Recent Alumni by Degree Program
DBA
Accounting & Management
Marketing
Management
Technology & Operations Management
PhD
Business Economics
Health Policy (Management)
Information Technology and Management
Science, Technology and Management
Organizational Behavior
Please note that no placement information is currently available for the Strategy area, as the students in these programs have not yet graduated.
DBA in Accounting & Management
| Alumni | Dissertation Chair Dissertation Title |
Appointment upon Graduation |
|---|---|---|
| 2007-2008 | ||
| Craig James Chapman | Prof. P. Healy "Essays on Real Earnings Management" |
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University |
| 2006-2007 | ||
| Wan Wongsunwai | Profs. P. Healy and K. Palepu "Does Venture Capitalist Quality Affect Corporate Governance?" |
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University |
| 2004-2005 | ||
| George Eli Batta | Profs. P. Healy and K. Palepu "Financial Information's Role in Credit Analysis and Credit Derivative Valuation." |
National Economic Research Associates |
| Dennis Campbell | Prof. S. Datar "Performance Measurement and Joint-Production between the Customer and the Firm: Empirical and Analytical Perspectives." |
Harvard Business School, Harvard University |
| Tatiana Sandino | Profs. R. Simons and S. Datar "Introducing the First Management Control Systems: Evidence from the Retail Sector." |
Leventhal School of Accounting, University of Southern California |
| 2003-2004 | ||
| Suraj Srinivasan | Profs. P. Healy and K. Palepu "Consequences of Financial Reporting Problems for Outside Directors: Evidence from Accounting Restatements." |
Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago |
DBA in Marketing
| Alumni | Dissertation Chair Dissertation Title |
Appointment upon Graduation |
|---|---|---|
| 2006-2007 | ||
| Jill Janice Avery | Prof. J. Deighton "Saving Face by Making Meaning: The Detrimental Consequences of Consumers' Self-serving Response to Brand Extensions" |
Simmons College |
| Mary Neuner Caravella | Prof. J. Deighton "Privacy, Strategic Information Disclosure and New Customer Acquisition: Implications for Customer Relationship Management" |
University of Connecticut |
| 2005-2006 | ||
| Marco Bertini | Profs. J. Gourville and L Wathieu "Indirect Effects of Marketing Decisions on Consumer Response" |
London Business School |
| Ozge Turut | Prof. E. Ofek "Essays on New Product Decisions Under Market Uncertainty" |
Washington University in St. Louis |
| 2004-2005 | ||
| Tuba Ustuner | Prof. R. Deshpande "Selling in Knowledge-Intensive Contexts: The Role of Social Capital." |
City University, London |
| Andrea Carol Wojnicki | Prof. J. Deighton "Talking About Products, Talking About Me: Consumers' Subjective Expertise and Word-of-Mouth Behaviors." |
Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto |
| 2001-2002 | ||
| Matti Aistrich | Prof. G. Zaltman "Trust Us, Trust Me, Trust in the Future: Determinants of the Supplier's Success in Managing a Global Account Relationship." |
San Diego State University |
DBA in Management
| Alumni | Dissertation Chair Dissertation Title |
Appointment upon Graduation |
|---|---|---|
| 2007-2008 | ||
| Adam Michael Kleinbaum | Prof. M. Tushman "The Social Structure of Organization: Coordination in a Large, Multi-Business Firm" |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Business School, Harvard University |
| Spela Trefalt | Profs. K. McGinn and R. Ely "Between You and Me: A Relational Perspective on Managing Work - Nonwork Boundaries" |
Simmons College |
| 2005-2006 | ||
| Amanda Paige Cowen | Prof. P. Healy "The Liabilities of Status: Merger Outcomes in the Investment Banking Industry, 1980 - 2000" |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Business School, Harvard University |
| 2003-2004 | ||
| Julia Prats | Prof. A. Nanda "Sustaining Superior Performance through an Entrepreneurial Boom and Bust: Inter-Firm Differences in the e-Consulting Industry (1997-2001) and the Investment Management Industry (1927-1931)." |
IESE |
| 2001-2002 | ||
| Boris Groysberg | Prof. A. Nanda "The Portability of Star Knowledge Workers:Alumni Evidence from the Analyst Market." |
Harvard Business School, Harvard University |
| Niels Ketelhohn | Prof. M. Porter "The Role of Clusters as Sources of Dynamic Externalities." |
INCAE |
| Hannah Riley | Prof. K. Valley "When Does Gender Matter in Negotiation?Alumni The Case of Distributive Bargaining." |
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University |
DBA in Technology & Operations Management
| Alumni | Dissertation Chair Dissertation Title |
Appointment upon Graduation |
|---|---|---|
| 2008-2009 | ||
| Mark Charles Szigety | Prof. C. Baldwin "Measuring and Managing Uncertainty in New Product Development" |
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| 2007-2008 | ||
| Richard Kum-Yew Lai | Prof. A. Raman "Empirical Operations Management - Three Essays" |
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania |
| Ann Burr Winslow | Prof. A. Edmondson "Using Learning Curves to Measure Performance Improvement: Models and Trade-Offs" |
Content Developer Educational Technology Group, Harvard Business School, Harvard University |
| 2006-2007 | ||
| Saravanan Kesavan | Prof. A. Raman "Forecasting and Benchmarking Firm Level Performance of Retailers using Econometric Models" |
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Marcelo Pancotto | Prof. K. Bowen "Underlying Dynamics of Organizational Learning from a Problem Solving Perspective: Quality Improvement Efforts and Problem Population Dynamics" |
IAE - Universidad Austral |
| 2004-2005 | ||
| Santiago Kraiselburd | Prof. A. Raman "Three Essays on Supply Chain Contracts: Impact of Contract Limitations on Inventory and Sales." |
Instituto de Empresa |
| 2003-2004 | ||
| Saikat Chaudhuri | Prof. M. Iansiti "Can Innovation Be Bought? Managing Acquisitions in Dynamic Environments." |
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania |
| Gavin Clarkson | Prof. C. Christensen "Essays on Intellectual Asset Management." |
School of Information, University of Michigan |
| 2002-2003 | ||
| Deborah Sole | Prof. L. Applegate "Bridging Knowledge Gaps: Knowledge Sharing and Learning Practices in Virtual Development Teams." |
Researcher, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University |
| Anita Tucker | Prof. K. Bowen "Organizational Learning from Operational Failures." |
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania |
| George Westerman | Prof. M. Tushman "Innovating while Integrating: Implications of Modular and Interdependent Organizational Forms for Adopting Discontinuous Technological Change." |
Center for Information Systems Research, Sloan School of Management, MIT |
| 2001-2002 | ||
| Nicole DeHoratius | Prof. A. Raman "Critical Determinants of Retail Execution." |
Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago |
| Zeynep Ton | Prof. A. Raman "The Role of Store Execution in Managing Product Availability." |
Harvard Business School, Harvard University |
Business Economics PhD
| Alumni | Dissertation Chair Dissertation Title |
Appointment upon Graduation |
|---|---|---|
| 2007-2008 | ||
| Jakub Wojciech Jurek | Prof. J. Campbell "Exploring Deviations between Prices and Values in Capital Asset Markets" |
Princeton University |
| Robin Seung-Jin Lee | Prof. A. Pakes "Essays on Platform Competition and Two-Sided Markets" |
Stern School of Business, New York University |
| Anna R. Kovner | Prof. D. Scharfstein "Essays in Financial Economics: 1) Venture Capital Investment Cycles: The Impact of Public Markets, 2) The Private Equity Advantage: Leveraged Buyout Firms and Relationship Banking, 3) Unnecessary Termination: Public and Corporate Pension Plans' Asset Manager Decisions" |
Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
| 2006-2007 | ||
| Gregor Matvos | Prof. J. Stein "Essays in Proxy Voting and Human Capital Investment" |
Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago |
| Rachel Parkin | Prof. G. Baker "Linking Career Paths, Firm Organization, and Industry Structure in Legal Services" |
CRA International |
| Harini Parthasarathy | Prof. J. Stein "Essays on the Lending and Underwriting Industries: 1) Mergers and Impact on Customer Retention and Acquisition, 2) Do Firms Engage in One-Stop Shopping?, 3) Information Asymmetry and One-Stop Shopping" |
The World Bank |
| Parag Pathak | Prof. A. Roth "Essays on Real-life Allocation Problems" |
Sloan School of Management, MIT; Junior Fellow, Harvard University Society of Fellows |
| Michael Pomerleano | Prof. B. Friedman "Three Essays on Financial Crisis" |
The World Bank |
| Cristian Voicu | Prof. J. Campbell "Essays in Financial Economics and Contract Theory" |
Redbrick Partners |
| Halla Yang | Prof. J. Campbell "Essays on Constructing, Exploiting, and Rationalizing Cross-Sectional Anomalies" |
Goldman Sachs Asset Management |
| 2005-2006 | ||
| James A. Costantini | Prof. T. Khanna "Essays on Effects of Financial Institutions on Industrial Development, 1) Impact of Financial Development on Firm Growth and Firm Size Distribution, 2) Financial Institutions and Industry Growth 3) Cross-Industry Variation in Effect of Bankruptcy Procedures: Case Study of Italy." |
INSEAD (Singapore) |
| Eliza Jane Hammel | Profs. K. Rogoff and L. Alfaro "Essays in International Economics: 1) Capital Flows and Capital Goods*, 2) Stock Market Liberalization and Industry Growth, 3) The Determinants of FDI: The Proximity-Concentration Tradeoff in Europe" *with Laura Alfaro |
McKinsey & Company |
| Eric Ross Nierenberg | Profs. P. Gompers and S. Gilson "Essays in Financial Economics 1) Stock Warrants and Bankruptcy Restructuring Efficiency, 2) What Attracts Investor Attention? Evidence from the Message Boards, 3) Shutting the Pearly Gates: The Determinants and Performance Implications of Mutual Fund Closures*" *with Yuhai Xuan |
Independence Investments LLC |
| Pavel Savor | Prof. A. Shleifer "Essays in Financial Economics: (1) Holding on to Your Shorts: When do Short Sellers Retreat? (2) Value for Acquirers? (3) Stock Returns after Major Price Shocks: the Impact of Information" |
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania |
| Ryan D. Taliaferro | Prof. J. Campbell "Essays in Financial Economics: (1) Firm Investment and Systematic Risk (2) Live Prices and Stale Quantities: T+1 Accounting and Mutual Fund Mispricing* (3) Predicting Returns with Managerial Decision Variables: Is there a Small Sample Bias?**" *with Peter Tufano (HBS and NBER) and Michael Quinn (Analysis Group) **with Malcolm Baker (HBS and NBER) and Jeffrey Wurgler (NYU and NBER) |
Harvard Business School, Harvard University |
| Catherine Mary Atterbury Thomas | Profs. T. Khanna and E. Helpman "Essays on the Industrial Organization of Multinational Enterprises" |
Columbia University |
| Yuhai Xuan | Profs. J. Stein and P. Gompers "Essays in Financial Economics (1) Empire-Building or Bridge-Building? Evidence from New CEOs' Internal Capital Allocation Decisions (2) The Role of Venture Capitalists in the Acquisition of Private Companies* (3) Shutting the Pearly Gates: The Determinants and Performance Implications of Mutual Fund Closures**" * with Paul Gompers (HBS and NBER) ** with Eric Nierenberg |
Harvard Business School, Harvard University |
| 2004-2005 | ||
| Katherine Emily Ho | Prof. A. Pakes "Essays on the Industrial Organization of Medical Care: The Welfare Effects of Restricted Hospital Choice in the US Medical Care Market; Insurer-Provider Networks in the Medical Care Market; Moment Inequalities and Their Application." |
Department of Economics, Columbia University |
| Kristin Elizabeth Knox | Prof. J. Stein "Essays in Financial Economics: How Does the Presence of Collateral Affect Banks' Views of Takeover Defenses?; How Does Collateral Affect Loan Spreads?; Earnings Preannouncements (joint with Randolph Cohen and Tuomo Vuolteenaho)." |
Institutional Research Office, Harvard University |
| Michael Ostrovsky | Prof. A. Roth "Essays on Matching: Stability in Supply Chain Networks; Trade Patterns under Transportation Cost Heterogeneity; Two-sided Matching with Common Values." |
Graduate School of Business, Stanford University |
| Michael Yampuler | Prof. P. Healy "Three Essays on Standards and the Capital Market: 1) Principles-Based Accounting Standards, Earnings Management and Price Efficiency, 2) Earnings Management Deterrence, 3) Audit Opinion Levels." |
C. T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston |
| 2003-2004 | ||
| Gene D'Avolio | Prof. Shleifer "Essays in Financial Economics: 1. The Market for Borrowing Stock, 2. Short Selling Practice: Intermediating Uncertain Availability, 3. Media Coverage and Momentum." |
Citadel Investment Group |
| Daniel Elfenbein | Prof. Lerner "Empirical Studies of Technology and Alliance Contracting." |
Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley |
| Jasjit Singh | Prof. Khanna "Innovation and Knowledge Diffusion in the Global Economy." |
INSEAD |
| Geoffrey Verter | Prof. Shleifer "Essays in Financial Economics: 1. Timing Merger Waves, 2. Stock Turnover, Shareholder Horizon, and Corporate Investment, 3. Cephalon, Inc.: Taking Risk Management Too Seriously." |
Goldman Sachs |
| Georg Weizsacker | Prof. Roth "Beliefs about Other Players: Experimental Evidence." |
London School of Economics |
| Joshua White | Prof. Campbell "Three Essays on Portfolio Choice: 1. External Habit Formation and the Home Bias Puzzle, 2. Foreign Currency for Long-Term Investors, 3. A PDE Characterization of the Choice Rule in Dynamic Portfolio Optimization." |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 2002-2003 | ||
| Lei Feng | Prof. J. Stein "Three Essays in Financial Economics: Herding Disposition, Ownership Restrictions, and Market Segmentation." |
Jiao Tong University |
| Thomas Knox | Prof. G. Chamberlain "Learning How to Invest When Returns Are Uncertain." |
Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago |
| Tarun Ramadorai | Prof. K. Froot "Institutional Investors, Information, and International Assets." |
SAID Business School, Oxford University |
| 2001-2002 | ||
| C. Fritz Foley | Prof. A. Shleifer "Essays on the Economics of Multinational Enterprises." |
Ross School of Business, University of Michigan |
| Robert Huckman | Prof. D. Cutler "Essays on Consolidation and Technology Diffusion in Medical Care." |
Harvard Business School, Harvard University |
| Dirk Jenter | Prof. J. Stein "Essays in Financial Economics." |
Sloan School of Business, MIT |
| Joseph Kogan | Prof. T. Khanna "Just-in-Case Inventories:Alumni A Cross-Country Analysis." “Do Country Borders Matter?Alumni The Limits of Reputation and Inter-Firm Networks in the Indian Offshore Software Industry” “Globalization and Corporate Governance Convergence?Alumni A Cross-Country Analysis” |
Escuela de Adminstracion, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile |
| Ulrike Malmendier | Prof. G. Baker "Behavioral Approaches to Contract Theory and Corporate Finance." |
Graduate School of Business, Stanford University |
| F. Asis Martinez-Jerez | Profs. P. Healy and K. Palepu "Three Essays on Capital Markets and Information Economics." |
Harvard Business School, Harvard University |
| Matthew McBrady | Prof. K. Froot "Empirical Analyses of Interest Rate Parity." |
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania |
Health Policy and Management PhD
| Alumni | Dissertation Chair Dissertation Title |
Appointment upon Graduation |
|---|---|---|
| 2007-2008 | ||
| Syeda Noorein Inamdar | Prof. R. Kaplan "Examining the Scope of Multibusiness Health Care Firms: Implications for Corporate Strategy, Management Control Systems and Performance" |
San Jose State University |
| 2006-2007 | ||
| Ingrid Marie Nembhard | Prof. A. Edmondson "Organizational Learning in Health Care: A Multi-Method Study of Quality Improvement Collaboratives" |
School of Medicine and School of Management (jointly), Yale University |
| Sara Jean Singer | Prof. A. Edmondson "Safety Climate in U.S. Hospitals: Its Measurement, Variation, and Relationship to Organizational Safety Performance" |
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| 2005-2006 | ||
| Darren Edward Zinner | Prof. G. Pisano "Essays on the Management of Clinical Trial Sites: Lessons for Health Policy, Technology Development, and Organizational Theory" |
Research Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Health Policy |
Information Technology and Management PhD
| Alumni | Dissertation Chair Dissertation Title |
Appointment upon Graduation |
|---|---|---|
| 2006-2007 | ||
| Adam Isaac Juda | Prof. D. Parkes "Coordination and Costly Preference Elicitation in Electronic Markets" |
Google, Inc. |
| 2005-2006 | ||
| Marcin Andrzej Strojwas | Prof. M. Iansiti "An Empirical Study of Vertical Integration in the Semiconductor Industry" |
Adventis Corporation |
| C. Jason Woodard | Profs. C. Baldwin and D. Parkes "Architectural Strategy and Design Evolution in Complex Engineered Systems" |
Singapore Management University |
Science, Technology and Management PhD
| Alumni | Dissertation Chair Dissertation Title |
Appointment upon Graduation |
|---|---|---|
| 2007-2008 | ||
| Li Li | Prof. M. Khanna "Industrial Policy, Technology Advances and Industry Development -- Evidence from the Chinese Software Industry" |
Oppenheimer Fund |
| Jolie Mae Martin | Prof. M. Norton "Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Information Aggregation in Online Decision-Making" |
Post Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University Program on Negotiation |
| Feng Zhu | Prof. M. Iansiti "Dynamics of Platform-Based Markets" |
University of Southern California |
Organizational Behavior PhD
| Alumni | Dissertation Chair Dissertation Title |
Appointment upon Graduation |
|---|---|---|
| 2008-2009 | ||
| Bharat Ganesh Shenoy | Prof. J. Polzer "Are Virtuous Choices Especially Valued Once Possessed?" |
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| Qingxia Tong | Prof. P. Marsden "Property Rights and Corporate Governance in Chinese Public Companies 1994-2005." |
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| 2007-2008 | ||
| Marya L. Besharov | Prof. P. Marsden "Mission Goes Corporate: Employee Behavior in a Mission-Driven Business" |
School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University |
| Heather Maiirhe Caruso | Prof. J. Polzer "What We Can Gain From Losses: How Framing Affects Willingness to Collaborate with Outgroup Members" |
Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Chicago |
| Todd Rogers | Prof. M. Bazerman "Experiments in Political Communications: Citizenship Behavior and Political Decision Making" |
The Analyst Institute |
| 2006-2007 | ||
| Paul Myers | Prof. R. Moss Kanter "Strategic and Operational Autonomy in the Governance of Multiparty Ventures" |
Simmons College |
| Katharina Pick | Prof. J. Lorsch "Around the Boardroom Table: Interactional Aspects of Governance" |
Post Doctoral Fellow, Harvard Business School, Harvard University |
| 2005-2006 | ||
| Dolly Chugh | Prof. M. Bazerman "Whose Advice is it Anyway?: An Exploration of Bias and Implicit Social Cognition in the Use of Advice" |
Stern School of Business, New York University |
| Shoshana Dobrow | Prof. J.R. Hackman "Having a Calling: A Longitudinal Study of Young Musicians" |
Graduate School of Business Administration, Fordham University |
| Won Yong Kim | Prof. P. Marsden "Network of Audiences: FDA Review Time and Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry, 1990-2004" |
Columbia University |
| Elizabeth Lingo | Prof. K. McGinn "Negotiations and Lovesongs: A Theory of Nexus Work in Market-Based Cultural Industry Projects" |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy, Vanderbilt University |
| Wendy K. Smith | Prof. M. Tushman "Managing Strategic Contradictions: Top Management Teams Balancing Existing Products and Innovation Simultaneously" |
University of Delaware |
| 2004-2005 | ||
| Michael Beers | Prof. B. Reskin "When Strangers Dance: Social Capital and the Gender Earnings Gap in Elite Workers." |
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| Constance Noonan Hadley | Prof. J.R. Hackman "The Social Processing of Positive and Negative Emotions in Work Groups." |
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| Linda-Eling Lee | Prof. J. Podolny "Conspicuous Consumption: A Theory on Producers' Quality Ideals." |
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| Christopher Owen Wheat | Prof. J. Podolny "Modeling the Structure of Social Organization." |
Sloan School of Management, MIT |
| 2003-2004 | ||
| David Ager | Prof. N. Nohria "How Identity, Belongingness, and Toxic Emotions Impede Interaction and Coordination: A Study of Post-Acquisition Integration at a Software Firm." |
Department of Sociology, Harvard University |
| Tal Ben-Shachar | Prof. E. Langer "Restoring Self-Esteem: The Constructs of Dependent and Independent Competence and Worth." |
Department of Psychology, Harvard University |
| Sandra Cha | Prof. A. Edmondson "Walking the Talk: Leadership, Ambiguity, and Perceived Commitment to Organizational Values." |
McGill University |
| Lisa Rohrer | Prof. G. Baker "Mergers in Professional Service Firms: A Large-Scale Analysis of How Law Firm Mergers Shape Attorney Careers and the Use and Retention of Human Capital." |
Sterling Research Group |
| 2002-2003 | ||
| Shelley Brickson | Prof. K. Valley "Organizational Identity Orientation: Making the Link between Organizational Identity and Organizational Behavior." |
London Business School |
| James Detert | Prof. P. Marsden "To Speak or Not to Speak: The Multi-Level Leadership Influences on Voice and Silence in Organizations." |
Pennsylvania State University |
| Josephine Pichanick | Prof. R. Hackman "Individual Differences in the Regulation of Well-Being." |
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| Anita Woolley | Prof. R. Hackman "The Antecedents and Consequences of Outcome and Procedural Orientation in Work Teams." |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University |
| Andargachew Zelleke | Prof. J. Lorsch "Freedom and Constraint: The Design of Governance and Leadership Structures in British and American Firms." |
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania |
| 2001-2002 | ||
| Allan Filipowicz | Prof. T. Amabile "The Influence of Humor on Performance in Task-Based Interactions." |
INSEAD |
| Martine Haas | Prof. R. Hackman "Acting on What Others Know:Alumni Distributed Knowledge and Team Performance." |
Cornell University |
| Julia Rubin | Prof. T. Skocpol "Organizations on the Institutional Cusp:Alumni The Origins and Behaviors of Community Development Venture Capital Funds." |
Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University |
| Noam Wasserman | Prof. N. Nohria "The Venture Capitalist as Entrepreneur." |
Harvard Business School, Harvard University |
