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 2023

Date & Time Speaker Title
Jan 23
12:00-1:15
E247
Elke Weber 
Princeton University 
Deep Uncertainty, Collective Action, and Coordination in the Face of Climate Change: How Attention and Choice Processes Influence Choice Outcomes (
Jan 25
12:00-1:15
E247
Dror Etzion
McGill University 
Feb 01
12:00-1:15
E247
Basima Tewfik
MIT Sloan School of Management 
 
Feb 15
12:00-1:15
E247
Noshir Contractor
Northwestern University 
People Analytics: Using Digital Exhaust from the Web to Leverage Network Insights in the Algorithmically Infused Workplace (
Feb 27
12:00-1:15
E247
James Evans
University of Chicago 
Designing Diversity for Sustained Innovation ( )
March 01
12:00-1:15
E247
Erika Kirgios
University of Chicago Booth School of Business
When seeking help, women and racial/ethnic minorities benefit from explicitly stating their identity joint paper with Aneesh Rai, Edward H. Chang and Katherine L. Milkman
March 08
12:00-1:15
E247
Simon DeDeo
Carnegie Mellon University

Cultural Evolution, Cognitive Constraint, and the Landscape of the Possible (

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March 15
12:00-1:15
E247
Maureen Craig
NYU
Coalition-building in a diversifying nation ( )

Spring 2023

Date & Time Speaker Title
Apr 12
12:00-1:15
E247
Felipe Csaszar
Ross School of Business University of Michigan 
 
Apr 19
12:00-1:15
E247
Jon Jachimowicz
Harvard Business School 
 
Apr 26
12:00-1:15
E247
Claudine Gartenberg
The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania  
 
May 03
12:00-1:15
E247
Michael Slepian
Columbia Business School
 
May 10
12:00-1:15
E247
Drew Jacoby-Senghor
Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley
 
May 17
12:00-1:15
E247
Emily Erikson
Yale University 
 
May 24
12:00-1:15
E247
Rachel Ruttan
Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto 
 
May 31
12:00-1:15
E247
Micro 2nd Year PhD Presentations  
June 07
12:00-1:15
E247
Macro 2nd Year PhD Presentations   

Fall 2022

Date & Time Speaker Title
Sep 28
12:00-1:15
E247
Jennifer Eberhardt
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice that Shapes What We See, Think and Do
Oct 05
12:00-1:15
E247
Julia DiBenigno
Yale School of Management 
 joint paper with Elisabeth Yang
Oct 12
12:00-1:15
E247
Aylin Caliskan
University of Washington Information School
Sexual Objectification of Women and Girls in Implicit Machine Cognition 
Oct 19
12:00-1:15
E247
Abigail Jacobs
University of Michigan 
Oct 26
12:00-1:15
E247
Chris Esposito
UCLA
The Speed of Knowledge and the Organization of Invention joint paper with Frank van der Wouden
Oct 26
12:00-1:15
E102

Jordan Starck
Stanford University

How university diversity rationales inform student preferences and outcomes joint paper with Stacey Sinclair, and J. Nicole Shelton 
Oct 31
12:00-1:15
E247
Bekhzod Khoshimov
University of Wisconsin
Emotional Coherence and Venture Outcomes: Machine Learning Approaches in the Study of Startup Pitches
Nov 02
12:00-1:15
E247
Erica Bailey
Columbia University
Are You for Real? Perceptions of Authenticity Are Systematically Biased and Not Accurate joint paper with Aharon Levy
Nov 07
12:00-1:15
E247
Nicole Kreisberg
Brown University
Nativity Penalty and Legal Status Paradox: The Effects of Nativity and Legal Status Signals in the US Labor Market
Nov 07
12:00-1:15
E102
Derek Brown
UC Berkeley
Majority Members Misperceive Even “Win-Win” Diversity Policies as
Unbeneficial to Them
joint paper with Drew S. Jacoby-Senghor
Nov 09
12:00-1:15
E247
Helena Miton
Central European University
joint paper with Simon DeDeo
Nov 09
12:00-1:15
E102
David Munguia-Gomez
University of Chicago
joint paper with Emma E. Levine
Nov 14
12:00-1:15
BC332
Oscar Stuhler
New York University
Who Does What to Whom? Making Text Parsers Work for Sociological Inquiry
Nov 16
12:00-1:15
E247
Janet Xu
Princeton University
Prize or Penalty? Reputational Effects of Diversity Scholarships in the Labor Market
Nov 16
12:00-1:15
E102
Xuechunzi Bai
Princeton University
joint paper with Thomas L. Griffiths and Susan T. Fiske
Nov 28
12:00-1:15
BC332
Hagay Volvovsky
MIT
Collaborating at the Tower of Babel: The Meaning of Cooperation and the Foundations of Long-Term Exchange
Nov 28
12:00-1:15
E102
David Levari
Harvard Business School
joint paper with Adam M. Mastroianni, Jacob Verrey, & Daniel T. Gilbert
Nov 30
12:00-1:15
E102
David Melnikoff
Northeastern University
joint paper with Ryan W. Carlson & Paul E. Stillman
Dec 05
12:00-1:15
BC332
Bernard Koch
UCLA
Reduced, Reused and Recycled: The Life of a Dataset in Machine Learning Research joint paper with Emily Denton, Alex Hanna and Jacob G. Foster

Seminar Organizers

Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior
Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior