Colloquium

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

Spring 2009
Date	Speaker/Affiliation/Seminar Title
Feb 6	OSG Community Mtng (for OSG faculty, students, and affiliates)
Feb 13	No meeting
Feb 20	No meeting
Feb 27	Denise Lewin Loyd, MIT Sloan Elaborating more with the out-group: The role of relationship focus and opinion diversity
Mar 6	Stella Kounelaki and Kate Parrot, MIT Sloan Role-Set Expansion and Permeability in Professions: Two Case Studies, A Developmental Perspective on Empathy in Relationship Transformation: The Public Conversations Project Abortion Dialogues
Mar 13	John Carroll, MIT Sloan; J. Bradley Morrison, Brandeis University, International Business School; and Jenny Rudolph, Harvard Medical School The Dynamics of Action-Oriented Problem Solving: Linking Interpretation and Choice
Mar 20	Petra Klumb, University of Fribourg The Daily Lives of Dual-Career Couples: A Measurement-Burst Approach
Mar 27	No meeting (Spring Break)
Apr 3	Damon Centola, MIT Sloan Diffusion in Social Networks: New Theory and Experiments
Apr 7	Corinne Bendersky, UCLA Anderson School of Management Status Conflict in Groups *Note: this seminar is being offered jointly with the IWER group; it will occur on TUES from 1:00-2:30 p.m. in the Forrester Room (E52-598).
Apr 10	Joe Magee, NYU Wagner School of Public Service Power Differences in the Construal of Crises: The Immediate Aftermaths of September 11, 2001 and Hurricane Katrina
Apr 17	Robert Cialdini, Arizona State University Note: this seminar will occur from 2:00-3:30 p.m. The Power of Social versus Financial Factors in Behavior Change*
Apr 24	Jennifer Lerner, Harvard Kennedy School of Government What the Face Reveals in Stressful Situations
May 1	Frank Flynn, Stanford Graduate School of Business Guilt is Good: Guilt-Proneness as a Source of Motivation, Performance, and Commitment
May 8	Barbara Bigelow and Margarete Arndt, Clark Graduate School of Management Evidence-Based Management in Health Care Organizations. A Cautionary Note

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 Jared Curhan (Jared Curhan)

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