Welcome to the MIT Sloan Organization Studies Group’s (“OSG”) Fall 2012 seminar series.
All seminars will be held in E62-350 from 11:30 to 1:00 p.m. on Thursdays. Lunch will be provided at 11:30 A.M. If they become available, abstracts or papers for the seminars will be posted below.
| Fall 2012 | |
|---|---|
| Date | Speaker |
| Sep 20 | Henrik Bresman, Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, INSEAD The Limits of Hierarchy: When Upward Lobbying Can Hurt Inter-Group Knowledge Acquisition in Organizations |
| October 4 | Brian Rubineau, Assistant Professor, Cornell University, ILR School
Taken or Granted? Social Capital, Narcissism, and Agency |
| October 11 | Laura Kray, Professor, Warren E. and Carol Spieker Chair in Leadership, UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business
A Cost of High Trust: Opportunistic (and Disproportionate) Deceit Toward Female Negotiators |
| October 18 | Ken Frank, Professor in Measurement and Quantitative Methods, Michigan State University
Broker Networks as a Market Valve: Network Dynamics Associated with Sell Pressure Faced by Trading Partners in Upstairs Stock Markets |
| November 1 | Carol Heimer, Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Institutionalized Skepticism and the Construction of Trustworthiness |
| November 8 | Francesca Gino, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Breaking Them In or Revealing Their Best? Reframing Socialization Around Newcomer Self Expression |
| November 29 | Beth Bechky, Associate Professor of Management, UC Davis, Graduate School of Management
DNA Envy, Objectivity, and the Legitimacy of Forensic Science Work |
| December 6 | Maja Tampe, PhD Candidate, MIT Sloan School of Management
Creating Development through the Market? Prospects for Fairtrade Certification in Ghana |
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