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Technology & Operations Management

TOM Seminars

The "TOM Seminar" is a weekly (Thursdays) seminar, where faculty, students, and guests from other institutions and departments can present their work-in-progress. Very often, the work has not yet been published, even as a working paper. This workshop is a wonderful opportunity to present fledgling work and benefit from the comments and suggestions of colleagues. Join us Thursdays, from 1-2:30 p.m. in Baker Library 102.

9/28/06 Michael Hammer (Hammer and Company)
The Process Approach to Operations
10/5/06 Andrew McAfee (HBS)
Is There Evidence that IT Matters?: Recent Changes in the Competitive Dynamics of US Industries and their Association with IT Intensity
10/12/06 Cheryl Druehl (University of Maryland)
Strategies for Encroaching on the Low End of Existing Markets
10/19/06 Lee Fleming (HBS)
Lone inventors as the source of breakthroughs: myth or reality?
10/26/06 Anita Tucker (Wharton)
Implementing New Practices: An Empirical Study of Organizational Learning in Hospital Intensive Care Units
11/2/06 Amy Edmondson (HBS)
Everyday Failures in Organizational Learning: Explaining the High Threshold for Speaking Up at Work
11/9/06Roger Bohn (UCSD)
Microstructure of human knowledge: Two centuries of evolution from craft toward science
11/16/06Vishal Gaur (Stern)
Hedging Demand Risk and Pricing Inventory Using Market Instruments
11/30/06 Garrett van Ryzin (Columbia)
When less is more: Strategic capacity rationing to induce early purchases
12/7/06 Charles Fine (HBS)
Value Chain Dynamics as an Operations Strategy Lens
12/14/06 Paul Adler (USC)
The Evolving Organization of Professional Work
1/11/07 Eric von Hippel (MIT)
Democratizing Innovation
1/18/07 Richard Nelson (Columbia)
On the Uneven Evolution of Human Know-how
1/25/07 Recruiting Seminar
2/1/07 Recruiting Seminar
2/8/07 Recruiting Seminar
2/15/07 Recruiting Seminar
2/22/07 Recruiting Seminar
3/1/07 Wesley Cohen & Henry Sauermann (Duke)
What makes them tick?--Employee motives and industrial innovation
3/8/07 Iain Cockburn (BU)
Entry, Exit and Patenting in the Software Industry
3/15/07 Marco Iansiti & David Brunner (HBS)
The Scalable Enterprise
3/22/07 Michael Toffel (HBS)
Coming clean--and cleaning up? Examining the effects of self-policing
3/29/07 Paul Robertson (Copenhagen Business School)
Identity, Meaning, and Community: The Non-verbal Interplay of Brain and Technology
4/5/07Dan Snow (HBS)
Capturing Benefits from Tomorrow's Technology in Today's Products
4/12/07Robert Huckman (HBS)
Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons from Cardiac Surgery
4/19/07Gary Pisano (HBS)
Restoring Our Competitive Edge: TOM Research at a Crossroad
4/26/07 Justin Ren (BU)
Evaluating Hospital Service Quality Using Measure-level Data
5/3/07 Karim Lakhani (HBS)
The Primacy of the Periphery in a Distributed Innovation System
5/10/07 Deishin Lee (HBS)
Using By-Product Synergy for Competitive Advantage
5/17/07Rob Austin (HBS)
Beyond "Art versus Industry": Developing a More Useful Set of Categories and Contingencies to Describe (and Guide) Innovative Work
Past Seminars