University of Southern California

Academic Units

Seminars

2012 (Fridays)

Seminars are from 10:30 AM to 12 noon unless otherwise specified. NOTE: Some are on Wednesdays!

Seminar Schedule
Friday, March 2 Ted Baker JKP 102 Paik & Greif Center (Rajagopalan)
Friday, March 9 Kurt Dirks JKP 102 SW
Wednesday, March 21 Frank Rothaermel (with Greif Center)
Georgia Tech
 TBA TCC 350 VB & Greif Center
Wednesday,April 4 Markku Maula
Aalto University
 Top Management Attention to Discontinuous Technological Change: Corporate Venture Capital as an Alert Mechanism TCC 232 Helena Yli-Renko
Friday, April 6 Bennett Tepper
Georgia State University
 Supervisors and Subordinates Behaving Badly: Some Recent Developements in Workplace Hostility Research JKP 102 NF
Wednesday, April 11 Sendil Ethiraj (with Greif Center)
University of Michigan
 Winners and losers following an industry demand shock: Effects of Hurricane Katrina on the Property and Casualty insurance industry HOH 306 FZ
Friday, April 13 Violina Rindova
University of Texas
 The Stuff of Legends: Mnemonic Practices and the Construction of Organizational Identity in Corporate Museums JKP 102 FZ
Friday, April 20 Scott Reynolds
University of Washington
 Poor engagement or strong disengagement? Competing views of immorality JKP 102 SW & NF
Tuesday, April 24 Anthea Zhang (with Greif Center)
Rice University
 TBA BRI 8 Nan Jia & Greif Center (Rajagopalan)
Friday, April 27 Ronnie Chatterji (with Greif Center)
Duke University
 TBA JKP 102 VB & Greif Center

2011 (Fridays)

Seminars are from 10:30 AM to 12 noon unless otherwise specified. NOTE: Some are on Wednesdays!

Seminar Schedule
Friday, September 9 Eric Knowles
UC Berkeley
 What do we mean when we say 'colorblindness' or 'diversity?': Social motivations and the malleability of intergroup ideology ACC 236 SW & NF
Friday, September 16 Marvin Lieberman
UCLA
 Who Imitates Whom? An Empirical Study of New Product Introductions in the Japanese Soft-drink Industry HOH 303 FZ & VB
Friday, September 23 Pam Smith
UC San Diego
 The Social Distance Theory of Power HOH 303 SW & NF
Friday, September 30 Note: Time is 2:30 - 4:30 Margarethe Wiersema
UC Irvine
 Executive Turnover in the Stock Option Backdating Wave: The Impact of Social Context JKP 102 FZ & VB
Friday, October 7 Blake Ashforth
ASU
 Ambivalence in Organizations HOH 305 SW & NF
Wednesday, October 19 Cheris Shun-ching Chan
The University of Hong Kong
 Marketing Death: Culture and Life Insurance Markets in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong HOH 302 Peer Fiss
Friday, October 21 Anne Marie Knott
Washington University
 No Exit: Failure to Exit under Uncertainty ACC 236 FZ & VB
Friday, October 28 Chen-Bo Zhong
University of Toronto
 Embodied Morality ACC 236 SW & NF
Friday, November 4 Myles Shaver
University of Minnesota
 Confounding Changes in Averages with Marginal Effects: Anchoring within Strategic Investment Assessments ACC 236 FZ & VB
Friday, November 11 Ramon Casadesus-Masanell
Harvard Business School
 Competing Complements ACC 236 FZ & VB
Friday, November 18 Gino Cattani
NYU
 Navigating the Sea of Controversy: The Legitimation Journey of John Harrison's Marine Chronometer ACC 236 FZ & VB
Wednesday, November 23 Bruce Kogut
Columbia University
 Executive Compensation, Fat Cats, and Best Athletes ACC 236

If you have questions or comments, please contact (click on name) one of the following faculty members: Feng Zhu, Scott Wiltermuth, Nathanael Fast, or Victor Bennett. You may also contact the main MOR department at 213.740.0728.