Delta Seminars are held on select Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:30 to 2:00 pm at the Newman Vertical Campus (exceptions will be noted). For inquiries related to speakers in strategy, innovation, and entrepreneurship, please contact Xinran (Joyce) Wang, and for inquiries related to speakers in OBHR and sustainability, please reach out to Matthew Perrigino.

TALK_Date	Room	SPEAKER	AFFILIATION	TALK_TITLE
2025
Fall 2025	TBD	PK Toh	UT Austin	TBD
Fall 2025	TBD	Wei Shi	Miami	TBD
11-Sep-25	TBD	Jonathan Bundy	ASU	TBD
24-Apr-25	9-215	Timothy Pollock	Tennessee	The American Idol Next Door: Conforming Behavior, Media Attention and Achieving Celebrity
27-Mar-25	12-223	Michael Jensen	Michigan	Zigzagging to the Top? The Effects of Category Erraticism on Status Mobility in the U.S. Venture Capital Industry
4-Mar-25	9-215	Evan Rawley	UConn	Artificial Intelligence, Alliances, and Innovation
27-Feb-25	9-130	Darryl B. Rice	Miami University, Ohio	Understanding How and When Despotic Leaders Trigger Workplace Hazing
2024
3-Dec-24	9-210	Gino Cattani	NYU Stern	The Influence of Identity Salience and Language on the Evaluation of Outsider-driven Novelty
29-Oct-24	13-145	Razvan Lungeanu	Northeastern	Eyes on the Ball: Activist Campaigns and Management’s Response at the Operational Level
8-Oct-24	9-210	Thomas Donaldson	Wharton	The square peg; why intrinsic values won’t fit management models
30-Sep-24	Virtual	Shaun Pichler	California State, Fullerton	Employee Age and the Work-Family Interface: A Meta-analysis and Framework Integrating Life Span and Life Course Perspectives
19-Sep-24	9-215	Michael Barnett	Rutgers	Toward an understanding of the gray areas of greening
20-Feb-24	14-235	Aks Zaheer	Minnesota	Overcoming the Liability of Gender? Inventor Networks and Disruptive Innovation
7-Mar-24	14-235	Rajshree Agarwal	Maryland	Technology (Non-)Emergence: The Role of System (Mis-)Alignment in Alternative Solar Technology Trajectories
2-Apr-24	14-235	Victor Ray	Iowa	Racialized Burdens: Applying Racialized Organization Theory to the Administrative State
2-May-24	14-235	Anthony Nyberg	USC	You Are Who You Work With: The Influence of Social Context on Newcomer Productivity During Early Socialization
2023
7-Mar-23	Virtual	Richard Kopelman	Baruch	A Unique Approach to Improving Organizational Performance: The Cube One Framework
16-Mar-23	14-245	Chia-Jung Tsay	UCL/Wisconsin-Madison	A Premium on Perceived “Naturalness”: Contradictions to Our Ideals of Fairness and Meritocracy
28-Mar-23	14-230	Jeff McMullen	Indiana	Real Growth through Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness: Insights on the Entropy Problem from Andy Weir’s The Martian
30-Mar-23	14-235	Clint Chadwick	Kansas	Exploring Strategic HRM in SMEs
2-May-23	14-245	Alfred Marcus	Minnesota	Reinvention: Tales of Four Companies’ Decline and Renewal
9-May-23	14-245	Samina Karim	Northeastern	Reconfiguration Through Acqui-Hires: Redeployment and Retention of Human Capital Post-Acquisition
16-May-23	Virtual	Rajshree Agarwal	Maryland	Cancelled – rescheduled to SP24
5-Oct-23	Field Center	Jessica Kennedy	Vanderbilt	Cancelled – rescheduled to SP24
17-Oct-23	9-215	Mahka Moeen	Wisconsin-Madison	Entrepreneurial Origins and Strategies: Unpacking Knowledge Integration in Academic and Employee Startups
3-Nov-23	9-215	David “DK” Kryscynski	Rutgers SMLR	Empirically Exploring the Veracity of the New Stakeholder Perspective in Strategy: Documenting Workforce Rents
4-Dec-23	9-215	Timothy Werner	UT-Austin	Better Safe than Sorry: Financial Activism and the Deterrence Effect of Democratic Politician Shareholders
2022
24-Feb-22	14-230	Andrew Corbett	Babson	The Development of an Entrepreneurial Mindset
3-Mar-22	Virtual	Russ Coff	Wisconsin	Manipulating Perceptions of Asset Specificity in Alliances: A Microfoundational Approach to Designing Governance Structures (with Libby Weber)
8-Mar-22	14-230	Sara Jespersen	Copenhagen Business School	Exploring the issue-based field for responsible corporate tax practice
31-Mar-22	14-230	Shad Morris	BYU	Human Resource Governance Within a Workforce Ecosystem
12-Apr-22	Virtual	Norm Bishara	Michigan	The Evolving Future of Noncompetes and Employee Mobility Law
3-May-22	Virtual	Deepak Somaya	Illinois UC	External Knowledge Sourcing and Employee Mobility Barriers
10-May-22	Virtual	Grazia Santangelo	Copenhagen Business School	Investor response to the appointment of female CEOs – An international stakeholder perspective (with Karin Hoisl, Mona Reber and Wolf-Hendrik Uhlbach)
2021
2-Mar-21	Virtual	Navid Asgari	Fordham	Divestment of Relational Assets Following Acquisitions: Evidence from the Bio-Pharmaceutical Industry
11-Mar-21	Virtual	Gideon Markman	Colorado State	TBD
6-Apr-21	Virtual	Andrew Nelson	Oregon	Back to the Future: Technology Reemergence through the Lens of Music Synthesizers
15-Apr-21	Virtual	Danielle Warren	Rutgers	Don’t just trust your gut: the importance of normative deliberation to ethical decision-making at work
20-Apr-21	Virtual	Andrew King	Boston U	The use of model uncertainty analysis in evaluating the relationship between corporate social and financial performance
27-Apr-21	Virtual	Baruch College PhD Students (Part 1)
4-May-21	Virtual	Baruch College PhD Students (Part 2)
5-Oct-21	Virtual	Rocio Bonet	IE Business School	Workers on Demand? Effects of On-Demand Schedules on Employee Absenteeism and Patient Dissatisfaction in a Home Healthcare Organization
9-Nov-21	Virtual	Brent Goldfarb	Maryland	Using Historical Methods to Improve Abduction and Inference to the Best Explanation in Strategy
18-Nov-21	Virtual	John Mawdsley	HEC Paris	A Competitive-Based Explanation for Gender Diversity: The Role of Potential Buyers
30-Nov-21	Virtual	Baruch College Senior PhD Students
7-Dec-21	Virtual	Frank Wijen	Erasmus	Intradomain Decoupling: Tradeoffs in the Chinese Government’s Environmental Policy
2020
4-Feb-20	9-215	Matthew Lee	NYU Stern	Community-Mediated Exchange and Collective Loan Defaults in Microfinance: Evidence from Indian Demonetization
27-Feb-20	9-215	Matt Marx	Boston U	Fake It ‘Til You Make It: Venture Failure, Scandal, and Employee Careers
31-Mar-20		Heather Vough	George Mason	Cancelled due to COVID-19 – rescheduled to Sept. 2020
21-Apr-20		Evan Starr	Maryland	Cancelled due to COVID-19 – rescheduled to Nov. 2020
30-Apr-20	Virtual	Diane Gibson and Shirley Liu	New York Research Data Center (NYRDC)	Outreach and Overview of the NYRDC (Use and access of Census data)
5-May-20		Danielle Warren	Rutgers	Cancelled due to COVID-19 – will be rescheduled, hopefully SP2021
22-Sep-20	Virtual	Heather Vough	George Mason	I am and I am not: Founders’ responses to the multiple meanings of ‘entrepreneur’
8-Oct-20	Virtual	Marketa Rickley	UNC Greensboro	From individual microfoundations to team emergence: How does international experience in top management teams affect foreign subsidiary performance?
13-Oct-20	Virtual	Faculty “Brown Bag”	Baruch College	Ivan Montiel – Should I stay or should I go? Theorizing on private standard decertification Elena Vidal – Divestitures and New Product Development: Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry
3-Nov-20	Virtual	Catherine Magellsen	LBS	Knowledge Flows and Contracting for Innovation within Firms
10-Nov-20	Virtual	Evan Starr	Maryland	Subjective Beliefs about Contract Enforceability
17-Nov-20	Virtual	Ovul Sezer	UNC Kenan Flagler	Hiding Succcess
2019
28-Feb-19	9-215	Ruth Aguilera	Northeastern U	Complements or Substitutes? A Configurational Comparative Examination of Anti-takeover Provisions and CSR
21-Mar-19	9-215	Rebecca Kehoe	Rutgers U	An Expanded Conceptualization of Line Managers’ Involvement in Human Resource Management
4-Apr-19	9-215	Daniel Keum	Columbia U	Sibling Rivalry: Zero-Sum Dynamics of Managerial Power and Firm Value in Business Groups
7-May-19	9-215	Andreas Polk	Berlin SCEL	Determinants of Water Prices in Germany
26-Sep-19	9-215	Nilanjana Dutt	Bocconi U	Learning to Manage Breadth: The Effect of Experience in US Toxic Waste Management
10-Oct-19	9-215	Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra	Northeastern U	State-owned Multinationals
7-Nov-19	9-215	Eun-Hee Kim	Fordham U	Are Financially Transparent Firms Environmentally Transparent Too?  Sustainability Materiality and Its Impact on Idiosyncratic Volatility
21-Nov-19	9-215	Oana Branzei	Ivey BS	Place-based organizing
2018
15-Feb-18	14-240	Rajeev Sawant	Baruch College	New Product Production as Firm Risk-taking and its Effect on Firm Performance
14-Mar-18	14-280	John Amis	U of Edinburgh	Image, Emotion, and the Framing of the European Migration Crisis
12-Apr-18	14-270	Robert Phillips	York U,  Canada	Stakeholder Friction
3-May-18	14-270	Caroline Flammer	Boston U	Corporate Green Bonds
4-Oct-18	9-215	Josep A. Tribó-Giné	Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain	Not Walking the Talk? Divergence of Interests between Organizations and their Leaders in Impression Management Following Controversial Business Activities
8-Nov-18	9-215	Shweta Gaonkar	Johns Hopkins U	In the Shadows: The Spinout Network and Firm Performance
6-Dec-18	9-215	Glen W.S. Dowell	Cornell U	Game of Transparency: The Role of Local Communities in Corporate Environmental Disclosure Strategy
2017
20-Sep-17	14-245	Jone Pearce	UC Irvine	A Theory of Workplace Favoritism
9-Nov-17	14-240	Jeffery S. McMullen	Indiana U	Social Entrepreneurship and the Development Paradox of Prosocial Motivation: A Cautionary Tale
2016
17-Oct-16	14-240	Michele Kacmar	Texas State U	Perceptions of Organizational Politics
20-Oct-16	14-240	Robert Vandenberg	U of Georgia	Advancing the Revolution with a Solution: A Call to A.R.M.S
7-Nov-16	14-240	Denyse Lewin Loyd	U of Illinois, UC	When an Out-Group Member Brings Us Together: How Status Influences Information Sharing between Disagreeing In-Group Members
10-Nov-16	14-240	Sinziana Dorobantu	NYU	Valuing Stakeholder Governance: Property Rights, Stakeholder Mobilization and the Value of Community Benefits Agreements