Research Brown Bags Series

Julie Battilana, Ph.D. — Dr. Julie Battilana is also the founder and faculty chair of the Social Innovation + Change Initiative. Professor Battilana's research examines the politics of change in organizations and in society. She’s especially focused on organizations and individuals that initiate and implement changes that diverge from the taken-for-granted norm—that break with the status quo. She is the author of two books: “Power, for All: How it Really Works and Why It’s Everyone’s Business” (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2021) and “Democratize Work: The Case for Reorganizing the Economy” (University of Chicago Press, 2022, originally published in French by Le Seuil, 2020).

• Type: Research Domain Talk
• Topic: TBD
• When: October 24th, 2025
• Where: On Zoom. 
• Recording: TBD

Wendy W. Moe, Ph.D. — Dr. Wendy Moe holds concurrent appointments as Dean’s Professor of Marketing at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business and as an Amazon Scholar, supporting Amazon's Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team.  Her research focuses on the impact of artificial intelligence in marketing and the science, measurement, and analytics of digital customer engagement and online marketing.  With implications for how consumers engage with AI, Professor Moe develops models for large-scale data in an effort to quantify consumer behaviors and the effects of marketing interventions.  

Professor Moe is a highly published academic with her research appearing in numerous leading business journals and is the author of Social Media Intelligence (Cambridge: 2014).  Professor Moe has been recognized by the American Marketing Association and the Marketing Science Institute as a leading scholar in her field with the AMA Sheth/Journal of Marketing Award, the Howard Award (honorable mention), the MSI Young Scholar Award, the Erin Anderson Award, and the Buzzell Award.  She is an academic fellow at the Marketing Science Institute, previously served as the Co-Editor of Journal of Interactive Marketing, and currently serves on the editorial boards of several leading journals.

Professor Moe has consulted for Fortune 500 corporations and government agencies in the areas of web analytics, social media insights, and product forecasting.  Her research in web analytics was the foundation for NetConversions, Inc., an early innovator in the area of online data collection and analysis, and she was part of the founding team that brought the company from start-up to acquisition in 2004.  She has also served as an expert witness in litigation related to online consumer behavior, data tracking and analytics, and online marketing and advertising.

• Type: Research Method/Domain Talk
• Topic: Digital Customer Engagement and the Impact of Personalized Experiences
• When: November 14th, 2025, 11:00am - 12:30 pm 
• Where: Zoom Registration Link: https://sfsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/zh1Ed3FhT9OpQwI9pC2uXg
• Recording: TBD

Herman Aguinis is the Avram Tucker Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Management at The George Washington University School of Business. His work focuses on the global acquisition and deployment of talent in organizations and organizational research methods (i.e., behavioral science and data science). He has written about 225 refereed journal articles and published 13 books. Every year since 2018, Web os Science Highly Cited Researchers Reports has ranked him among the world's 100 most impactful researchers in Economics and Business, and his research has received over 65, 000 Google Scholar citations (h-index = 108). 

• Type: Research Domain Talk
• Topic: How to Conduct Responsible and Impactful Research 
• When: Friday, May 9th, 2025, 10:00 am – 11:00 am (PST).
• Where: On Zoom. 
• Recording: The talk will not be recorded. 

Philip Adu, Ph.D. — Dr. Philip Adu is the Founder and Methodology Expert at the Center for Research Methods Consulting , LLC, a consultancy dedicated to supporting researchers, evaluators, and organizations in achieving their goals through robust research methodology and AI-assisted solutions. 

• Type: Research Method Talk
• Topic: Leveraging AI and NVivo for Qualitative Data Analysis
• When: Monday, Feburary 17th, 2025, 10:00 am – 11:30 am (PST).
• Where: On Zoom. Please register here to receive a personalized Zoom link and a reminder before the event: https://sfsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUpdOugrTgtG9BdotGJA42I40QOHziNw7b_#/registrati
• Recording: watch on Youtube here

Bernd Carsten Stahl, Ph.D. — Professor of Critical Research in Technology at the School of Computer Science of the University of Nottingham where he leads the Responsible Digital Futures group (https://www.responsible-digital-futures.org/).

• Type: Research Domain Talk
• Topic: Artificial Intelligence for a Better Future: An Ecosystem Perspective on the Ethics of AI and Emerging Digital Technologies
• When: Monday, October 28th, 2024, 10:00 am – 11:30 am (PST).
• Where: On Zoom. Please register here to receive a personalized Zoom link and a reminder before the event: https://sfsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkce2sqT0rHdSnksJbeYydw5UdKSsCJ…
• Recording: Watch on YouTube here

Pinar Ozcan, Ph.D. — Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Saïd Business School, Oxford University. She is also the academic director of the Oxford Entrepreneurship Centre and the Oxford Future of Finance and Technology (Fintech) Initiative

• Type: Research Method Talk
• Topic: Single, Comparative and Multiple Case Studies: Finding the Sweet Spot
• When: Monday, November 4th, 2024, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm (PST).
• Where: On Zoom. Please register here to receive a personalized Zoom link and a reminder before the event: https://sfsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMsfuiprj8tEtyiL-giDwBv0O2AlnC1j… 
• Recording: Watch on YouTube here

Nicola Pless, Ph.D. — Chaired Professor of Management (University of South Australia)

• Type: Research Domain Talk
• Topic: Responsible Leadership and Purpose-The Four Orientations that Determine Philosophy, Strategy, and Value Creation
• When: Monday, May 6th, 2024, 2:30 pm – 4 pm (PST).
• Where: On Zoom. Please register here to receive a personalized Zoom link and a reminder before the event: https://sfsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwpd-GorDkjGdcq6Bn5UDFX6NiBRvSYj… 
• Recording: You can watch the recording here

Jules White, Ph.D. — Director of Vanderbilt's Initiative on the Future of Learning & Generative AI (Vanderbilt University)

• Type: Research Method Talk
• Topic: Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT (https://www.coursera.org/learn/prompt-engineering)
• When: Friday. February 23^th, 2024, 10 am – 11:30 am (PST).
• Where: On Zoom. Please register here to receive a personalized Zoom link and a reminder before the event: https://sfsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEsdOuprjspHtVd_4zcat5hezQdSZV6d…
• Recording: You can watch the recording here

Dena Gromet, Ph.D. — Executive Director of the Behavior Change for Good Initiative (BCFG) (University of Pennsylvania)

• Type: Research Method Talk
• Topic: A megastudy approach to applied behavioral science
• When: Fri. November 10^th, 2023, 10 am – 11:30 am (PST).
• Where: On Zoom. Please register here to receive a personalized Zoom link and a reminder before the event: https://sfsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUodu2ppjsiGNcSePVBT01rtp6PhFWUQztd
• Recording: You can watch the recording here

Lindsey Cameron, Ph.D. — Assistant Professor of Management, Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania)

• Type: Research Domain Talk
• Topic: The future of work: Thinking through questions, methods, and epistemologies
• When: Fri. September 15^th, 2023, 11 am – 12:30 pm (PST).
• Where: On Zoom. Please register here to receive a personalized Zoom link and a reminder before the event: https://sfsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqceCsrjkoH92mpqGNPeJihC_vciR0UWJC
• More info: Please get in touch with the speaker for more details.

Donald Hedekar, Ph.D. — Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Public Health Sciences (The University of Chicago)

• Type: Research Method Talk
• Topic: Introduction to Multilevel Modeling.
• When: Fri. April 7^th, 2023, 11 am – 12:30 pm (PST).
• Where: On Zoom. Please register here to receive a personalized Zoom link and a reminder before the event: https://sfsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUpcOGgqzovHtH0RgjkE6A5x2irJrIBDJ03
• Recording: You can watch the recording here.

• Type: RI&E Domain Talk
• Topic: Inclusive Innovation: Do All Brands Benefit from Being Inclusive? 
• When: Friday, March 3^rd, 2023, 10 am – 11:30 pm (PST).  
• Where: On Zoom. Please register here to receive a personalized Zoom link and a reminder before the event: https://sfsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckc-ipqD4iE9NHSTc8nDTS0A2lSfswTL5T
• Recording: You can watch the recording here.

• Type: Research Method Talk
• Topic: Change Analysis
• When: Thurs., Nov. 3, 2022, 6 - 7:30 p.m.
• Where: On Zoom. Please register on this Zoom link to receive meeting information.

Julia Kroh, Ph.D. — Post Doctoral Research Associate, Kiel Institute of Responsible Innovation (Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel)

Carsten Schultz,  Ph.D. — Professor of Technology Management and Head of Department and Cofounder Kiel Institute for Responsible Innovation (Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel)

• Type: RI&E Domain Talk
• Topic: Why Visionary Leadership May Limit Employees' Contribution to Ideation Contests" (Won Best Student Paper at this year’s Academy Of Management)
• When: Fri., Sept. 16, 2022, 9 - 10:10 a.m.
• Where: On Zoom. Please register on this Zoom link to receive meeting information.
• Recording: You can watch the recording here.

 Julia Kroh, Ph.D. — Post Doctoral Research Associate, Kiel Institute of Responsible Innovation (Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel)

Carsten Schultz,  Ph.D. — Professor of Technology Management and Head of Department and Cofounder Kiel Institute for Responsible Innovation (Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel)

• Type: RI&E Domain Talk
• Topic: Why Visionary Leadership May Limit Employees' Contribution to Ideation Contests" (Won Best Student Paper at this year’s Academy Of Management)
• When: Fri., Sept. 16, 2022, 9 - 10:10 a.m.
• Where: On Zoom. Please register on this Zoom link to receive meeting information.
• Recording: You can watch the recording here.