Colloquium Spring 2012

Welcome to the MIT Sloan Organization Studies Group’s (“OSG”) Spring 2012 seminar series.

All seminars will be held in E62-350 from Noon to 1:30 p.m. on Thursdays. Lunch will be provided at 12:00 p.m. If they become available, abstracts or papers for the seminars will be posted below.

Spring 2012
Date	Speaker
February 9	Barbara Lawrence, Professor of Human Resources and Organizational Behavior, UCLA Anderson School of Management Are We There Yet? The Effect of the Probability of Leaving on the Eventual Percent of Women in an Academic Department
February 16	Lotte Bailyn, Professor of Management and T. Wilson (1953) Professor of Management, emerita., MIT Sloan School of Management and John Van Maanen, Erwin H. Schell Professor of Management and Professor of Organization Studies, MIT Sloan School of Management OSG in Retrospect Professors Bailyn, Van Maanen, Gordon, and Kolb will reminisce about the old times.
February 23	Valerie Gauthier, Visiting Associate Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management From Relational to Sense leadership with Savoir-Relier (SR): leading in complexity
March 1	Adam Galinsky, Morris and Alice Kaplan Professor of Ethics and Decision in Management, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management The Power of Alternatives: How Counterfactual Thinking Creates Meaning, Perspective-Taking Manages Diversity, and Multicultural Experiences Produces Innovation
March 8	Community Meeting
March 15	Kate Parrot, PhD, MIT Sloan School of Management
April 5	Jim Detert, Associate Professor of Management and Organizations, Cornell University, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management Voice flows to and around leaders: Understanding when units are helped or hurt by employee voice
April 12	Gianpiero Petriglieri, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, INSEAD Fast tracks and inner journeys: Adaptive and exploratory identity work pathways towards portable selves for contemporary careers
April 19	Laurie Weingart, Carnegie Bosch Professor of Organizational Behavior and Theory; Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Teams, Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business Employee Conflict, Intensity, and Emotions in a Senior Living Facility
April 26	Susan Perkins, Visiting Assistant Professor of Organization Studies and Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management Fit to Lead? The Role of Female National Leaders in Modern Times
May 3	Brian Uzzi, Richard L. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University 1) Tracking Traders’ Understanding of the Market Using e-Communication Data 2) Synchronicity, instant messaging, and performance among financial traders
May 10	Julia DiBenigno, PhD, MIT Sloan School of Management Jurisdictional Faultlines: Demographic Alignment and Cross-Occupational Collaboration in Two Hospital Units
May 17	Community Meeting
May 24	Ronald Burt, Hobart W. Williams Professor of Sociology and Strategy, The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business Network-related personality and the agency question: multi-role evidence from a virtual world

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Past OSG Seminar Schedules