Organizational Behavior Academic Placements

Graduates are listed by year of graduation, initial placement, and dissertation title.

Gabrielle Adams, '11
London Business School
"Punishers Become More Deviant"

Ming Leung, '10
University of California - Berkeley, Haas School of Business
"Three Essays on the Cognitive Effects of Categorization Processes in Markets"

Nathanael Fast, '09
University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business
"Power Corrupts, But Not Absolutely: Power, Incompetence, and Hubris"

Mi Feng, '09
Peking University
"Organization Scope and Identity: Competition among Commercial Banks in California from 1900 to 1990"

Balaz Kovacs, '09
University of Lugano, Institute of Management
"Essays on the Similarity of Organizations"

Gael Le Mens, '09
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
"Experiential Learning, Uncertainty and Information"

Scott Wiltermuth, '09
University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business
"The Benefits of Dominance Complementarity in Negotiations"

Rosalind Chow, '08
Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business
"Thanks, But No Thanks: The Role of Responsibility in the Experience Of Gratitude"

Xiaoqu Luo, '08
Fordham University
"How Mergers and Acquisitions Affect Organizational Growth Rates"

Kimberly Morrison, '08
Ohio State University - School of Communication
"Self-Uncertainty and Minority Opinion Expression"

Elizabeth Pontikes, '08
The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
"Fitting in or Starting New? An Analysis of Invention, Constraint, and the Emergence of New Categories in the Software Industry"

Jarrett Spiro, '08
INSEAD
"The Impact of Network Position and Network Mobility on Collaborative Strategies ,Novelty, and Innovation: The Case of the Artists Network in the U.S. Film "

Nicolas Switanek, 08
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
"Ideological Competition and the Rise of Business Collaboration among U.S. Environmental Nonprofits"

Sanford Devoe , '07
University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management
"When Time is Money: The Effect of Organizational Practices on the Evaluation and Use of Time "

Margaret Ena Inesi, '07
London Business School
"Power and the Valuation of Outcomes "

Marwan Sinaceur , '07
INSEAD
"Suspending Judgment to Create Value:Suspicion and Trust in Negotiations "

Miguel Unzueta, '06
University of California, Los Angeles, Anderson School of Management
"The Role of Self-Image Maintenance on White Americans' Conception of Racism"

Hongwei Xu, '06
National University of Singapore
"Organizational Diversity and Formation of Cultural Institutions in U.S. Communities 1870-1998"

Olivia Amanda O'Neill, '05
University of Georgia, Terry College of Business
"Masculine Emotional Norms in Organizations"

Alison Fragale, '04
University of North Carolina - Kenan-Flagler Business School
"Sorting the Hierarchy: The Process of Status Conferral in Task Groups"

Joseph Magee, '04
New York University -Wagner School of Public Service
"From Action to Power: The Use of Action-Orientation in Inferences of Power"

Maia Young, '04
University of California, Los Angeles - Anderson School of Business
"Magic at Work: Quasi-magical Judgments of Colleagues and Leaders in Work Organizations"

Christina Fong, '03
University of Washington
"The Effects of Emotional Ambivalence on Creativity"

Greta Hsu, '03
University of California, Davis - Graduate School of Management 
"The Structure of Quality in Market Contexts"

Ozgecan Kocak, '03
Columbia Business School
"Social Orders of Exchange: Problems of Valuation and the Emergence of Social Order in Markets"

Mooweon Rhee, '03
University of Hawaii, College of Business Administration

"The Liability of Good Reputation"

Bilian Ni Sullivan, '03
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
"Contextual Impact of Problems in the Process of Solution Generation"

Karen Page, '03
University of Wyoming
"Blood on the Coal: The Effects of Organizational Complexity on Mine Accidents from 1983-1999"

Daniel Stewart, '02
Whitworth College, WA
"Status Mobility and Status Stability in a Professional Community"

Fabrizio Castellucci, '01
INSEAD, France
"Status, Change, and Performance in Formula One Racing"

Tanya Menon, '00
University of Chicago
"The Valuation of Internal Versus External Knowledge: How Competition Within Organizations Focuses Knowledge Search beyond the Organizational Boundary"

Jane Wei, '00
London Business School
"On the Strategic Advantage of Taking the Road Less Traveled: A Study of Government Licensed Venture Capital Companies, 1959-1997"

Christine Beckman, '99
University of California, Irvine
"Learning from Diversity in Interorganizational Networks"

Katherine Williams Phillips, '99
Northwestern University
"Working with a Double-Edged Sword: The Unexpected Benefits of Within-Team Boundaries"

Damon Phillips, '98
University of Chicago
"The Promotion Paradox: The Relationship between Firm Life Chances and Employee Promotion Chances in Silicon Valley Law Firms,1946-1996"

Steve Su, '98
INSEAD, France
"Wealth, Consumption, and Happiness: The Role of Implicit Theories about the Fixedness and Elasticity of Preferences in Financial Sacrifices for the Environment"

Douglas Park, Õ97
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
"Competition, Status, and Network Dynamics: The Case of Investment Banking"

Morten Hansen, '96
Harvard Business School
"Searching for and Transferring Knowledge through the Intra-Company Network"