Colloquium Fall 2009

Welcome to the MIT Sloan Organization Studies Group's (“OSG”) fall 2009 seminar series.

Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will be held in E52-598 (Forrester Room) from Noon to 1:30 p.m. on Fridays. Lunch will be provided at 11:45 a.m. As they become available, abstracts or papers for the seminars will be posted below.

Fall 2009
Date	Speaker/Affiliation/Seminar Title
Sep 11	OSG Community Mtng (for OSG faculty, students, and affiliates)
Sep 18	Roberto Weber, Carnegie Mellon University Coordination, Communication and Institutions
Sep 25	No meeting (team day)
Oct 2	Ray Reagans, MIT Sloan Do you two know each other? Presumed homophily and the need for (network) closure.
Oct 9	No Meeting
Oct 16	Jason Greenberg, Harvard University / Northeastern University Lifeblook or Liability? Schumpeter, Stinchombe, and the Double-edged Sword of Strangers or Strong ties in the Startup Process
Oct 23	No Meeting
Oct 30	Emily Heaphy, Boston University Rules as Tools in Patient Advocates' Problem Handling Work
Nov 6	Christine Beckman, University of California Irvine Escape to Reality: Organizational Control and the Internet in a Total Institution
Nov 13	Roberto Fernandez, MIT Sloan Creating the Connection: Networks, Race and Poverty at the Hiring Interface
Nov 20	Leslie Perlow, Harvard Business School Experimenting with Predictable Time Off in a 24/7 World
Nov 27	No meeting (Thanksgiving)
Dec 4	Jody Hoffer Gittell, Brandeis Modularity and the Coordination of Complex Work: The Case of Post-Surgical Patient Care

Traditionally, doctoral students and faculty meet individually and/or in small groups before and after the seminar. Please e-mail Valarie Kniss if you would like to arrange such meetings (please note the dates and times in which you're interested).

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Questions or comments
E-mail: John Carroll (John Carroll) or Ashley Brown (Ashley Brown)

Useful Links
MIT Sloan School of Management
Organization Studies Group (OSG)
Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER)
MIT-Harvard Economic Sociology

Past OSG Seminar Schedules