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