BPS Seminars (Fall 2008)

BPS seminar's this semester include:

• Monday 11:30-13:00: TIE Strategy Seminar
• Tuesday 13:00-14:30: IWER Seminar
• Wednesday 15:30-17:00: MIT-Harvard Economic Sociology Seminar
• Friday 12:00-13:30 Organizational Studies

Unless otherwise noted, all sessions meet in E52-598 (the Forrester room).

TIE/Strategy

• September 29th (Classic session) Ramana Nanda
• October 6th (Strategy Seminar)
• October 20th (Lab Session) Ethan Mollick
• October 27th (Strategy Seminar) Scott Stern
• November 3rd (Lab Session) Sung Joo Bae and Chuck Eesley
• November 17th (Classic session) Alan MacCormack
• December 1st (Strategy Seminar) Nick Bloom
• December 15th (Classic session) Danny Breznitz

IWER

Information and papers can be found on the IWER seminar website.

• September 30: Charles Heckscher, Rutgers University (Collaborative Organization and the Quality of Health Care Delivery)
• October 7: Special Lunchtime Presentation: Arnold Zack and Lisa Lynch, Brandeis University (The Adoption and Diffusion of Organizational Innovation: Evidence for the US Economy)
• October 14: Peter Doeringer, Boston University (Garment District Performance: S(weatshop)-efficiency vs. I(innovation)- efficiency)
• October 21: Aparna Joshi, University of Illinois (Cat's in the Cradle: A Theory of Generations in the Workplace)
• October 28: Helen Hsi, MIT Sloan School of Management (TBA)
• November 4: Carola Frydman, MIT Sloan School of Management (Executive Compensation: A New View from a Long-Term Perspective, 1936-2005)
• November 18: John-Paul Ferguson, MIT Sloan School of Management (Space Invaders: Category Reconfiguration and Diversification in Union Organizing Drives 1961-1999)
• November 25: Ryan Hammond, MIT Sloan School of Management (Dolly's Dilemma: The Dynamics of Replicating Knowledge Intensive Projects at the IFC)
• December 2: Alan Benson, MIT Sloan School of Management (Employer Concentration and Staffing Strategies: The Case of Hospital Nurses)
• December 9: Special Lunchtime Presentation: Lynn Pyun, MIT, DUSP and Seth Pipkin, MIT Sloan School of Management (The ‘Institutional Switchmen’ of Industrial Upgrading: Observations From Apparel Manufacturing in Guatemala and Columbia)

Economic Sociology

More information on the ESS Seminar website.

• October 1st (Harvard location): Sim Sitkin, Duke
• October 8th (MIT location): Matt Jackson, Stanford
• October 15th (Harvard location): Lauren Rivera, Harvard
• October 22nd (MIT location): Cat Turco, Harvard
• October 29th (Harvard location): John-Paul Ferguson, MIT
• November 5th (MIT location): Elizabeth Pontikes, Chicago
• November 12th (Harvard location): Eva Boxenbaum, Copenhagen Business School
• November 19th (MIT location): Yanbo Wang, MIT
• December 3rd (Harvard location): Jason Greenberg, MIT
• December 10th (MIT location): Greta Hsu, UC Davis

Organizational Studies

More information is on the OSG Colloqium website.

• September 26: Sim Sitkin, Duke University
• October 3: Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks, University of Michigan
• October 10: Erin Leahey, University of Arizona
• October 17: Heng (Alice) Xu, MIT Sloan
• October 24: No meeting (SIP week)
• October 31: Tanya Menon, University of Chicago
• November 7: Ellen Kossek, Michigan State University
• November 14: Jason Greenberg, MIT Sloan
• November 21: Jared Curhan, MIT Sloan
• November 28: No meeting (Thanksgiving)
• December 5: Sigal Barsade, University of Pennsylvania