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Organizational Behavior Seminars

DateSpeakerAffiliationTopic
October 26, 2026Adam Galinsky (Dean's Distinguished Visiting Fellow)Columbia UniversityAre You a Lumper or a Splitter? Two Strategies for Building a Program of Research
February 20, 2026Timothy KundroUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillMisconduct and Mishaps: How the Source of Wrongful Punishment Shapes Victims’ Restitution Seeking
March 6, 2026Batia WiesenfeldNew York UniversityGenerative organizational learning: Affordances for new modes of knowledge search, creation, transfer, and forgetting with LLMs
March 13, 2026Luke HeddenUniversity of MiamiAdrenaline and Sorrow: How Python Hunters Manage Values Conflicts
April 13, 2026Katherine DeCelles (Dean's Distinguished Visiting Fellow)University of TorontoCoded Language in Job Advertisements
May 1, 2026Justin BergUniversity of MichiganLearning to Sustain Success in Creative Work: The Enduring Impact of Initial Novelty

Past Seminars

  • DateSpeakerAffiliationTopic
    January 31, 2025Adina SterlingColumbia UniversityIs it the Expression that Counts? Gender and the Hiring of Women and Men into Entry-Level Sales Jobs
    February 21, 2025Michel AntebyBoston UniversityWhy What Resists is Often Revealing
    March 3, 2025Aparna Joshi (Dean's Distinguished Visiting Fellow)University of MichiganIt’s not You, it’s Us: From Leader to Stakeholder-oriented Theorizing about Gender Bias in Leadership Settings
    March 7, 2025Nick HaysMichigan State UniversityThe Social Relations-Approach Theory of Social Hierarchy: Understanding the Distinct Psychological Experiences of Status and Power
    April 4, 2025Michael PrattBoston CollegeMoving Beyond Identity Polarization Towards Depolarization & Reconciliation
    April 11, 2025Amandine Ody-BrasierMcGill University(Un)necessary Evil: The Role of Work Context in Enabling Abuse in U.S. Nursing Homes
  • DateSpeakerAffiliationTopic
    December 7, 2023Emily BianchiEmory UniversityDoes Job Satisfaction Rise and Fall with the Economy? Cross-Sectional, Longitudinal, and Experimental Evidence that Job Satisfaction Increases during Recessions
    January 30, 2024Nancy Rothbard (Dean's Distinguished Visiting Fellow)University of PennsylvaniaCreating the Will Without the Way? How and When Employee Belonging Leads to Voice on DEI Issues
    February 23, 2024Amir GoldbergStanford UniversityLocally Ensconced and Globally Integrated: How Positions in Network Structure Relate to a Language-Based Model of Group Identification
    March 1, 2024Wesley David SineCornell UniversityRefugees at the Door: Initial Funding Partners and New Venture Performance in a Changing Emerging Market
    March 22, 2024Scott WiltermuthUniversity of Southern CaliforniaHow Workers Reemerge Professionally after Public Stigmatization and How Forgiving Workplace Mistreatment Affects Trust in the Victim
    March 29, 2024Simone TangCornell UniversityCreating an organizational underdog and its consequences on moral and immoral outcomes
    April 12, 2024Rosalind ChowCarnegie Mellon UniversityThe Costof Sponsorship
    April 19, 2024Nir HalevyStanford UniversityCooperation Liberates: Putting the “Us” in Autonomous