Events

    Management & Organizations Colloquium Series
    Faculty affiliated with the department organize several speaker and seminar series. The list below includes sessions of the departmental speaker series (marked MORS), as well as those organized by the Dispute Resolution Research Center (DRRC), the Kellogg Team and Groups Center (KTAG), the Center for Executive Women (CEW) the Strategy and Organizations Workshop (SOW), the Center on the Science of Diversity (CSD) and the Social Interaction and Organizing at Northwestern (SION).

    All seminars take place in the MORS Conference Room, Leverone Hall 372, unless otherwise noted.

    Upcoming Events

    Past Events

    • Richard Swedberg

      May 15, 2013

      Management & Organizations Colloquium

      Cornell University
      12:00-1:30pm, Jacobs Center, Room 372

    • Ray Reagans

      May 01, 2013

      Management & Organizations Colloquium

      MIT
      12:00-1:30pm, Jacobs Center, Room 372

    • Donald C. Hambrick

      Apr 17, 2013

      Management & Organizations Colloquium

      The Pennsylvania State University
      12:00-1:30pm, Jacobs Center, Room 372

    • Max Bazerman

      Apr 10, 2013

      Management & Organizations Colloquium

      Harvard Business School
      12:00-1:30pm, Jacobs Center, Room 372

    • Amy Hillman

      Feb 27, 2013

      Management & Organizations Colloquium

      Arizona State University
      10:30-12:00pm, Jacobs Center, Room 372

    • Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks

      Feb 13, 2013

      Management & Organizations Colloquium

      University of Michigan
      “Dangers in Misreading the Emotional Compositions of Collectives: The Effects of Emotional Aperture Errors”
      10:30-12:00pm, Jacobs Center, Room 372

    • Kathleen McGinn

      Nov 28, 2012

      Management & Organizations Colloquium

      Harvard Business School
      "An Outside-Inside Evolution in Gender and Professional Work"
      10:30am-12:00pm, Jacobs Center, Room 372

    • David DeSteno

      Nov 14, 2012

      Management & Organizations Colloquium

      Northestern University (Boston, MA)
      "Can I Trust You? Unlocking the Cues to Trust at Zero-Acquaintance"
      12:00-1:30pm, Jacobs Center, Room 372

    • Barry Goldman

      Nov 13, 2012

      Management & Organizations Colloquium

      University of Arizona
      "TBA"
      12:00-1:30pm, Jacobs Center, Room 372

    • Wesley Helms

      Nov 06, 2012

      Management & Organizations Colloquium

      Brock University
      "TBA"
      12:00-1:30pm, Jacobs Center, Room 372

    • Robert Frank

      Oct 31, 2012

      Management & Organizations Colloquium

      Cornell University
      "TBA"
      10:30am - 12:00pm, Jacobs Center, Room 372

    • Nelson Phillips

      Oct 29, 2012

      Management & Organizations/SION Colloquium

      Imperial College, London
      "Managing Legitimacy and Identity Following Association with a Stigmatized Other"
      12:00 - 1:30pm, Jacobs Center, Rm 166

    • Randall Collins

      Oct 17, 2012

      Management & Organizations Colloquium

      University of Pennslyvania
      "War on Friction: The Computerization of Military Organization"
      12:00-1:30pm, Jacobs Center, Room 372

    • Giacomo Negro

      Oct 10, 2012

      Management & Organizations Colloquium

      Emory University
      "Category Signaling and Reputation"
      12:00-1:30pm, Jacobs Center, Room 372

    • Theresa Vescio

      May 23, 2012

      Management & Organizations Colloquium Series

      Penn State University
      "TBA"
      12:00-1:30pm, Jacobs Center Room 372

    • Davide Ravasi

      May 16, 2012

      Management & Organizations Colloquium

      Universita Bocconi
      "TBA"
      12:00-1:30pm, Jacobs Center Room 372

    • Leslie McCall

      May 09, 2012

      Management & Organizations Colloquim Series

      Northwestern University
      "TBA"
      12:00-1:30pm, Jacobs Center Room 372

    • Iftikhar Hussain

      May 02, 2012

      IPR Performance Measurement Seminar

      London School of Economics
      "Subjective Performance Evaluation in the Public Sector: Evidence From School Inspections"
      3:30 - 5:00 pm, 617 Library Place IPR Conference Room

    • Katherine Milkman

      Apr 25, 2012

      Management & Organizations Colloquium Series

      University of Pennslyvania
      "Temporal Distance and Discrimination:  An Audit Study in Academia"
      12:00-1:30pm, Jacobs Center Room 372

    • Nick Epley

      Apr 18, 2012

      Management & Organizations Colloquium Series

      University of Chicago
      "TBA"
      12:00-1:30pm, Jacobs Center Room 372

    • Kate Kellogg

      Apr 11, 2012

      Management & Organizations Colloquium Series

      Massachusetts Institute of Technology
      "TBA"
      12:00-1:30pm, Jacobs Center Room 372

    • Charlene Zietsma

      Apr 04, 2012

      Management & Organizations Colloquium Series

      University of Victoria
      "After You've Created the Market, How Do You Make it Stick?"
      12:00-1:30pm, Jacobs Center Room 372

    • Elisabeth Clemens

      Mar 06, 2012

      SION Speaker Series

      Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago
      12:00 - 1:30pm, 303 Annenberg Hall

    • Susan Fiske

      Feb 29, 2012

      Management & Organizations Colloquium Series

      Princeton University
      "Envy Up, Scorn Down: How Status Divides Us"
      12:00-1:30pm, Jacobs Center Room G05

    • Anne Fleischer

      Feb 15, 2012

      Management & Organizations Colloquium Series

      University of Toronto, Rotman
      "Relative Performance and Category Membership: The Case of Equity Analysts"
      12:00-1:30pm, Jacobs Center Room 372

    • Joan Chaio

      Jan 18, 2012

      Management & Organizations Colloquium Series

      Northwestern University
      "At the Frontier of Cultural Neuroscience"
      12:00-1:30pm, Jacobs Center Room 387

    • Adam Grant

      Jan 17, 2012

      Management & Organizations Colloquium

      University of Pennslyvania - Wharton
      "Crafting Happiness: Sustainable Gains from Modifying Work and Self"
      10:30am - 12:00pm, Jacobs Center Rm 387

    • Paul Leonardi

      Dec 02, 2011

      SION Speaker Series

      Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University 
      "Car Crashes Without Cars: Simulation Technology and Organizational Change in Automotive Engineering"
      12:00 - 1:30pm, Room 303 Annenberg Hall

    • Elena Obukhova

      Nov 16, 2011

      Management & Organizations Colloquium Series

      Massachusetts Institute of Technology "TBA" 12:00-1:30pm, Jacobs Center Room 372

    • Frank Schweitzer

      Nov 16, 2011

      NICO Seminars

      Professor and Chair of Systems Design at ETH Zurich
      The next level of modeling social interaction: How to detect, quantify and utilize emotional influence
      12:00-1:00pm, Jacobs Center Room 276
      (Lunch at 11:30, Q&A 1:00-2:00pm)

    • Dovev Lavie

      Nov 10, 2011

      Management & Organizations Colloquium Series

      Israel Institute of Technology
      "Collaborating for Knowledge Creation and Application: The Case of Nanotechnology Research Centers"
      12:00-1:30pm, Jacobs Center Room 372

    • Danny Abrams

      Nov 02, 2011

      NICO Seminars

      Assistant Professor of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University
      "Modeling the decline of religion: do social networks matter?"
      12:00-1:00pm, Chambers Hall, Lower Level
      (Lunch at 11:30, Q&A 1:00-2:00pm)

    • Norbert Schwarz

      Nov 02, 2011

      Management & Organizations Colloquium Series

      Norbert Schwarz
      Nov 2, 2011
      University of Michigan
      "TBA"
      10:30 am - 12:00pm

    • Teppo Felin

      Oct 26, 2011

      Management and Organizations Colloquium Series

      Brigham Young University
       "A Social Theory of the Firm"
      12:00-1:30pm, Jacobs Center Room 372

    • Alex Bentley

      Oct 19, 2011

      NICO Seminars

      Professor of Anthropology and Archeology, University of Bristol, UK
      "Social influence and drift in collective behavior"
      12:00-1:00pm, Chambers Hall, Lower Level
      (Lunch at 11:30, Q&A 1:00-2:00pm)

    • Thomas Gilovich

      Oct 12, 2011

      Management & Organization Colloquium Series

      Cornell University
      "Intuition-Reason Conflicts"
      12:00-1:30pm, Jacobs Center Room 387

    • Vetle Torvik

      Oct 12, 2011

      NICO Seminars

      Assistant Professor of Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
      "Probabilistic identification of biomedical author-inventors across PubMed and USPTO"
      12:00-1:00pm, Chambers Hall, Lower Level
      (Lunch at 11:30, Q&A 1:00-2:00pm)

    • Aaron Clauset

      Oct 05, 2011

      NICO Seminars

      Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder
      "The large-scale and long-term dynamics of terrorism and civil wars"
      12:00-1:00pm, Chambers Hall, Lower Level
      (Lunch at 11:30, Q&A 1:00-2:00pm)

    • Cristian Dezso

      Jun 01, 2011

      Management & Organizations Colloquium Series

      University of Maryland
      "Like Daughter, Like Father: How Women's Wages Change When CEOs Have Daughters" 
      2:00-3:30pm, Jacobs Center Room 387

    • Forrest Briscoe

      May 11, 2011

      SION Speaker Series

      Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University
      "Sleight of Hand? Practice Opacity and the Diffusion of Corporate Cuts in Retiree Medical Benefits"
      12:00-1:30pm, Jacobs Center Room 165

    • Cameron Anderson

      May 04, 2011

      Management & Organizations Colloquium Series

      Berkeley
      "The Local Ladder Effect: Sociometric Status and Subjective Well Being"
      10:30am-12:00pm, Jacobs Center Room 387

    • Elke Weber

      Apr 13, 2011

      Management & Organizations Colloquium Series

      Columbia University
      "When Do We Want It? Now! A Query Theory and Neuroscience Account of Intertemporal Preference"
      12:00-1:30pm, Jacobs Center Room 387

    • Aks Zaheer

      Mar 02, 2011

      Management & Organizations Colloquium Series

      University of Minnesota
      "Explaining Network Performance: The Role of Network Hierarchy in Business Groups"
      10:30am-12:00pm, Jacobs Center Room 387