Dr. James Riley is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches LEAD in the MBA required curriculum.
Professor Riley is an economic sociologist. He conducts ethnographic research to produce qualitative studies on the role of status, norms, social valuations, and organizational culture within innovation-driven organizations, creative industries, and cultural markets. His fieldwork aims to identify and distill complex informal governance structures and relational mechanisms to generate observationally grounded theories of organizational actors’ strategic behavior.
In this episode, he and Dr. Evans discuss the motivations, aims and mission of the Blackbox Lab, an intellectual community of interdisciplinary scholars engaged in grounded theory building while providing thought-partnership with organizations in cultural production, platform design, and AI approaches to value creation.
Uncommon Naledge is hosted by Dr. Jabari Evans and edited and produced by Olan Domer.
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Original music for intro and outro produced by Michael "Double 0" Aguilar.
