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On the Beginning of a New Beginning:
Connecting with a Collective Mind in Form Emergence
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Saturday, Aug 8 2015
6:00PM - 8:30PM
Vancouver Convention Centre Rooms #217,218,219
Presenter
Eric Abrahamson
Eric Abrahamson is the Hughie E. Mills Professor of Business Management at Columbia Business School. He studies the creation, spread, use and rejection of innovative techniques for managing organizations and their employees. He is best known for his work on fads and fashions in management techniques. He is also an expert on the management of organizational change. More recently, professor Abrahamson has been studying the dynamics of moderately messy system - offices, organizations and even industrial districts - that would function less well were they any less messy or any more orderly.
Discussant
​Paul Hirsch
Paul Hirsch is the James L. Allen Professor of Strategy & Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He has written extensively about careers and organizational change. He was among the first to anticipate and write on widespread changes in the employment relationship stemming from corporate mergers and continuing on through the present. Professor Hirsch's recent work has also focused on policy and ethical issues raised by the mortgage meltdown. He has also written extensively about culture and mass communication.
Discussant
Karim Lakhani
Karim Lakhani is an Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He specializes in the management of technological innovation in firms and communities. His research is on distributed innovation systems and the movement of innovative activity to the edges of organizations and into communities. He has studied the emergence of open source software communities and their unique innovation and product development strategies. He has also investigated how critical external knowledge can be accessed through innovation contests.
Presenter
Steven Kahl
Steven Kahl is an Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. His areas of expertise are Organizational theory, organizational change, innovation, and social cognition. Professor Kahl's research examines how new markets emerge through sociological and cognitive perspectives, and how markets come to understand new firms and innovations through historically grounded content and discursive analysis.
Discussant
Walter Powell
Walter (Woody) Powell is Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Sociology, Organizational Behavior, Management Science and Engineering, Communication, and Public Policy at Stanford University. He works in the areas of organization theory, economic sociology, and the sociology of science. Professor Powell's current research focuses on knowledge transfer across organizations, the role of networks in facilitating or hindering innovation, and the manner in which institutions codify ideas and practices.
Presenter (& Organizer)
Sorah Seong
Sorah Seong is a third-year doctoral candidate in Management at INSEAD. Previously, she studied Sociology at Harvard College (BA) and Theory and History of International Relations at LSE (MSc). Her current research lies at the nexus of organizational theory, entrepreneurship, and strategy with particular emphasis on innovation, meaning, identity and identification, form emergence, and creativity.
Presenter
Henning Piezunka
Henning Piezunka is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at INSEAD. His research is on how organizations organize to innovate. Specifically, he examines how organizations select ideas and manage relationships with partners. Professor Piezunka also co-founded a web company that serves clients in more than 80 countries (including the German Chambers of Commerce and the Federal Ministry for the Environment).
