Skip to Content

Faculty Seminars

 
  • Email
  • Print
  • Share

2008-09 Organizational Behavior Seminars

OB Seminars will be held on Wednesdays from 12:00- 1:15 pm, unless otherwise indicated. Should you have any questions please contact our seminar organizers Liz Mullen and Sarah Soule.

Please select the link above to view the schedule or e-mail Rochelle Bagalso for an appointment.

Spring 2009

Speaker

Title

Time/Place

April 1 Robyn Mallett
Loyola University Chicago
Expect the Unexpected: Failure to Anticipate Similarities Leads to an Intergroup Forecasting Error 12:00-1:15 PM
L107
April 7
Tuesday
Joint with PE
Witold Henisz
University of Pennsylvania
(visiting Stanford)
Preferences, Structure and Influence: The Engineering of Consent 12:00-1:00 PM
L107
April 15 Ted Gerber
University of Wisconsin
Getting Personal: Networks, Institutions, and Stratification in the Russian Labor Market, 1985-2001 12:00-1:15 PM
L107
April 22 No Seminar    
April 29 Ashby Plant
Florida State University
The Motivation to Respond without Prejudice: Implications for the Regulation of Racial Bias (no paper) 12:00-1:15 PM
L107
May 6 No Seminar    
May 13 Katherine Stovel
University of Washington
(visitng Stanford)
Hearing About a Job: Networks, Information, and Labor Market Segregation (Abstract) 12:00-1:15 PM
L107
May 20 No Seminar    
May 27 Monica Biernat
University of Kansas
Stereotypes in the Communication and Translation of Person Impressions
(Abstract)
12:00-1:15 PM
L107
June 3 No Seminar    

 

Winter 2009

Speaker

Title

Time/Place

January 21 Don Moore
Carnegie Mellon University
The Market for Overconfidence

Related paper:
Competing To Be Certain (But Wrong): Social Pressure and Overprecision in Judgment
12:00-1:15 PM
S182
February 4 Martin Ruef
Princeton University
(visiting Stanford)
Group Composition and the Problem of Collective Action: Evidence from Business Startups in the United States

Related paper
12:00-1:15 PM
L107
February 18 Gerardo Okhuysen
University of Utah
(visiting Stanford)
The Uncertain, Unpredictable, and Unknown: Managing the External Environment in a Police Swat Team 12:00-1:15 PM
S183
March 4 Elena Obukhova
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
When Does Brokerage Work: Brain Circulation and Organizational Performance 12:00-1:15 PM
L107

 

Fall 2008

Speaker

Title

Time/Place

October 1 Jeremy Bailenson
Stanford University
Transformed Social Interaction in Virtual Reality (no paper) 11:45-1:00 PM
L107
October 15 Kieran Healy
Duke University
The Performativity of Networks 12:00-1:15 PM
L107
December 1
Monday
John-Paul Ferguson
MIT
Space Invaders: Categories, Valuation and Union Organizing Drives, 1961-1999 12:00-1:15 PM
S161
December 8
Monday
Xi " Canny" Zou
Columbia University
The Construction and Using of Social Networks: A Regulatory Fcus Perspective 12:00-1:15 PM
L107
December 11
Thursday
Katherine Milkman
Harvard Business School
Highbrow Films Gather Dust: Time-Inconsistent Preferences and Online DVD Rentals 12:00-1:15 PM
L107
December 15
Monday
Felipe Csaszar   12:00-1:15 PM
L107