HRLR Speaker Series

2024-2025 Schedule

Most seminars will be available in a hybrid format. Where noted, the in-person portion of the seminars will be held in room S133 South Kedzie Hall. All seminars will also be available via Zoom.

Please contact Jasmine Shi at shihuiji@msu.edu for Zoom meeting information.


Friday, January 31, 2025

12:00pm - 1:20pm ET | S133 South Kedzie Hall

J. Mijin Cha

J. Mijin Cha
Assistant Professor
Department of Environmental Studies
University of California, Santa Cruz

J. Mijin Cha's research and teaching interests are in the areas of climate justice, environmental justice, labor movements, and the intersection of labor and climate justice. Dr. Cha is a fellow at Cornell University's Worker Institute, where she works on the Labor Leading on Climate initiative. Her recent research is on "just transition," how to transition workers and communities equitably into a low-carbon future. Dr. Cha is on the board of the Center on Race, Poverty, and the Environment and a member of the California Bar.


Friday, February 7, 2025

12:00pm - 1:20pm ET | S133 South Kedzie Hall

Tingting Zhang

Tingting Zhang
Assistant Professor
School of Labor and Employment Relations
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

Dr. Zhang’s research within industrial relations focuses on the role of information communication technology (ICT), such as social media, in labor movements and union renewal. In employment relations, she studies various training and skill development mechanisms both within and outside organizations, examining how occupational regulation and the emergence of nondegree credentials influence the career outcomes of marginalized groups, including women and immigrants. Her work has been published in several scholarly journals, including British Journal of Industrial Relations, Industrial Relations Journal, International Migration Review, and International Journal of Training and Development.

Keywords: unions as organizations, social media communication and union renewal, occupational licensing.

Friday, March 14, 2025

12:00pm - 1:20pm ET | S133 South Kedzie Hall

Sofia Bapna

Sofia Bapna
Associate Professor and Lawrence fellow
Carlson School of Management
University of Minnesota

Dr. Bapna's research interests lie in the areas of digital platforms, entrepreneurship, and gender gaps. They stem from her experience as a female information technology professional as well as her experience as an entrepreneur in the digital economy. This background has resulted in two research streams. The first focuses on women’s under representation in STEM fields such as IT. Her work in this stream increases our understanding of the reasons underlying women’s under representation, identifies interventions to reduce gender gaps in representation, and identifies the effectiveness of legislation aimed at increasing women’s participation in the workforce. The second stream focuses on entrepreneurship in the digital economy. Her research in this stream increases our understanding of how entrepreneurs can be successful raising capital through crowdfunding and how they can grow their online brand communities. It also sheds light on the democratization of access to capital through crowdfunding by helping us understand how women and non-traditional user-entrepreneurs fare when raising capital through equity crowdfunding.


Friday, April 4, 2025

12:00pm - 1:20pm ET | S133 South Kedzie Hall

Elizabeth McClean

Elizabeth McClean
Associate Professor
SC Johnson Graduate School of Management
Cornell University


Friday, April 25, 2025

12:00pm - 1:20pm ET | S133 South Kedzie Hall

Mabel Abraham

Mabel Abraham
Barbara and Meyer Feldberg Associate Professor of Business
Columbia Business School
Columbia University

Mabel Abraham is the Barbara and Meyer Feldberg Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School and a faculty affiliate of the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics. She teaches the MBA elective course on Power, Influence, and Networks and PhD seminars on Organizational Theory. She earned her PhD and MS in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to academia, Professor Abraham worked in defined benefits consulting and risk management at Fidelity Investments.

Her research examines how organizational and network processes contribute to gender differences in economic outcomes. In one recent project, Professor Abraham compares the relative benefits received by male and female entrepreneurs through strategic social networks aimed at generating new clients. In other published and ongoing research, she examines what drives men and women to apply to jobs at different employers; how peer evaluation processes disadvantage women; and how educational status shapes gender pay inequality. Professor Abraham’s research has been published in leading academic journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, and Organization Science, and has been cited in several media outlets, including ABC, Bloomberg, Forbes and the Wall Street Journal. Abraham has also been recognized by leading scholarly associations for her research, including the American Sociological Association’s Best Published Paper Award, Wharton People Analytics Research Paper Competition, the Academy of Management’s Pondy Best Dissertation Paper Award, the INFORMS Dissertation Proposal Competition, the American Association of University Women American Fellowship, and the Kauffman Foundation Dissertation Fellowship.


Coming Soon

Lindred Greer

Lindred Greer
Professor for Management & Organizations & Michael R. and Mary Kay Hallman Fellow
Stephen M. Ross School of Business
University of Michigan

Lindred (Lindy) Greer is a Professor for Management & Organizations at Ross and the Faculty Director of the Sanger Leadership Center. Her research focuses on how to design and lead high-performing teams.

Lindy has published in management and psychology research outlets such as Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, Science, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. She has received awards for her research from the Academy of Management and American Psychological Association. She is Deputy Editor at Organization Science, has served as an Associate/Senior Editor at the Academy of Management Journal and Organization Science, on the boards of six of the top management and psychology journals, and on the boards of professional associations such as the International Association of Conflict Management and the Conflict Management Division of the Academy of Management.

Within her work with Michigan Ross Executive Education, she designs and runs c-suite and senior leadership development programs for some of the world's most influential companies. Dr. Greer has received numerous awards for her teaching and real-world impact on companies, including the Michigan Ross Executive Education Impact Award, Top 40 under 40 Business School Professors from Poets & Quants, and Top 30 Management Thinkers to Watch from Thinkers50 Radar. Example companies she has supported include Amazon, Carhartt, Ernst & Young, Exxon Mobil, General Motors, Google, KPMG, Life Time Fitness, the National Football League, Oracle, Sequoia Capital, United States Office of National Intelligence, Toyota, and Wabash.


 

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