The proseminar is designed to introduce first-year PhD students to faculty research on organizational behavior and organizations and to provide a forum for students to ask faculty how to navigate the various stages of the research process. Faculty members in the division will present one of their own papers and hold a ‘behind the scenes’ discussion of the production process. These stages include finding a research problem, operationalizing the questions posed, research design, data collection, and writing a journal article or dissertation proposal.

Sandra Matz

David W. Zalaznick Associate Professor of Business

Sandra Matz takes a Big Data approach to studying human behavior in a variety of business-related domains. She combines methodologies from psychology and computer science – including machine learning, experimental designs, online surveys, and field studies – to explore the relationships between people’s psychological characteristics (e.g. their personality) and the digital footprints they leave with every step they take in the...

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