Madison Singell
Madison Singell
Hi, I’m Madison! I’m a PhD Candidate in Macro Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. My research explores how the way we understand the world and tell stories about it impacts our ability to organize well.
I’m a computational and mathematical modeler, and I also use natural language processing and other computational methods to identify understandings and narratives in text data. Prior to graduate school, I received my bachelor’s degree in Economics from Harvard and spent several years working in consulting, technology, and people analytics research.
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Research Statement
Causal understandings, such as causal narratives, are a key way humans convey meaning and negotiate interpretations. In organizations, in order to decide what to do next, it’s important stakeholders agree about what happened. But employees often don’t agree and struggle to reach convergence in understandings, even in a shared context like an organization. I study how the nature of the world, our experiences, and our culture impacts the understandings we form, in order to understand how organizations who are seeking to form convergent strategies can better navigate the pitfalls of divergent understandings.
Research Interests
- Causal Inference
- Narratives
- Computational Social Science
- Strategy
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Publications
Working Papers
Singell, Madison.
Singell, Madison, Andrea Freund, Lindred Greer, Hayagreeva Rao, and Magaret Neale.
Polzer, Jeff, Evan DeFilippis, and Madison Singell.
Work in Progress
Singell, Madison and Amir Goldberg.
Atwell, Jon, and Madison Singell.
Singell, Madison.