2023 annual meeting
The 2023 TOM Society Annual Meeting was organized by Anjali Bhatt, Carolyn Fu, Chengwei Liu, Marlo Raveendran, and Scott Ganz. The meeting was held in Boston, United States, and hosted by Anjali Bhatt and Carolyn Fu at Harvard University.
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EVENT PROGRAM
August 2, 2023
08:15 Shuttle from conference hotel to HBS
08:30-09:00 Breakfast
09:00-11:00 Welcome & Plenary Presentations
Stephan Billinger: Goalsetting in Organizations
Jon Atwell: Attention! Exploring the Relationship between the Structure of Organizational Attention and Decision-Making Success
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Plenary Presentations
Axel Zeijen & Luigi Marengo: Relative versus Absolute Aspirations
12:30-14:30 Lunch & Poster Session 1
Alexandros Gelastopoulos: Ranking-based social influence produces path-dependence
Arkadiy V. Sakhartov: Flexible resource allocation strategies: Resource redeployment and resource idling
Axel Zeijen: Technical and Organizational Fitness Landscapes
Carolyn Fu: Experimental Pas de Deux: Coupled Firm and Audience Learning at the Ballet
Jeho Lee: Winner-Take-All Battles Revisited: Influence Decay, Battle Duration, and Bargain-Then-Rip-Off Strategy
Jeroen Struben: Gender Inequality Dynamics: Women’s Participation and Performance in Competitive Chess in The Netherlands
Kariyushi Rao (with Liza Konovalova): The Relationship between Environmental Volatility and Optimal Experience Diversity for Wise Forecasting Crowds
Kramer Quist: Cultural Consensus and Deciding to Explore or Exploit
Nety Wu: The Role of Shaping in Competition under Uncertainty
Sungyong Chang: Role of Latecomers’ Imitation in Overtaking Industry Leaders under Schumpeterian Competition
14:30-16:30 Plenary Presentations
Scott Ganz: Subcoalition Cluster Analysis: A New Method for Modeling Conflict in Organizations
Amit Goldenberg: Discovering Learning Models from Human Behavior Using Bottom-Up Equation Detection
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break
17:00-18:00 Panel on Advances in Bridging Methods
Moderated by Carolyn Fu
Panelists: Julien Clement, Helge Klapper, Marlo Raveendran, Gael Le Mens
18:00-18:30 Break
18:30-20:00 Joint TOM Society & Summer School Dinner
20:00 Shuttle from HBS to conference hotel
August 3, 2023
08:15 Shuttle from conference hotel to HBS
08:30-09:00 Breakfast
09:00-11:00 Presentations of Summer School Group Projects
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Plenary Presentations
Cha Li: Understanding Risky Organizational Change: A First-Principles Approach
12:30-14:30 Lunch & Poster Session 2
Anthony Vashevko: The Matthew Effect as Skill and Strategy
Binglu Wang: Quantifying the Dynamics of Innovation Abandonment Across Scientific, Technological, Commercial, and Pharmacological Domains
Francisco Brahm: Cultural evolution models and models of organizations
Hagay Volvovsky: Learning What Cooperation Means
Helge Klapper: An Organizational Learning Model of Human-AI Interaction
Jaeho Choi: Hierarchy, Span of Control, and the Patterns of Firm Growth
Maximiliane Sachenbacher: Artificial Un-Intelligence meets behavioral organization: A computational model
Maciej Workiewicz: When Do Firms Learn By Hiring?
Timothy Folta: When to Burn Your Ships: A Simulation of Resource Redeployment with Oligopolistic Competition
14:30-16:30 Plenary Presentations
Sanghyun Park: A Generalized Model of Learning and Search: Traveling Landscapes of the Mind and Landscapes of the World
Veronica Cappelli: Scaling Behaviour in the Growth of Publicly Traded Companies: Evidence from USA and China
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break
17:00-18:00 Keynote Speaker
L Mahadevan: Emergent Function and Failure in Complex Systems: From social insects to aging/cancer
18:00-20:00 Cocktail Reception
20:00 Shuttle from HBS to conference hotel