2004 Recruitment Seminars:

Friday, January 23, 2004
Room 151, Rotman School, 10:30pm to 12:00pm
SPEAKER: Gary Dushnitsky, New York University
TOPIC: Limitations to Inter-Organizational Knowledge Acquisition: The Paradox of Corporate Venture Capital

Monday, January 26, 2004
CIBC Room, Rotman School, 10:30pm to 12:00pm
SPEAKER: Waverly Ding, University of Chicago
TOPIC: Why Do For-Profit Firms Adopt Open Science? Assessing the Impact of Founder Imprinting, Niche Crowding and Competitor Influence

Wednesday, January 28, 2004
Room 157, Rotman School, 10:00pm to 11:30pm
SPEAKER: Andrew vonNordenflycht, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
TOPIC: Is Public Ownership Bad for Professional Service Firms? A Study of U.S. Advertising Agencies

Friday, January 30, 2004
Room 151, Rotman School, 10:30pm to 12:00pm
SPEAKER: Sarah Kaplan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
TOPIC: Framing Contests: Micro Mechanisms of Strategy-Making in the Face of Technical Change

Wednesday, February 4, 2004
Room 127, Rotman School, 1:30pm to 3:00pm
SPEAKER: Matthew Bidwell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
TOPIC: What Do Firms Do Differently? Comparing the Governance of Internal and Outsourced IT Projects

Friday, February 6, 2004
Room 151, Rotman School, 12:30pm to 2:00pm
SPEAKER: Tim Simcoe, University of California at Berkeley
TOPIC: Committtees and the Creation of Technical Standards

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