Organizational Behavior Seminars

Find seminars on organizational behavior that are open to Stanford GSB faculty and PhD students, or request permission to attend.

OB seminars are held on Wednesdays from 12:00 to 1:15 p.m., unless otherwise indicated. Stanford GSB faculty may also schedule a session to meet the speaker individually.

Winter 2026

Date & Time	Speaker	Title
Jan 14 12:00-1:15 pm E247	Tristan L. Botelho Yale University	Getting in the Door vs. Winning It All: How Gendered Outcome Change Across Evaluation Stages in Entrepreneurship Abstract
Jan 21 12:00-1:15 pm E247	Timothy Kundro University of North Carolina	Misconduct and Mishaps: How the Source of Wrongful Punishment Shapes Victims’ Restitution Seeking Abstract
Feb 4 12:00-1:15 pm E247	Andrea Baronchelli University of London	How groups coordinate: social conventions, tipping points, and collective bias in human and LLM populations Abstract
Feb 11 12:00-1:15 pm E247	William Brady Northwestern University	Redesigning algorithms to intervene on social norm misperceptions during a national election Abstract
Feb 18 12:00-1:15 pm E247	Vanessa Burbano Columbia University	The Impact of Promotion versus Prevention Frames on Necessity Entrepreneurs’ Participation in Corporate-sponsored Training Programs: Field Experimental Evidence Abstract
Mar 4 12:00-1:15 pm E247	Nathan Wilmers Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mar 11 12:00-1:15 pm E247	Cailin O’Connor University of California Irvine	Big Tech and the Science of Social Media Abstract
Mar 18 12:00-1:15 pm E247	Emily M. Zitek Cornell University

Spring 2026

Date & Time	Speaker	Title
Apr 8 12:00-1:15 pm TBD	Joshua Jackson The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Apr 15 12:00-1:15 pm TBD	Siwei Chen New York University
Apr 29 12:00-1:15 pm TBD	Catherine Shea Carnegie Mellon University
May 13 12:00-1:15 pm TBD	David C. Stark Columbia University

Fall 2025

Date & Time	Speaker	Title
Oct 1 12:00-1:15 pm E247	Ivuoma Ngozi Onyeador Northwestern University	“But What about My Free Speech?” Free Speech Appeals Reduce Accountability for Bias Joint paper with Felix Danbold and Kylie Davis
Oct 15 12:00-1:15 pm E247	YY Ahn University of Virginia	Modeling the Structure and Dynamics of Interconnected Human Beliefs Abstract
Oct 22 12:00-1:15 pm E247	Michael S. North New York University	Addressing an Aging and Multigenerational Workforce Abstract
Nov 5 12:00-1:15 pm E247	Eric Feltham Postdoc at Columbia, PhD from Yale	Cognitive representations of social networks in isolated villages
Nov 12 12:00-1:15 pm E247	Jessica Reif Duke University	Space and structure: The interplay between proximity, unit boundaries, and supervision in shaping workplace interactions Joint paper with Ramon Lecuona Torras,and Jonathon Cummingsa
Nov 17 12:00-1:15 pm BC332	Brandon Freiberg Columbia University	Who Starts Up? How Market Cycles Shape the Psychology of Entrepreneurial Entry
Nov 19 12:00-1:15 pm E247	Turgut Keskinturk Duke University	Generational Imprinting: How Political Events Shape Cohorts
Nov 21 12:00-1:15 pm E102	Emily Hu Postdoc at MIT, PhD from Wharton	The Task Space: An Integrative Framework for Team Research
Dec 1 12:00-1:15 pm E102	Federico Zimmerman Harvard Business School	Political coherence and certainty as drivers of interpersonal liking over and above similarity joint paper with Gerry Garbulsky, Dan Ariely, Mariano Sigman and Joaquin Navajas Attraction to politically extreme users on social media joint paper with David D Bailey, Goran Muric, Emilio Ferrara, Jonas Schöne, Robb Willer, Eran Halperin, Joaquín Navajas, James J Gross, Amit Goldenberg
Dec 3 12:00-1:15 pm E247	Amit Goldenberg Harvard Business School	Emotion regulation contagion drives reduction in negative intergroup emotions Joint paper with Michael Pinus, Yajun Cao, Eran Halperin, Alin Coman and James J. Gross
Dec 5 12:00-1:15 pm Virtual contact Sonya Ponce for details	Shihan Li Carnegie Mellon	Gender Differences in Network Signals: Political Skill as a Lever for Women to Bridge the Divide