Past OS Honors Theses

Nadia Finkel: Legal Underpinnings and Implications of Sexual Assault on College Campuses: Perceptions, Attitudes, and Policy Recommendations

Vivian Hu: Insights from the First Year of Dodd Frank's Pay Ratio Disclosure

Lilah Kalfus: The Business Case for the B Corporation Certification: An Empirical Study on the Relationship Between Social and Financial Performance

Jenna Weberman: How Energy Thrives: The Relationship Between Physical and Psychological Variables and Overall Energy

Kevin Corbett: Humor in Organizations

Rebecca Leeman: Two Sides of the Same Coin: Social Identity and Jewish Millenials' Expression of their Jewish Identity

Becky Bereswill: Dispersion: A Trendsetting Heuristic. Effect of Perceived Dispersion of Distribution Channels on Assessments of Trendiness and Organizational Prestige

Rachel Goldman: The Influence of Positive Organizational Practices on School Climate in Middle School

Heather G. Kendrick: Artists Who Can Teach: Music Teaching Artistry in Educational and Organizational Settings

Katherine Ruehrdanz: Partisanship and Hate: Influences on Attitudes towards Civility and Violence among Protestors

Rebecca Strauss: The Company You Keep: The Effects of Social Context on Multiracial Categorization in Children

Lauren Tassone: Dogmatism and Religion:When the Need to Be Right Impedes Helping

Jacob Gustaveson: From the Tabernacle to the Bloggernacle: Institutional Isomorphism, Ordain Women, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Jessica Hasper: Theological Praxis: Creative Faith and Doctrinal Belief in Puritan Congregationalism and aCorporate Megachurch

Zoe Miller: Understanding Blameworthiness and Treating Juvenile Violence

Aubrey O'Neal: Network-Based Development Through a Non-Governmental Organization: A Case Study Of Empowering Women in Rural India

Paul Vicinanza: Identity-constrained Isomorphism: An Integrated Model of Organizational Mimicry

Katherine Fitzpatrick: The Relationship Between Professionalization and Transparency in the German Nonprofit Sector

Melanie Gingell: Malleability of Self-Perceived Gender among Men: Examining the Role of Motivated Cognition

Lauren Kohatsu: Perspectives of Medical Professionals on Change Management

Shira Moskowitz: Gender and Leadership Among Reform Rabbis in the United States and Canada

Alice Murphy: The Environmental Context of Corporate Sustainability Reporting

Catherine Spevak: Organizational Reactions to the Threat of Student Suicide Litigation: Symbolic Compliance Precludes Liability

Paige Taliaferro: Results-Based Financing: A Cross Sector Comparison in Education and Health

Eli Burstein: When Red Sox best Harvard: The Liability of High Status, Why it Occurs, and Why it Matters

Kaitlin Keane: Gendering of Compassion in Organizations

Christina Rowan: The Routinization of Charisma: Leader-Follower Relationships in the Suzuki Association of the Americas

Haley Sakwa: Taking Steps Towards Diversityu: K-12 Outreach at Selective Universities

Emily Zacek: Labor in American Orchestras

Caroline Canning: Motivating Employees to Do Good: The Role of Leader Morality and Competence

Nathan Magyar: Teaching the Science of Job-Searching and the Art of Self-Reflection

Erin Reed: What If…? A New Viewpoint on the Relationship Between Decentralization and Education Inequality

Monica Shattuck: Campaign Tactics and Social Movement Outcomes: A Case Study of the United Students Against Sweatshops

Yourui Yeo: Where Leaders Draw the Line: How Ethical a Boss Do You (Think You) Want?

Claire Baker: Bridging the Gaps:  A Case Study on the Implementation of Educational Technologies in High School

Maor Cohen: Fermenting Innovation: Talk is not Cheap and Valuing Leads to Value

Jonathan Hulting-Cohen: Diffusion, Adoption, and Adaptation: An Organizational History of El Sistema in the United States

Maple Kirby: A Legacy of Education Reform in Detroit: An Archival and Field-based Case Study of the Current State of the School District and Reforms in Detroit, Michigan

Randy Limberg: Group-Size and Inequality-Aversion

Emily Duhovny: J Street’s Role as a Broker:  Is J Street Expanding the Reach of the Organized American Jewish Community?

Matt Gordon: The Letter Versus The Spirit of The Law

Lea Wender: Organizational Learning in Student Organizations:  Discovering How to Grow and Develop

Jeff Wojcik: Self-Distancing and Political Ideology:  The Impact of Altered Perspectives on Campaigns and Other Political Organizations

Maya Burns: Impacts of Perceived Discrimination on African American Girls in the Transition to Middle School

Patricia Chen: Yin and Yang Theory of Competition: Social Comparison and Evaluation Apprehension Reciprocally Drive Competitive Motivation

Erica Jankelovitz: Institutional Peer Pressure: Why Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Organizations Participate in the Orphan Drug Act (1983)

Elizabeth Lai:  From Perception to Policy:  The Metaphors of US Counterterrorism

Danielle Wright:  When the sentence is over, is it really over?

Neil Tambe: Hire Me:  An Examination and Evaluation of the Human Capital Transformations to Recruit Generation Y into Government Service and Retain Them once They're There

Leslie Zaikis: Adam & Even: A Critical Analysis of Gender Differences in Leadership Across the Dimensions of Altruism, Trust, Reciprocity and Organizational Citizen Behaviors

Justin Benson:  The Motivational Power of a Public Service Mission: Influences on its Effectiveness Among Public Sector Employees

Jenna Brubaker:  “It’s Definitely an Uphill Battle”: The Process of Innovation Implementation in the Context of School-Based Child Obesity Programs

Alexander Nichols: Barriers to Public Assistance for Hispanic Immigrants in the United States

Lindsey Rogers:  Governing the Global Commons: International Environmental Agreements and the North/South Divide

Justin Berg: Coping with Passion:  Crafting Work and Leisure to Answer a Missed Calling*

Grace Chen: The Meaning of Meaningful Work: Subject-Object Meaningfulness in Knowledge Work

Joey DeBartolo: Quality Differences in the Receipt of Long-term Home Care

Perry Teicher: Changing a Paradigm:  Centralization in a Decentralized System

*Justin Berg's further-developed version of his thesis was published in Organization Science, with Professor Victoria Johnson as a co-author

Tara Thomas: Identity and Power in Public Goods

Mel Beras: The Transformation of the Status of Women in Eastern and Central Europe during the First Post-Communist Decade

Kathryn Wheeler: Nurse Staffing and Resident Outcomes: National and State-Level Analyses