman, OBIR visiting scholar [] The Paul Merage School of Business, UC Irvine [] Paper title: Who’s in First? Social Aspirations and Organizational Change
Feb 4		Eric Uhlmann, post-doctoral research associate The Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Paper title: Constructed Criteria: Redefining Merit to Justify Discrimination
Feb 11		Adam Galinsky, OBIR visiting scholar The Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University [] Paper title: Lacking Power and Control: Impaired Executive Function, Compensatory Consumption, and Illusory Pattern Perception*
Feb 25		Don Moore, OBIR visiting scholar Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University [] Paper title: Correspondence Bias in Performance Evaluation: Why Grade Inflation Works*
March 11		Daniel Ames Columbia University [] Paper title: In Search of the Right Touch: Interpersonal Assertiveness in Organizational Life*
March 18		Jennifer Chatman Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley [*]
Apr 1		Fiona Kun Yao, OBIR doctoral student Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley Paper title: The Geography of Stock Backdating
Apr 8		Atul Teckchandani & Emily Choi, OBIR doctoral students Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley Paper title: Fitting in and making friends? Linking categorical fit and partnership formation Paper title: The Societal Effect of Organizational Populations Interacting in Geographical Space
Apr 15		Michael Norton Harvard Business School
Apr 22		Sebastien Brion & Aiwa Shirako, OBIR doctoral students Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Apr 29		Sim Sitkins Duke University / Stanford University
May 6		Mary Kate Stimmler & Will Self, OBIR doctoral students Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

Fall 2008 Seminar Schedule

Aug 27		Social gathering to welcome new OBIR faculty and PhD students
Sep 3		Doug Guthrie The Stern School of Business, New York University
Sep 10		Gavin Kilduff, OBIR doctoral student Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Sep 17		Christine Beckman, OBIR visiting scholar The Paul Merage School of Business, UC Irvine
Sep 24		Nancy Rothbard The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Oct 1		Nick Epley Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago
Oct 8		Adam Galinsky, OBIR visiting scholar From the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Oct 15		Cecilia Ridgeway Department of Sociology, Stanford University
Oct 22		Nydia MacGregor, OBIR doctoral student Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Oct 29		Robb Willer Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley
Nov 5		Violina Rindova The McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin
Nov 12		Teresa Amabile Harvard Business School
Nov 19		Caneel Joyce, OBIR doctoral student Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
Dec 10		Modupe Akinola, Organizational Behavior doctoral student Harvard Business School [*]
Dec 15		Edward Mi Feng, Organizational Behavior doctoral student Stanford Graduate School of Business
Dec 16		Greta Hsu Graduate School of Management, UC Davis [*]
Dec 17		Klaus Weber Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University [*]