IWER RESEARCH SEMINAR, 15.691

Seminars are held Tuesdays 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. in Bldg. E62-350. Lunch will be held before the seminar, from 12:30 - 1:00 p.m.

Spring 2011

Date Speaker
Feb 1 Charles Heckscher, Rutgers
Solidarities (but not forever)
Feb 8 Michael Piore, MIT
DARPA, ARPA-E and the NSF: Street Level Bureaucracy And Radical Innovation In Federally Funded R And D
Feb 15 Peter Capelli, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania
What Do Performance Appraisals Do?
Feb 22 Holiday, No Seminar
Mar 1 Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Relational Inequality: A Model for Within Workplace Earnings Variation with an Application to Swedish Immigration
Mar 8 Ryan Hammond, IWER
Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho Off to Work We Go: Social Movements, Human Capital, and the Construction of Occupational Community in an Emerging Field
Mar 15 Craig Olson, University of Illinois
CEO Pay And Firm Performance: The Role of CEO-Firm Match Quality
Mar 22 Holiday, No Seminar
Mar 29 Natasha Iskander, NYU
The Transformers: Mexican Immigrants and the Development of Tacit Knowledge
Apr 5 Frank Levy, MIT
Medical Imaging, Cost Control and Stein’s Law
Apr 12 Michael Pratt, Boston College
Orienting Toward Work: On Why and How We Answer, ‘What Makes Work Worth Doing?’
Apr 19 Holiday, No Seminar
Apr 26 Leslie Salzinger, Boston College
Beneath the Model: From “Developing Nation” To “Emerging Market,” Deal By Deal
May 3 John-Paul Ferguson, Stanford
Organizational Diversity and Collective Action
May 10 Gretchen Purser, Syracuse
TBD

All are welcome to attend any of the seminars. Please contact Megan Wilkins, send an e-mail to be added to our mailing list.

Past IWER Seminar Schedules

Professor Paul Osterman

Professor Paul Osterman, codirector of IWER, is coauthor of “Working in America — A Blueprint for the New Labor Market,” a book which aims to initiate a national debate over the deep-rooted problems facing the labor markets.
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