The 2023 TOM PhD Summer School in Computational Organization Science was organized by Anjali Bhatt, Carolyn Fu, Chengwei Liu, Marlo Raveendran, and Scott Ganz. The Summer School was held virtually and in-person in Boston, United States. The in-person component was hosted by Anjali Bhatt and Carolyn Fu at Harvard.
Click the links below to access self-study materials from the 2023 Summer School.
Teachers: Anjali Bhatt, Carolyn Fu, Chengwei Liu, Marlo Raveendran and Scott Ganz
Time: 700 PDT / 1000 EDT / 1400 UTC [confirmed]
Opening slides from Chengwei (including the task for your first f2f session on 1 August)
Project Brainstorming Google Sheet
Teacher: Jerker Denrell
Time: 700 PDT / 1000 EDT / 1400 UTC [confirmed]
TA: Jaeho Choi, Axel Zeijen
Virtual office hours (830 PDT / 1130 EDT / 1530 UTC): Jaeho Choi
Teacher: Hazhir Rahmandad
Time: 700 PDT / 1000 EDT / 1400 UTC [confirmed]
TA: Kariyushi Rao
Teachers: Dan Levinthal and Maciej Workiewicz
Time: 900 PDT / 1200 EDT / 1600 UTC [confirmed]
TA: Axel Zeijen
Virtual office hours (1130 PDT /1430 EDT / 1830 UTC): Kariyushi Rao
Day 4 (July 20): Stochastic Models
Teacher: Chengwei Liu
Time: 700 PDT / 1000 EDT / 1400 UTC [confirmed]
Virtual office hours (830 PDT / 1130 EDT / 1530 UTC): Axel Zeijen, Kariyushi Rao
Day 5 (July 21): Game theoretic models
Teacher: Dennis Yao
Time: 700 PDT / 1000 EDT / 1400 UTC [confirmed]
Virtual office hours (830 PDT / 1130 EDT / 1530 UTC): Ekin Ilseven
Please finalize your groups for projects by EOD on the "final projects" tab on this spreadsheet: Project Brainstorming Google Sheet
Day 6 (July 24): Social influence
Teachers: Gael Le Mens
Time: 700 PDT / 1000 EDT / 1400 UTC [confirmed]
TA: Hui Sun
Slides from session & post-readings
Virtual office hours (830 PDT / 1130 EDT / 1530 UTC): Hui Sun
Day 7 (July 25): Information aggregation / Organizational design
Teachers: Thorbjorn Knudsen and Helge Klapper
Time: 700 PDT / 1000 EDT / 1400 UTC [confirmed]
Moderator: Scott Ganz
TA: Hui Sun, Jaeho Choi
Virtual office hours (830 PDT / 1130 EDT / 1530 UTC): Hui Sun
Day 8 (July 26): Resource redeployment
Teacher: Arkadiy Sakhartov
Time: 700 PDT / 1000 EDT / 1400 UTC [confirmed]
TA: Ekin Ilseven
Virtual office hours (830 PDT / 1130 EDT / 1530 UTC): Axel Zeijen
Day 9 (July 27): Garbage can model / Political decision making
Teacher: Scott Ganz
Time: 700 PDT / 1000 EDT / 1400 UTC [confirmed]
Day 10 (July 28): Conclusion of virtual component
Teacher: Helge Klapper & Julien Clement
Time: 830 PDT / 1130 EDT / 1530 UTC [confirmed]
TA: Ekin Ilseven
Virtual office hours (700 PDT / 1000 EDT / 1400 UTC): Ekin Ilseven
Aug 1-3: In person component
Asynchronous assignment for first session on Aug 1 with Jerker & Thorbjorn (the only prep for the in-person component, besides working on group projects): please read "Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning" (March, 1991), focusing on the first model on mutual learning, and prepare your answers to two questions.
Q1: Per the result of Figure 1, why is average knowledge highest when p1 is low and p2 is high? Why should not p2 be low also, or p2 low and p1 high?
Q2: What is the contribution of the first (mutual learning) model in March 1991 to the literature?
Group project presentations should be ~12m each (morning of Aug 3). We will have two sets of back-to-back presentations, each followed by a 15m Q&A.