DRRC's Postdoc Alumni Event

DRRC associates chatting in the Global Hub

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Date

August 8, 2024 
7:30 am–10:00 pm CDT

Location

Kellogg Global Hub, Room 5101
2211 Campus Drive 
Evanston, Illinois

How to Register

Registration is now closed.

Parking

Attendees should park in the North (2311 N Campus Drive) campus parking garage; parking passes will be provided.

The DRRC invites our postdoctoral fellow alumni to return to Evanston for a day of networking and collaboration with fellow DRRC postdoc alumni. Whether you’re in academia or industry, we welcome you to attend and reconnect with the DRRC and its affiliates. We will have research talks, a discussion of post-DRRC career paths, and plenty of opportunities to socialize. We look forward to seeing you!

AGENDA

7:30 am–8:15 am
Morning Walk by the Lake (early birds)

8:15 am–8:45 am
Breakfast and Registration

8:45 am–9:15 am
Welcome and State of the DRRC
Cynthia Wang, Clinical Professor  and Executive Director of the DRRC, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University

9:15am–10:30 am              
Research Talks I: Reputation, Trust, Power

How reputation does (and does not) drive people to punish without looking
Jillian Jordan, Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School

Reputation and decision making
Charles Dorison, Assistant Professor, McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University

How power shapes trust development
Marlon Mooijman, Assistant Professor, Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University

10:30 am–10:45 am
Break

10:45am–12:00 pm
Research Talks II: Diversity, Agreement, Group Dynamics

Ingroup dissent
Victoria Parker, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, DRRC, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University

The paradox of wishing for both cognitive diversity and agreement
Rick Larrick, Professor, Fuqua School of Business at Duke University

Maintaining the majority: Different processes at different levels of organizations
Christopher Bauman, Professor, Paul Merage School of Business at University of California, Irvine

12:00 pm–1:00 pm Lunch and Networking

1:00 pm–2:00 pm               
After the Postdoc: Alumni Career Paths

Research at Slack: Bridging the industry-academia divide
Dylan Wiwad, Sr. Quantitative Researcher, Slack | Salesforce

Working in academia in the U.S. and abroad
William Maddux, Professorr, Kenan-Flagler Business School at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Working in academia, on and off tenure track
Michelle L. Buck, Clinical Professor, Kellogg School of Management

2:00 pm–2:15 pm               
Break

2:15 pm–3:30 pm Research Talks III: Ethics, Representation, Influence

Now, women do ask: A call to update beliefs about the gender pay gap
Laura Kray, Professor, Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley

Here’s something you won’t forget: The power of legacies
Kimberly Wade-Benzoni, Professor, Fuqua School of Business at Duke University

Honesty among lawyers and law students: Moral character and truthful disclosures in negotiations
Taya Cohen, Professor, Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University

3:30 pm–3:45 pm Break

3:45 pm–4:15 pm Presenting Research—At a Conference, Popular Talk, and in the Classroom
Adam Galinsky, Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Professor, Columbia Business School

4:15 pm–4:45 pm
Final Thoughts, Evaluation, and Group Picture
“What were your favorite memories when you were at the DRRC?”

4:45 pm–5:45 pm               
Reception

5:45 pm
Depart for Dinner in Downtown Chicago