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Michelle Barton


Assistant Professor
Organizational Behavior
 
Phone: 617-353-6397
E-Mail: mbarton@bu.edu
Office: 623
Office
Hours:
Tues. 4:00 PM-5:30 PM
Address: Boston University School of Management
595 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
 
 

Education

Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Ph.D., Management and Organizations2010

Pomona College
BA, Psychology1992

 

Current Courses

GSM ES 707 F1 Managing Career Growth

GSM OB 712 F1 Managing Organizations and People

 

Research Interests

  • Managing uncertainty and unexpected events; Entrepreneurship and innovation; Organizational learning and mindfulness
 

Selected Publications

Articles

Reviewed

"Assessing relative member expertise in groups: An expertise dependence perspective" (with Bunderson, J.S.) Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management (2009)
 
"Overcoming dysfunctional momentum: Organizational safety as a social achievement" (with Sutcliffe, K.) Human Relations 62 (9) (2009)1327-1356
 

Professional

"Learning when to stop momentum" (with Sutcliffe, K) MIT Sloan Management Review 51 (3) (Spring 2010)69-76
 
"Mindfulness as an organizational capability: Evidence from wildland firefighting" (with Sutcliffe, K) Revue für postheroisches Management 3 (2008)24-35
 

Chapters

"Entering Wonderland: Connecting through Negative Capability"  In Research Alive. Exploring Generative Moments in Doing Qualitative Research Edited by A. Carlsen and J. Dutton Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School Press,  2011

 

"Status and expertise in groups" (with Bunderson, J.S.)  In Status, Organization and Management Edited by J. Pearce Cambridge University Press,  2010

 

"Identity based issue-selling" (with Ashford, S.J.)  In Identity and the modern organization Edited by A. Bartel, S. Blader & A. Wrzesniewski Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum,  2007

 

Professional Activities

 

Nonacademic Positions

  • 2001-2004, Product Director, eLearning, Harvard Business School Publishing
  • 1994-2000, Producer/Project Manager, eLearning , Harvard Business School Publishing
  • 1992 - 1994, Associate, Boston Consulting Group