Organizational Behavior Seminars

Find seminars on organizational behavior that are open to Stanford GSB faculty and PhD students, or request permission to attend.

OB seminars are held on Wednesdays from 12:00 to 1:15 p.m., unless otherwise indicated. Stanford GSB faculty may also schedule a session to meet the speaker individually.

Spring 2025

Date & Time	Speaker	Title
Apr 09 12:00pm-1:15pm E247	Katherine DeCelles University of Toronto	Scale dichotomization reduces customer racial discrimination and income inequality joint paper with Tristan L. Botelho, Sora Jun and Demetrius Humes
Apr 16 12:00pm-1:15pm E247	Lionel Paolella University of Cambridge
Apr 23 12:00pm-1:15pm E247	Fiery Cushman Harvard University	Cognitive Foundations of Contractualist Morality Abstract
May 07 12:00pm-1:15pm E247	Dr Roman Trötschel Leuphana University
May 14 12:00pm-1:15pm E247	Scott Page University of Michigan
May 21 12:00pm-1:15pm E247	Elad Sherf University of North Carolina	The Fairness and Adoption of Threshold Lotteries in Organizational Selection Processes
May 28 12:00pm-1:15pm E247	2nd Year PhD Presentations
Jun 04 12:00pm-1:15pm E247	2nd Year PhD Presentations

Winter 2025

Date & Time	Speaker	Title
Feb 05 12:00pm-1:15pm E247	Ayelet Fishbach The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business	Navigating Multiple Goals
Feb 12 12:00pm-1:15pm E247	Feng Zhu Harvard Business School	Why Some Platforms Thrive and Others Don’t: A Research Agenda joint paper with Marco Iansiti Abstract
Feb 26 12:00pm-1:15pm E247	Sandra Matz Columbia University	Adaptive Personality Development Over the Lifespan of Technology Startups
Mar 12 12:00pm-1:15pm E247	Mo Wang University of Florida	Firm Performance and Executive Retirement: An Achievement Goal-based Perspective
Mar 19 12:00pm-1:15pm E247	Sudeep Bhatia University of Pennsylvania	Computational Analysis of 100K Choice Dilemmas: Decision Attributes, Tradeoff Structures, and Model-based Prediction joint paper with Simon van Baal, Feiyi Wang and Lukasz Walasek

Fall 2024

Date & Time	Speaker	Title
Oct 09 12:00pm-1:15pm E247	Jennifer Nelson University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	"Our Interests are Intertwined": How multiple organizational changes cascade across workplace hierarchy
Oct 16 12:00pm-1:15pm E247	Aparna Joshi University of Michigan	It’s not You, it’s Us: From Target to Observer-oriented Theorizing about Gender Bias in Leadership Settings Abstract
Oct 23 12:00pm-1:15pm E247	Vicky Chuqiao Yang The Sloan School of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Reconciling disparate findings in collective intelligence using model: Social influence in binary decision-making Abstract
Nov 06 12:00pm-1:15pm BC332	Matthew L. Stanley Duke University	The Consequences of Heroization for Exploitation joint paper with Aaron C. Kay Abstract
Nov 13 12:00pm-1:15pm B400	Emma Templeton Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Dartmouth College	Fast response times signal social connection in conversation joint paper with Luke J. Chang, Elizabeth A. Reynolds, Marie D. Cone LeBeaumont, and Thalia Wheatley Abstract
Nov 15 12:00pm-1:15pm E102	Eric Mercadante NYU Stern School of Business	How does it feel to be greedy? The role of pride in avaricious acquisition joint paper with Jessica L. Tracy Abstract
Nov 20 12:00pm-1:15pm G102	Laura Wallace Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago	Perpetuating disadvantage and distrust: When leaders avoid victims due to concerns about distrust joint paper with Ryan Bruno, Yena Kim, and Emma E. Levine Abstract
Dec 04 12:00pm-1:15pm E247	Natalia Vélez Princeton University	The rise and fall of technological development in virtual communities joint paper with Charlie M. Wu, Samuel J. Gershman and Eric Schulz

Seminar Organizers

Julien Clement

Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior

Ashley Martin

Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior