Colloquium Archive Spring 2007

Welcome to the MIT Sloan Organization Studies Group's (“OSG”) spring 2007 seminar series.

Unless otherwise noted, all seminars will be held in E52-598 (Forrester Room) from 1:00–2:30 p.m. on Fridays. As they become available, abstracts or papers for the seminars will be posted below.

SPRING 2007
Date	Speaker/Affiliation/Seminar Title
Feb 9	Roberto Fernandez, MIT Job Queues: Gender and Race at the Application Interface
Feb 23	Christopher Winship, Harvard Sociology Between Two Rationalities: The Emergence of a Boston Police-Ministerial Partnership (PDF)
Mar 9	Sam Sommers, Tufts University Beyond Information Exchange: Effects of Racial Diversity on Group Performance and Individual Cognition (PDF)
Mar 16	Jean Bartunek, Boston College The development of a process model of collective turnover
Mar 30	No Seminar, Spring Break
Apr 6	TBA
Apr 13	Jeffrey Keisler, Univ. of Massachusetts Boston Language, Interpolation and Collaborative Decision Making (PDF)
Apr 20	Steve Barley, Stanford WTO Corporations, Democracy, and the Public Good
Apr 27	Ryon Lancaster, Chicago University Monks, Lawyers, and All the King's Men: Formal Office and the Emergence of Bureaucratic Careers in the Medieval English Church. (PDF)
May 4	Teresa Amabile, Harvard Business School The Psychology of Everyday Work Life (PDF)
May 11	Cal Morill, University of California Irvine
May 18	Rick Fantasia, Smith College Sociology
May 25	Jane Dutton, University of Michigan Snapshots of Compassion at Work (PDF)

Past OSG Seminar Schedules