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Technology & Operations Management

TOM Seminars - 2003-2004 Speakers

9/25Peter Thompson (Carnegie Mellon)
"Selection and Firm Survival. Evidence from the Shipbuilding Industry, 1825-1914"
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10/2Brian Uzzi (Kellogg)
"Do Small Worlds Make Big Differences? Artist Networks and the Success of Broadway Musicals, 1945 -1989"
info available upon request
10/9Andy McAfee (HBS)
"Information Technology and Industry Concentration:  Evidence and Explanations"
10/16 Roberto Verganti (Politecnico di Milano)
"The Design Discourse." Brokering of knowledge on design languages and the role of local resources in the Italian Design System
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10/23Peter Cebon (Melbourne)&
Geoff Love (Univ of IL)
"Not by Conformity Alone: Management Consultants' Influence on Adoption Behavior and Performance"
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10/30Andrea Prencipe (Sussex)
"Managing Modularity in Complex Systems Industries"
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11/06Garrett van Ryzin (Columbia)
"The Theory and Practice of Revenue Management"
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11/13Jasjit Singh (HBS)
"Multinational Firms and International Knowledge Diffusion: Evidence using Patent Citation Data."
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11/20Lee Fleming (HBS)
"Penguins, Camels, and Other Birds of a Feather The Emergence of Leaders in Open Innovation Communities"
12/04Steve Spear (HBS)
"Inherent and avoidable factors contributing to errors in complex systems: A case study of hospital nursing"
info available upon request
12/11Michael Beer (HBS)
"Why Total Quality Management Programs Do Not Persist: The Role of Management Quality and Implications for Leading a TQM Transformation"
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12/18Sean Nicholson (Wharton)
"Physician Learning and Best Practice Adoption: An Application to Cesarean Sections."
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01/08Todd R. Zenger (Olin)
"A Knowledge-based Theory of Governance Choice—A Problem-solving Approach"
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01/15Pranab Majumder (Duke)
"Asset-Specific Supply Tree Competition and Leadership"
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01/29Daniel Snow (Berkeley)
"Extraordinary Efficiency Growth in Response to New Technology Entries The Carburetor's "Last Gasp""
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02/05Saikat Chaudhuri (HBS)
"Can Innovation Be Bought? Managing Acquisitions in Dynamic Environments"
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02/12Neveen Farag Awad (Michigan)
"Online Retailer Service: IT Features and Price Dispersion"
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02/19Sarah Kaplan (MIT)
"Framing contests: micro mechanisms of strategy-making in the face of technical change"
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02/20
Fri.		Deishin Lee (Stanford)
(12-1:30 pm in Cumnock 220)
"Compatibility or Fit? Pricing and Adoption of Incompatible Technologies Under Network Effects"
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02/24
Tues.		David Fitoussi(MIT)
(3-4:30 pm in Cumnock 230)
"So Close and Yet So Far: Information Technology and the Spatial Distribution of Work"
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03/04Lee Fleming (HBS)
"Why the Valley Went First: Agglomeration and Emergence in Regional Inventor Networks"
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03/11Rob Huckman & Zeynep Ton (HBS)
"The Impact of Labor Turnover on the Performance of Routine Tasks: Evidence from Retail Stores"
03/18Vishal Gaur (NYU) 
"Retail Inventory Productivity: Analysis and Benchmarking"
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03/25Francesca Gino (HBS)
"Information: when less is more"
04/01Frances Frei (HBS)
"Managing Service Operations Research and Course Development"
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04/15Richard Rosenbloom (HBS)
"Creative Destruction in the IT industries 1940-1990"
04/22Noel Watson (HBS)
"Behavioral Dynamics in Supply Chain Management"
04/29Vish Krishnan (UT, Austin)
"A Product Design-Driven Approach to Managing Rapid Sequential Innovation"
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05/06Charles Weber (Portland)
(Cumnock 220)
"Learning Leverage under Time-to-Market Pressure"
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05/13Tarun Khanna (HBS)
(Cumnock 220)
Special Seminar on China
05/20Marie Thursby (DuPree)
(Cumnock 220)
"Shirking, Shelving, and Sharing Risk: The Role of University License Contracts"
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Past Seminars