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Technology & Operations Management

TOM Seminars 2004-2005 Speakers

9/29 Kamalini Ramdas (Darden)
The Impact of Component Sharing on Quality: An Empirical Study in the Automotive Industry
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10/06 Abraham Seidmann (Rochester)
Optimal Design of Online Auctions
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10/13 Charlie Fine (MIT)
Value Chain Roadmapping.
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10/20 Jeff Furman (BU)
Climbing Atop the Shoulders of Giants: The Impact of Institutions on Cumulative Research
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10/27 Francesca Gino & Gary Pisano (HBS)
R&D Portfolio Strategy and Performance: A Behavioral Model
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11/03 Arthur De Vany (UCI)
Hollywood Economics: Dealing with 'Wild' Uncertainty in the Movies and Pharmaceuticals.
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11/10 Erik Brynjolfsson (HBS)
Information Worker Productivity: Task-level Evidence
11/17 Lorin Hitt (Wharton)
IT and Product Variety: Evidence from Panel Data
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12/01 Jayashankar  Swaminathan (UNC)<
Pricing, Demand and Inventory Management in Retail Operations
12/08 Gerard Cachon (Wharton)
In search of the bullwhip effect
12/15 Linda Argote (Carnegie Mellon)
Organizational Learning The Effects of Individual, Team and Organizational Experience on Performance Outcomes.
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01/13 David Scharfstein (HBS)
Organizational Scope and Investment Evidence from the Drug Development Strategies of Biopharmaceutical Firms.
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01/20 Darren Zinner (HBS)
Does Focus Really Improve Operational Performance? Lessons from the Management of Clinical Trials
01/27 Recruiting Candidate
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02/03 Kira Markiewicz-Fabrizio (Berkeley) 
Absorptive Capacity and Innovation: Evidence from Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Firms
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02/10 Gad Allon (Columbia) 
02/17 Recruiting Seminar
02/24 Alan Hyde (Rutgers
Knowledge Diffusion through Employee Mobility: Do We Know Enough to Make Policy on Trade Secrets and Covenants Not to Compete?
03/03 Michael Cusumano (MIT)
03/10 Siobhan O'Mahony (HBS)
Managing the Boundary of an Open Project
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03/24 Dean Keith Simonton (UCD)
Creativity and Leadership: How Much Are They Similar? How Much Are They Different?
03/31 Rob Austin (HBS)
04/07 Bill Barnett (Stanford)
The Red Queen, Success Bias, and Organizational Inertia
04/14 Zeynep Ton (HBS)
Managing the Impact of Employee Turnover on Performance: The Role of Process Conformance
04/21 Uday Karmarkar (UCLA)
Service Industrialization and the Global Information Economy
04/28 Stephen Barley (Stanford)
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