Academic Identity
I am assistant professor of Sociology at Barnard College. My book (and my dissertation research) is a comparative study of technology and futures trading, an ethnography of open outcry and electronic traders. My current research is on how art specialists price cultural commodities, particularly how categories and commensuration work in the secondary/resale fine arts market. I teach courses in economic sociology, organizations, and gender.
Professional Identity
I occasionally consult, focusing on organizational change, the future of technology and financial markets, and environmental markets. I do strategic assessments of markets, technology and organizational design, with qualitative and quantitative components. If you are interested, please email me.
Personal Identity
I grew up outside Chicago, and went to school(s) at Wesleyan University, USC, and Northwestern University. I currently live in New York, with a partner who is a marketing manager for an educational nonprofit. I love movies, like to cook, and I can do a mean lindy swing out. I am INTP.
June 10, 2009
Money men in the third sector, part one
Filed under: Culture, Management Schools — Peter @ 2:33 pm
My partner and I have been talking a lot about non-profits of late, and some of the thinking about expertise that came out of these discussions is possibly worth sharing (at least to the extent that anything really is on the intertubes). I want to give credit to partner without assigning blame for my viewpoint. She’s more generally positive than I am in almost every case.
My thoughts are braketed by two (good) books: John Wood’s Leaving Microsoft to Change the World and Tracy Kidder’s Mountains Beyond Mountains (which I was reminded about when David Purcell recommended it – thank you, Dave). I should add up front that if this discussion leads you to believe that you shouldn’t give money or respect the work of these non-profits, this makes you a kinda bad person. I’m speaking of relative value rather than absolute value.
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October 22, 2008
Local sociologist makes good
Filed under: Management Schools — Peter @ 11:21 pm
When Duncan Watts headed off to Yahoo!, I thought, well sure, that makes sense. But now I read that Joel Podolny is heading off from Yale management school to head up Apple University, and I’m wondering if we’ll be seeing a shift from sociologists heading off to management schools to sociologists heading off to corporate university-like training facilities.
Or put another way, it’s getting hard to keep arguing that sociology is not being paid attention to in the business world.
Comments (0)February 2, 2008
An Opportunity to learn about Performativity
Filed under: Management Schools, Markets — Peter @ 4:26 pm
This would be an interesting opportunity for someone who would like to learn, network, discuss:
From Bodies to Black-Scholes: A Two-day Workshop on Performativity and the Social Studies of Finance
Organized by Daniel Beunza (Columbia U.) and Yuval Millo (LSE)
Columbia Business School, New York, 28-29 April 2008
The Social Studies of Finance (SSF) is one of the fastest-growing and most intriguing new fields in the social sciences today. Born from the intersection of sociology of science, economic sociology, management and critical accounting, SSF offers a new vantage point for the analysis of financial markets and their dynamics.
This intensive two-day workshop is convened by Daniel Beunza from Columbia Business School and Yuval Millo from the London School of Economics. It is aimed at presenting the field to newcomers, and is directed at research students and early-career researchers in accounting, finance, management, political science and sociology.
To allow effective discussion, the group size is limited to 12 participants. The workshop’s fee is US$ 200, which includes meals. To apply for the workshop, please send by February 31 your CV and a one-page description of your research and how it relates to SSF to y.mi...@lse.ac.uk
For more details
Comments (0)January 20, 2008
A fix for b-schools?
Filed under: Management Schools — Peter @ 3:48 pm
I don’t have much to add to this post by Grant McCracken, other to say that you could do worse than reading the whole thing.
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