Colloquium Spring 2010

Welcome to the MIT Sloan Organization Studies Group's (“OSG”) spring 2010 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 2010
Date	Speaker/Affiliation/Seminar Title
Feb 5	Michel Anteby, Harvard Business School Markets, Morals, and Practices of Trade
Feb 12	No meeting
Feb 19	Rakesh Khurana, Harvard Business School Economics in Elite Business Schools: Micro-institutional processes at the Ford Foundation and the dominance of economists and economic thought in business schools
Feb 26	OSG Community Mtg (for OSG faculty, students, and affiliates)
Mar 5	No meeting
Mar 12	Cancelled: Rick Gilkey, Emory University
Mar 19	Michele Gelfand, University of Maryland Culture as Constraints and Affordances: A Multilevel Analysis of Situational Constraint across 35 Nations
Mar 26	No meeting (Spring Break)
Apr 2	Scott DeRue, University of Michigan Who will lead and who will follow? A social process of leadership identity construction in organizations
Apr 9	Ashley Brown, MIT Sloan Polarized by palpitation: How physiological arousal and construal of negotiation interact to predict subjective outcomes
Apr 16	Robert Livingston, Northwestern University Empowering the wolf in sheep’s clothing: Why do people choose the wrong leaders?
Apr 23	Gary Fine, Northwestern University The Native in the Garden: Floral Politics and Cultural Entrepreneurs
Apr 30	Elisabeth Kelan, King’s College London The Binary Logic and Performing Gender at Work
May 7	Steve Maguire, McGill University Theorizing Risk and Organization
May 18	Sheena Iyengar, Columbia University The Art of Choosing

Traditionally, doctoral students and faculty meet individually and/or in small groups before and after the seminar. Please e-mail Ashley Brown 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