Fall 2008 Schedule
Wednesdays from 3:30-5:00 pm

 
Seminars at the MIT location meet at the Sloan Building, E52-598.
Seminars at the Harvard location meet at 1550 William James Hall.

Sep 10th
MIT
Catherine Tucker, MIT
Juanjuan Zhang, MIT
How Does Popularity Information Affect Choices? Theory and A Field Experiment
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Sep 17th
Harvard
Ethan Mollick, MIT
The Firm as a Potemkin Village: Organizational and Compositional Factors in Firm Performance
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Sep 24th
MIT
Ted Gerber, Wisconsin
Getting Personal: Networks and Stratification in the Russian Labor Market, 1985-2001
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Oct 1st
Harvard
Sim Sitkin, Duke
Aspirational Goals: Theoretical and Empirical Work on Raising Aspirations at the Individual and Organizational Levels of Analysis
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Oct 8th
MIT
Matt Jackson, Stanford
An Economic Model of Friendship Formation: Homophily, Minorities and Segregation
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Oct 15th
Harvard
Lauren Rivera, Harvard
Cultural Reproduction in the Labor Market: Homophily in Hiring
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Oct 22nd
MIT
Catherine Turco, Harvard
'Big Swinging Dicks': The Cultural Foundations of Tokenism in the Leveraged Buyout Industry
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Oct 29th
Harvard
John-Paul Ferguson, MIT
Space Invaders: Categories, Valuation and Union Organizing Drives, 1961—1999
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Nov 5th
MIT
Elizabeth Pontikes, Chicago
TBA
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Nov 12th
Harvard
Eva Boxenbaum, Copenhagen Business School
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Nov 19th
MIT
Yanbo Wang, MIT
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Dec 3rd
Harvard
Jason Greenberg, MIT
The Networks Don't Lie: Variations in Social Relationships as a Basis for Differentiating Self-employment, Business Ownership, and Various Types of Entrepreneurship
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Dec 10th
MIT
Greta Hsu, UC Davis
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About the Seminar
Inaugurated at the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1997, the Economic Sociology Seminar aims to be the home for cutting-edge economic sociology in the greater Boston social science research community. Since 2003, the seminar has been jointly run by faculty from the Sloan School's Economic Sociology Program and the Harvard Department of Sociology. Meeting at MIT and Harvard in alternating weeks during the academic year, presenters and participants represent a diverse array of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches. What we share is a commitment to engage the array of research that has recently come under the heading of economic sociology and thereby to improve upon existing models of organizations, markets, and other key economic institutions.

Other Related Seminars and
Workshops in Town
MIT-Harvard Economics of Organizations Workshop
Cambridge Colloquium on Complexity and Social Networks
MIT Institute for Work and Employment Research (IWER) Research Seminar
MIT Organization Studies Group (OSG) Research Seminar
MIT Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E) Seminar
Harvard Culture and Social Analysis (CSA) Workshop
Harvard Business School Organizational Behavior (OB) Seminar
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