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WINSTON CENTER RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES

Fall 2009

Friday, September 25, 2009
"Beauty in Everyday Work: Seeing the Resourcefulness of Staff"
Professor Jane Dutton, University of Michigan
Fulton Hall Honors Library
1:30-3:00pm

Wednesday, September 30, 2009
"Fashioning an Industry: The Institutionalization of a New Industry in the Absence of Concerted, Centrally Coordinated Action"

Professor Mukti Khaire, Harvard Business School
Lynch Center, Fulton 513 
10-11:30am

Wednesday, November 4, 2009
"In God We Trust: A Comparison of Spiritualities at Work"

Professor Lloyd E. (Lance) Sandelands, University of Michigan
Lynch Center, Fulton 513
10-11:30am

Wednesday, December 9, 2009
"Immoral But Not Illegal: Monies vs. Mores Amidst the Mortgage Meltdown"
Paul Hirsch, James Allen Professor of Strategy and Organization, Northwestern University 
Fulton Hall Honors Library
12:00pm-2:00pm


Summer 2009

3rd Annual Winston Center Summer Day Camp: Research 101

Tuesday, May 26, 2009
"Studying CSR from an Organizational Theory Perspective"
A conversation with Professor Chris Marquis, Harvard Business School, Sandra Waddock, Boston College, and Brad Googins, Boston College
Fulton Hall 513, 12-1:30pm

Wednesday, June 10, 2009
"Ethnography 101"
Professor Mike Pratt, Carroll School of Management Faculty
Fulton 412, 12-1:30pm

Wednesday, June 24, 2009
"The Effects of Anger in the Workplace"
Professor Anat Rafaeli, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Fulton Honors Library, 12-1:30pm

Spring 2009

March 18th, 2009                                                                     Movie Madness: Film Screening and Discussion

Fulton Hall Honors Library

5:00pm

April 21st, 2009

Professor Kim Elsbach, UC Davis

Lynch Center, Fulton Hall 513
12pm -1:30pm

April 22nd, 2009

Professor Roxana Barbulescu, McGill University

Fulton Hall 412
10:30am-12:00pm

May 6th, 2009

Professor Connie Helfat, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth. "Cognitive Capabilities and the Entrepreneurial Management Components of Dynamic Capabilities."

Lynch Center, Fulton Hall 513
12pm -1:30pm

Fall 2008

November 5th, 2008

"Empirical Tests of a Leadership Framework: Multi-method studies of leader effects on overall leadership perceptions, trust, aspirations, community and performance." Sim B. Sitkin, Professor of Management, Faculty Director, Center of Leadership and Ethics, Fuqua School of Business at Duke University

Fulton Honors Library
12pm

November 14th, 2008

Deborah Dougherty, Professor of Management & Global Business, Rutgers University, Senior Editor, Organization Science.

Fulton Honors Library
12pm


Summer 2008

2nd Annual Winston Center Summer Day Camp: Research 101

Wednesday, May 28, 2008
"Networks 101"
Rich DeJordy and Dan Halgin, PhD Students in Organization Studies

Friday, June 6, 2008
"ANOVA 101 and the Basics of Experimental Design"
Professor Adam Brasel, Carroll School of Management Faculty

Spring 2008

January 28th, 2008                                                      "It's a Matter of Time: The Psychology of Intergenerational Decisions."  Professor Kim Wade-Benzoni, Duke University
                                                                                                   

February 20th, 2008                                                          "The Organizational Integrity Imperative: Theory & Evidence." Professor Matthew Kraatz, University of Illinois

March 12th, 2008                                                                     Movie Madness: Viewing of the film, 13 Days, with a discussion of JFK's leadership during the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962). For background reading, click here.                                                            

Fulton Hall, Lynch Executive Center
5:30pm

April 7th, 2008

"Strategy as Practice: A Sociological Approach to Studying Strategy." Julia Balogun, Professor of Strategic Management, Cass Business School, London.

Fulton Hall, Lynch Executive Center
1:30-2:45pm

April 16th, 2008

Paths to Power: How Insiders and Outsiders Shaped American Business Leadership

Laura Singleton of Boston College, Tony Mayo of Harvard Business School, and (schedule permitting) Nitin Nohria of Harvard Business School will discuss their 2007 book.               

Fulton Hall, Lynch Executive Center
12-1:30pm
 
 

Previous Winston Center Speakers: Fall 2007

October 10, 2007
Professor David Lazer, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University


November 1, 2007

Professor Pamela S. Tolbert
, Cornell University

December 13, 2007

Professor Michael Lounsbury, University of Alberta

2007 Winston Center Summer Day Camp: Research 101

Topics: Positive Organizational Scholarship; Structural Equation Modeling; Action Learning; Organizational Identity