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