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2025

Manish Raghavan | Information heterogeneity in AI systems

Friday, May 16, 2025

Manish Raghavan, Drew Houston (2005) Career Development Porfessor at the MIT Sloan School of Managaement and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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Hatim Rahman | Digging Deep: How Data Embeddedness Shapes Data Work for AI in Organizations

Friday, April 18, 2025

Hatim Rahman, Associate Professor of Management and Organizations and Sociology (by courtesy) at Northwestern University

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Laura Dabbish | Talk: On the Social and Psychological Impacts of Emerging Technologies

Friday, March 21, 2025

Laura Dabbish, Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII)

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Manav Raj | Kindle's Shadow: How Digitization Dims Novelty in Creative Industries

Friday, February 21, 2025

Manav Raj, Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

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Callen Anthony | Speaking To Those Who Know: How Experts Manage Knowledge Overlaps With Clients

Friday, January 31, 2025

Callen Anthony, Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations at the Stern School of Business at New York University

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2024

Pamela Hinds | Secondhand Influence Capital, Social Capital, and Idea Quality in Open Innovation Communities

Thursday, May 2, 2024

Pamela Hinds, Professor of Management, Science & Engineering, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University

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Sameer Srivastava | Throwing Curveballs: Unpacking Surprising Questions in Evaluative Settings and Probing their Origins

Thursday, April 4, 2024

Sameer Srivastava, Professor of Business Administration & Public Policy, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

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Sekou Bermiss | The Devil You Know: Human Capital Selection in Temporary Organizations

Thursday, March 7, 2024

Sekou Bermiss, Associate Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship, UNC Kenon-Flagler
 

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Wanda Orlikowski | Institutional Displacement: Reconfiguring Public Libraries in the Digital Era

Friday, February 9, 2024

Wanda Orlikowski, Professor of Information Technologies & Organization Studies, Sloan School of Management at MIT
 

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Violina Rindova | Addressing Societal Grand Challenges through Entrepreneurial Means

Thursday, January 18, 2024

Violina Rindova, Associate Dean of Research & PhD Programs, Dean's Leadership Circle Chair, and Professor of Strategy at Merage School of Business, UC Irvine

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2023

Lindsey Cameron | Remanufacturing Consent: How Algorithmic Management Repurposes Workplace Consent

Friday, May 5, 2023

Lindsey Cameron, Assistant Professor of Management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

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Dev Jennings | Shifting the Public / Private Boundary:  Normative Appeals in Covid Frames around Schooling and Social Gatherings

Friday, April 14, 2023

Dev Jennings, Coordinator of the Interpretive Data Science (IDeaS) Group, the Canadian Center for CSR Coordinator at the Alberta School of Business, and Co-PI in the Future Energy System (FES) Research Consortium

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Arvind Karunakaran | Scrutiny as Spectacle: Social Media Scrutiny of Frontline Professionals and its Implications for Accountability

Friday, March 10, 2023

Arvind Karunakaran, Assistant Professor of Management Science; Engineering at Stanford University

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2022

Sarah Lebovitz | To Engage or Not to Engage with AI for Critical Judgments: How Professionals Deal with Opacity When Using AI for Medical Diagnosis

Thursday, January 13, 2022

Sarah Lebovitz, Assistant Professor of Information Technology, University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce

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2021

Andrea Hollingshead | Team Wellbeing

Friday, May 21, 2021

Andrea Hollingshead, Professor, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California

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Gerardo Okhuysen | Saying no: Examining executives’ refusal of corporate directives

Friday, April 16, 2021

Dr. Gerardo Okhuysen, Professor, Organization and Management, Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine

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Coye Cheshire | Trust, Cooperation, and Prosocial Behavior with Information Technologies

Friday, March 19, 2021

Dr. Coye Cheshire, Professor, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley
 

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Archive of Dean's Lecture Series Talks by Academic Year

Platform Strategy: Managing Ecosystem Value Through Selective Promotion of Complements

Dr. Melissa Schilling, Herzog Family Professor of Management, New York University Stern School of Business

Friday, February 8, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm


The Power of Simmelian Tie Decomposition in Organizational Analysis    

Dr. David Krackhardt, Professor of Organizations, Heinz School of Public Policy and Management and Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University

Friday, March 1, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm


Back to the Future: Technology Reemergence through the Lens of Music Synthesizers 

Dr. Mary Tripsas, Associate Professor, Carroll School of Management, Boston College

Friday, May 3, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm


When Eliminating Bias Isn't Fair: Algorithms Quantification, and Procedural Justice

Dr. Nathanael Fast, Professor of Management, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California

Friday, May 17, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm


Explaining the Escalation of Activism through Repertoire Reconfiguration

Siobhan O'Mahony, Associate Professor in Strategy and Innovation at the Boston University Questrom School of Business and the Academic Director of Research and Curriculum for Innovate at Boston University Questrom School of Business

Friday, May 31, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm

Knowledge and Social Networks that Predict Breakthroughs and Professional Success in Science and Technology

Brian Uzzi, Professor of Sociology and Engineering at Northwestern University

January 29, 2018


How the West was Won by Data​

Geof Bowker, Professor at the University of California, Irvine

March 2, 2018


Acceleration as Mitigation: Whether and When Process Solutions Can Address Gender Bias in Entrepreneurship

Sarah Kaplan, Distinguished Professor, University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management

April 6, 2018


The Political Economy of Innovation in China

Heather Haveman, Professor of Sociology and Business at the University of California, Berkeley

May 4, 2018

Flash organizations: Crowdsourcing complex work via reconfigurable organizational structures

Melissa Valentine, Assistant Professor of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University

October 7, 2016


Low-Overhead, Action-Oriented Team Science in International Contexts

Scott Poole, David L. Swanson Professor of Communication, University of Illinois

October 28, 2016


The specter of testifying: Forensic scientists as advocates for the evidence

Beth Bechky, Jacob B. Melnick Term Professor of Management and Organizations, New York University

December 2, 2016


The reconstitution of work practices during a radical hospital transformation

Samer Faraj, Professor of Technology, Management & Healthcare, McGill University

January 13, 2017


Brad Staats, Associate Professor of Operations, University of North Carolina

February 3, 2017


Linda Argote, David M. Kirr & Barbara A. Kirr Professor of Organizational Behavior and Theory, Carnegie Mellon University

March 17, 2017


Melissa Mazmanian, Associate Professor of Informatics, University of California, Irvine

April 7, 2017


Ron Burt, Hobart W. Williams Professor of Sociology and Strategy, University of Chicago

May 19, 2017


Janet Vertesi, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Princeton University

June 2, 2017

Giving Ideas That Won’t Get Rejected: How Personal Identity Relates to Idea-Taking in Creative Collaboration

Kimberly Elsbach, Professor of Management and Associate Dean for Instruction, Stephen G. Newberry Endowed Chair in Leadership, UC Davis Graduate School of Management 

May 27, 2016 


Between conception and creation: Uncertainty, commitment, and the innovation of penicillin

Andrew Hargadon, Professor of Technology Management, Charles J. Soderquist Chair in Entrepreneurship, UC Davis Graduate School of Management

May 17, 2016


The Advocacy Trap: When legitimacy-building inhibits organizational learning

Amy Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management, Harvard Business School

March 11, 2016


Putting Your Best Self to Work: How Best-Self Activation Influences Emotions, Physiology, and Employment Relationships

Daniel Cable, Professor, Organisational Behaviour, London Business School

November 13, 2015

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