Colloquium Fall 2011

Welcome to the MIT Sloan Organization Studies Group's (“OSG”) Fall 2011 seminar series.

Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will be held in E62-350 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 2011
Date Speaker/Affiliation/Seminar Title
Sep 9 Katherine DeCelles - Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto.
Affective Alignment and Social Change
Sep 16 OSG Community Meeting
Sep 23 No OSG Seminar (Team Day)
Sep 30 No OSG Seminar
Oct 7 Heidi K. Gardner - Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School
Performance pressure as a double-edged sword: Explaining the upside and downside effects on team process and performance
Oct 13 Stephen Barley - Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University.
The Lure of the Virtual
(Please note: this is a THURSDAY seminar)
Oct 21 David Harrison - McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin
Different Differences: Making (Further) Sense of the Diversity Narrative in Organizations
Oct 28 Stella Kounelaki - Organization Studies Group, MIT PhD candidate
Nov 4 Anita Woolley - Professor of Organizational Behavior & Theory, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon.
Playing Offense vs. Defense: The Effects of Team Strategic Orientation on Team Process
Nov 11 No OSG Seminar (Veterans Day)
Nov 18 Joëlle Evans, Organization Studies Group, MIT PhD candidate
Nov 25 No OSG Seminar (Thanksgiving)
Dec 2 Martine Haas - Associate Professor of Management, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Which Differences Matter Most?
A Person-Position Framework for Understanding Knowledge Seeking in Multinational Teams
Dec 9 Kate Kellogg - Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organization Studies Department, MIT Sloan School of Management

Traditionally, doctoral students and faculty meet individually and/or in small groups before and after the seminar. Please e-mail Mabel Abraham 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 Mabel Abraham (Mabel Abraham)

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