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ODC is actively working toward sharing contemporary and relevant knowledge in the field of Organization Design. The webinar series is one of the mediums for this.

We have designed a policy for webinars that aims to balance the twin goals of disseminating organization design knowledge at large as well as providing unique value for members.

Webinar topics relate to Organization Design, broadly defined. Presenters are a mix of ODC members and non-members who bring specialized expertise.

ODC members have first priority in registering for webinars that have size restrictions (e.g. because of hands on components).Approximately a week before the webinar, the remaining available seats will be opened to non-members.

All webinars are archived on the ODC website.

To get full access to the recordings, one must be an ODC member.

If you would like to propose a webinar, please email us at ordesigncomm@gmail.com for the schedule and technical details.

Upcoming webinars

    • 30 Oct 2025
    • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
    • Zoom Webinar
    • 266
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     ODC Webinar

    Managing labor on and off platforms

    Maggie Zhou
    Professor of Strategy at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan,
               

    ---   30th Oct. 2025, Thursday at 9am EST/2pm CET   --- 

    In this webinar, I will talk about two of my recent studies. One is about temporary opportunity assignment as a source of labor productivity improvement in restaurants. Leveraging detailed transaction data, we find that temporary assignments of restaurant servers to a high-opportunity section led to an increase in their hourly sales in subsequent periods after they returned to low-opportunity sections, and this increase appears to be caused by a combination of skill learning and motivation enhancement. Our findings highlight opportunity assignment as a valuable managerial tool for fostering employees’ skill development, maintaining their motivation and improving long-term productivity. The second study is about platform workers (or complementors) oscillating their resources (e.g., time and assets) following platform diversification. Using datasets on the rideshare and food delivery businesses in New York City, we find that the launch of Uber Eats reduced Uber's and Lyft's rideshare trip volumes. Additional theoretical and empirical analyses suggest that, while platform diversification enables rideshare drivers to share some resources across businesses, it may also create opportunities for them to oscillate other complementary resources, thereby diverting their resources in the existing business from both the diversifying and competing platform firms. Such sharing-enabled resource oscillation may be due to resource exclusivity at the transactional level and the lack of control by platform firms over complementor resources at the organizational level.

     

    About the Speaker

    Maggie Zhou is a professor of strategy at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. Her research is in the areas of corporate strategy, competitive strategy, institutional strategy and organizational structure.  Her recent studies investigate the role of task complexity and competing institutional demands in setting limits to firm growth, the use and effects of competitive strategies between firms on and off digital platforms and within technological ecosystems, as well as organizational design for domestic and multinational corporations. In addition to theoretical models, she has examined these issues in a broad range of empirical settings including air transportation, commercial spaceflight, electricity, fintech, healthcare, manufacturing, oil and gas, restaurant, rideshare, soft drink, and solar photovoltaic installation industries. Her work has been published in the Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, Organization Science, Strategy Science, Journal of Corporate Finance, and Advances in Strategic Management. She is an Associate Editor for Management Science and Strategic Management Journal, a Contributing Editor for Strategy Science, and an editorial board member for Organization Science.

    Last date for registration is 29th Oct 2025 9 am EST

    Hope you will be able to join us!

Planned webinars for 2024-25

S.No  Type of Webinar  Date  Time  Title  Faculty
 1  Academic 25th January 2024 3pm CET/ 9am EST

Two Faces of Organizational Resilience: Robustness versus Adaptability

Thorbjørn Knudsen

Professor (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management)

 2  Industry 15th February  2024 3pm CET/ 9am EST Accelerating the path to becoming an organization design practitioner: Accenture's experience in building a global team

Amy Kates (Senior Managing Director)

Shikha Tyagi (Managing Director)

Bernud Mueller (Senior Consultant)

 3  Academia 14th March 2024

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Two presentations of PhD students and a discussant

Wesley Wu-Yi Koo

Associate Professor (Johns Hopkins Carey)

 4  Academic 25th April 2024 -

Designing Adaptive Organizations

Charles Snow

Professor (Penn State University)

Prof. Oystein Fjeldstad

Professor (Norwegian Business School)

5  Industry  30th May 2024 -

Winnie Doeswijk (Novartis)

Global Head of Organisation Development

 6 PhD 26th June 2024 - Two presentations of PhD students and a discussant

Julia Bodner

Assistant Professor (Copenhagen Business School)


 7  Academic  25th July 2024 - Design Rules Vol. 2

Carliss Baldwin 

Professor (Harvard Business School)

 8 Industry   29th August 2024   11 AM EST/5 PM CET

J.Paul Wayne 

Chevron, Senior Advisor, Organization Design
Member of OCD Board of Directors

 9  PhD  26th September 2024  11 AM EST/5 PM CET   Ying-Ying Hsieh

Assistant Professor at Imperial College London, Business School


 10 Industry   31st October 2024 9 AM EST/2 PM CET*/10pm SGT
(Daylight saving time ends in Europe on Oct. 27)
 

Dan Lamp

Intuitive Surgical, Director of OD

Michele DiMartino

Intuitive Surgical

 11  Academic 21th November 2024   9 AM EST/3 PM CET/10pm SGT  

Vivianna Fang He

Associate Professor at the School of Management, University of St. Gallen

 12  PhD  5th December 2024 9 AM EST/3 PM CET/10pm SGT   Arianna Marchetti 

Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, London Business School

 13  Academic  23rd January 2025 9 AM EST/3 PM CET/10pm SGT  

Prithwiraj Choudhury

Lumry Family Associate Professor, Harvard Business School

 14  Industry  27th February 2025 9 AM EST/3 PM CET/10pm SGT  

Martin Gonzalez

Global Organization Development Lead for Google’s Compute Business

 15  PhD  27th March 2025 9 AM EST/2 PM CET/10pm SGT ((Daylight saving time starts in the US on Mar. 9)  

Franziska Lauenstein

Assistant Professor, Kühne Logistics University (KLU)

 16 Academic    15th May 2025 9 AM EST/3 PM CET/10pm SGT  

Nicolai Foss

Professor of Strategy at the Department of Strategy and Innovation, Copenhagen Business School

 17 Industry    22nd May  2025  10 AM EST/4PM CET/10PM SGT

ODC Webinar for JOD Special Issue (Part 1)

'Organizer: Martin Gonzalez (Google), Jeroen van Bree (Berenschot)

- Gary Hamel (London Business School)

- Amy Kates (Accenture)

- Paul Tolchnisky (Performance Development Associates)

 18 PhD 19th June 20259 AM EST/3 PM CET/10pm SGT Organizer: Jonathan Jensen (Assistant Professor, Munich School of Management – Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
 19 Academic   17th July 20259 AM EST/4 PM CET/11pm SGT 

Gianluca Carnabuci

Professor of Organizational Behavior, ESMT Berlin

 20Industry     
 21 Academic  18th September 20259 AM EST/3 PM CET/10pm SGT 

'Organizer: Martin Gonzalez (Google), Jeroen van Bree (Berenschot)

- Stefan Heusinkveld (Radboud University), Armand Smits (Radboud University)

- Constantin Bremer (Chalmers University of Technology)

- Katherine Tatarinov (University of Lausanne), Tina Ambos (University of Geneva)

 22 Academic 30th October  202510 AM EST/3 PM CET/10pm SGT 

Yue Maggie Zhou

Associate Professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

 23 Academic 27th November  20259 AM EST/3 PM CET/10pm SGT 

Oliver Baumann

Professor at the Department of Business & Management and Head of the Strategic Organization Design (SO

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