2016 CONFERENCE COMPETITIONS

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RESEARCH COMPETITION

When: 1PM – 2:45PM, Thursday April 7th

What: More than 20 researchers submitted original, unpublished papers to the Wharton People Analytics Conference Research Paper Competition. These six finalists were selected judges based on criteria including originality, relevance, rigor & validity, and clarity.

The winning papers will be chosen by a panel of judges from industry and academia at the PAC Expo on Thursday, April 7th.

Research Paper Competition Finalists:

Paper Title

Primary Author

Institution

Secondary Authors &
Corresponding Institutions

“Enculturation Trajectories and Individual Attainment: An Interactional Language Use Model of Cultural Dynamics in Organizations”

Amir Goldberg

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Sameer Srivastava, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley; V. Govind Manian, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Christopher Potts, Department of Linguistics, Stanford University.

“A Double-Edged Sword: How and Why Resetting Performance Metrics Affects Future Performance”

Hengchen Dai

Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis

“Prior Career Mobility as a Mixed Signal in the Market for Senior Managers”

Shinjae Won

University of Pennsylvania

“Spatial Management”

Dylan Minor

Harvard Business School

Michael Housman, hiQ Labs

“Crafting jobs or engagement? The contingencies of job crafting on voice”

Ethan Burris

University of Texas at Austin

Jae Kwon Jo, University of Texas at Austin

“Crafting Contagion in an Organization: A Field Experiment”

Brian Rubineau

McGill University

Eric Gladstone, University of Kentucky; David Thompson, Community Solutions; Alexa Beavers, Boehringer Ingelheim; Erin Arcario, Boehringer Ingelheim

For further information please contact rpc@peopleanalyticsconference.com

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