WTO Colloquium 2023-2024 Speakers
Oct 10 - Ya-Wen Lei
Ya-Wen Lei is Professor in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. She is also affiliated with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard. Trained in both law and sociology, she holds a LL.M. and a J.S.D. from Yale Law School and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Michigan.
Nov 7 - David Stark
David Stark is Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology at Columbia University where he directs the Center on Organizational Innovation. Stark uses a variety of methods to study problems of valuation, innovation, and observation.
Dec 5 - Batia Wiesenfeld
Batia Wiesenfeld, Andre J.L. Koo Professor of Management, is also the Director of the Business and Society Program at New York University’s Stern School of Business. She is an expert on the effective management of organizational change across industries and sectors.
Jan 30 - Brayden King
Brayden King is the Max McGraw Chair of Management and the Environment and a professor of Management and Organizations. He is also affiliated with the Department of Sociology. Professor King's research focuses on how social movement activists influence corporate social responsibility, organizational change, and legislative policymaking. Professor King is an expert on the impact of boycotts and the consequences of employee and shareholder activism.
Feb 13 - Julie Battilana
Julie Battilana is the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School and the Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School, where she is also the founder and faculty chair of the Social Innovation and Change Initiative.
WTO Colloquium 2022-2023 Speakers
Nov 28 - Marion Fourcade
Marion Fourcade is a French sociologist. She is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is known for her work on the sociology and history of the field of economics, as well as her work on digital society and digital economy.
Dec 5 - Katherine Klein
Katherine Klein is an American organizational psychologist. Her research covers issues related to employee stock ownership, innovation and technology implementation, leadership, diversity, teams, and social networks, as well as methodological considerations related to multilevel organizational theory and research.
Jan 30 - Scott Sonenshein
Scott Sonenshein is the Henry Gardiner Symonds Professor at the Jesse H. Jones School of Business, Rice University. He is an organizational psychologist that primarily uses field methodologies to examine questions around work and organizations.
Feb 13 - Beth A. Bechky
Beth A. Bechky is the Stephen G. Newberry Chair in Leadership at the Graduate School of Management University of California, Davis. An organizational ethnographer, she explores the ongoing interplay of occupations and new technologies at work.
Feb 27 - Pamela Tolbert
Professor Tolbert is the Lois S. Gray Professor of ILR and Social Sciences, and department chair in the Department of Organizational Behavior at Cornell University. She is broadly interested in processes of organizational change, culture and entrepreneurship, and organizational practices and social inequality.
April 17 - Susan Ashford
Susan (Sue) Ashford is and award-winning scholar and Professor at the University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business. Sue’s passion for helping people to be maximally effective in their work lives has driven her teaching and research work on self-management, proactivity, change from below, and leadership and its development.
May 1 - Adia Harvey Wingfield
Adia Harvey Wingfield is the Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor of Arts & Sciences and Vice Dean for Faculty Development and Diversity at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research examines how and why racial and gender inequality persists in professional occupations.
May 1 - Karim Lakhani
Karim R. Lakhani is a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. He is the principal investigator of the Crowd Innovation Lab at the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science. His research and teaching focuses on open and user innovation.