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With the expanding role of business in global society and the increasing sophistication of the practice of management, the demand for faculty at business schools has never been greater.
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Graduates of the HBS Doctoral Programs have gone on to become prominent scholars in a wide range of disciplines at many of the world's most prestigious institutions.
Placement, 2015-2020
2020

Wei Cai
Accounting & Management, 2020
Placement: | Columbia Business School, Accounting Department |
Dissertation: | Shaping Organizational Outcomes through Management Control Systems: Evidence from the Field |
Advisors: | Dennis Campbell (Chair), Tatiana Sandino, and Susanna Gallani |

Jihwon Park
Accounting & Management, 2020
Placement: | CUNY, Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business |
Dissertation: | Does Compliance Training Decrease Corporate Misconduct? Evidence from Field Data |
Advisors: | Eugene F. Soltes (Chair), Krishna G. Palepu, and Aiyesha Dey |
2019

Jody Grewal
Accounting & Management, 2019
Placement: | University of Toronto, Rotman School, Management Department |
Dissertation: | Management and Disclosure of Corporate Sustainability Performance |
Advisors: | Paul M. Healy (Co-Chair), George Serafeim (Co-Chair), Srikant M. Datar, Krishna G. Palepu, and Edward Riedl |

Matthew Shaffer
Accounting & Management, 2019
Placement: | University of Southern California, Leventhal School of Accounting |
Dissertation: | Truth and Bias in M&A Target Fairness Valuations: Appraising the Appraisals |
Advisors: | Suraj Srinivasan, John Coates, and N/A |
2018

Carolyn Deller
Accounting & Management, 2018
Placement: | University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School, Accounting Department |
Dissertation: | Identifying, Measuring and Communicating Employee Fit Through Formal Control Mechanisms: Evidence from the Field |
Advisors: | Dennis Campbell (Co-Chair), Tatiana Sandino (Co-Chair), Robert Simons, and Eugene F. Soltes |

Andrew Jing Liu
Accounting & Management, 2018
Placement: | University of Connecticut, School of Business, Accounting Department |
Dissertation: | Accuracy, Timeliness and Managers’ Discretion of Fair Value Pricing: Evidence from the Banking Industry |
Advisors: | Dennis Campbell (Chair), Adi Sunderam, and Edward Riedl |

Jee Eun Shin
Accounting & Management, 2018
Placement: | University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management, Accounting Department |
Dissertation: | Overcoming Limits in the Design of Formal Management Control Systems: Evidence from the Field |
Advisors: | Dennis Campbell (Chair), Srikant M. Datar, Brian J. Hall, Paul M. Healy, and N/A |

Aaron Yoon
Accounting & Management, 2018
Placement: | Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, Accounting Department |
Dissertation: | Essays on the Role of Accounting Information and Governance in Emerging Institutions |
Advisors: | Paul M. Healy (Co-Chair), Krishna G. Palepu (Co-Chair), George Serafeim, and Rodrigo Verdi |
2017

Akash Chattopadhyay
Accounting & Management, 2017
Placement: | University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management, Accounting Department |
Dissertation: | Essays on the Role of Accounting Information in Governance and Valuation |
Advisors: | Paul M. Healy (Chair), Ian Gow, Suraj Srinivasan, and N/A |

Henry Eyring
Accounting & Management, 2017
Placement: | London School of Economics, Accounting Department |
Dissertation: | Private and Public Performance Reports as Drivers of Performance and Determinants of Performance Measure Information Content |
Advisors: | Dennis Campbell (Chair), V.G. Narayanan, Srikant M. Datar, and Ananth Raman |

Rajesh Vijayaraghavan
Accounting & Management, 2017
Placement: | University of British Columbia, Sauder School of Business |
Dissertation: | Essays in Bank Accounting and Regulation |
Advisors: | Paul M. Healy (Co-Chair), V.G. Narayanan (Co-Chair), Ian Gow, and David S. Scharfstein |
2016

Shelley Xin Li
Accounting & Management, 2016
Placement: | University of Southern California, Leventhal School of Accounting |
Dissertation: | Management Control and Employee-driven Innovation |
Advisors: | Dennis Campbell, Srikant M. Datar, and V.G. Narayanan |

Sa-Pyung (Sean) Shin
Accounting & Management, 2016
Placement: | Singapore Management University, School of Accountancy |
Dissertation: | Essays on Corporate Governance and Shareholder Activism 1) Takeover Defenses in the Era of Shareholder Activism 2) Consequences to Directors of Shareholder Activism 3) Activist Directors: Determinants and Consequences |
Advisors: | Suraj Srinivasan, Paul M. Healy, and Ian Gow |
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2020

Edoardo Maria Acabbi
Business Economics, 2020
Placement: | University Carlos III of Madrid |
Dissertation: | Essays in macroeconomics, corporate finance and labor economics |
Advisors: | Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Jeremy Stein, Emmanuel Farhi, and Samuel G. Hanson |

Xiang Ding
Business Economics, 2020
Placement: | Georgetown University, Walsh School of Foreign Service |
Dissertation: | Essays on Firms, Production, and Trade |
Advisors: | Pol Antràs, Elhanan Helpman, Marc Melitz, and Emmanuel Farhi |

Michael Thaler
Business Economics, 2020
Placement: | Princeton University, Economics Department |
Dissertation: | Essays on Belief Formation and Political Polarization |
Advisors: | Matthew Rabin, Alberto Alesina, David Laibson, and Christine L. Exley |
2019

Christopher Anderson
Business Economics, 2019
Placement: | Federal Reserve Board of Governors |
Dissertation: | Essays in Financial Economics |
Advisors: | John Campbell, Matteo Maggiori, and Malcolm P. Baker |

Vitaly Bord
Business Economics, 2019
Placement: | Harvard Business School, Postdoctoral fellow (2018-2019), Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Economist (2019) |
Dissertation: | Essays in Financial Intermediation |
Advisors: | David S. Scharfstein, Victoria Ivashina, and Adi Sunderam |

Oren Danieli
Business Economics, 2019
Placement: | Tel-Aviv University, School of Economics |
Dissertation: | Essays on Income Inequality |
Advisors: | Lawrence Katz, Roland Fryer, and Chiara Farronato |

Yizhou Jin
Business Economics, 2019
Placement: | UC Berkeley, Economics Department & Haas School of Business |
Dissertation: | Essays on Industrial Organization and the Digital Economy |
Advisors: | Ariel Pakes, Leemore S. Dafny, Nathan Hendren, Robin Lee, and N/A |

Weiling Liu
Business Economics, 2019
Placement: | Northeastern University, Finance Department |
Dissertation: | Essays on Financial Intermediaries and Market Frictions |
Advisors: | John Campbell (Co-chair), Robin Greenwood (Co-Chair), Lauren H. Cohen, and Adi Sunderam |

Janelle Schlossberger
Business Economics, 2019
Placement: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institute for Data, Systems and Society |
Dissertation: | Mapping Networks to Probability Distributions in the Economy |
Advisors: | Emmanuel Farhi, Xavier Gabaix, David Laibson, and Tomasz Strzalecki. |
2018

William Diamond
Business Economics, 2018
Placement: | University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School, Finance Department |
Dissertation: | Essays on Financial Intermediation and Econometrics |
Advisors: | David S. Scharfstein (Chair), Jeremy Stein, Samuel G. Hanson, and Adi Sunderam |

Anastassia Fedyk
Business Economics, 2018
Placement: | University of Berkeley, Haas School of Business, Finance Department |
Dissertation: | Essays on Information in Financial Markets |
Advisors: | David Laibson (Co-chair), Andrei Shleifer (Co-chair), John Campbell, and Christopher J. Malloy |

Yueran Ma
Business Economics, 2018
Placement: | University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, Finance Department |
Dissertation: | Empirical Analyses in Finance and Macroeconomics |
Advisors: | Andrei Shleifer, Edward Glaeser, Samuel G. Hanson, and Alp Simsek |

Neil Thakral
Business Economics, 2018
Placement: | Brown University, Economics Department |
Dissertation: | Essays on Economic Behavior and Design |
Advisors: | Lawrence Katz, Scott Duke Kominers, Matthew Rabin, and Andrei Shleifer |
2017

Diana Moreira
Business Economics, 2017
Placement: | University of California, Davis, Department of Economics |
Dissertation: | On Government Effectiveness: Organizational and Governance Limitations on the Delivery of Education |
Advisors: | Lawrence Katz (Chair), Roland Fryer, Edward Glaeser, and Gautam Rao |

Mingzhu Tai
Business Economics, 2017
Placement: | University of Hong Kong, School of Business |
Dissertation: | Essays in Consumer and Small Business Finance |
Advisors: | David S. Scharfstein (Chair), J.Campbell, D.Laibson, and Adi Sunderam |
2016

Xavier Jaravel
Business Economics, 2016
Placement: | Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016-2017; London School of Economics, 2017 |
Dissertation: | Essays in the Economics of Innovation |
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Rohan Kekre
Business Economics, 2016
Placement: | University of Chicago, Booth School of Business |
Dissertation: | Essays on Macroeconomic Stabilization |
Advisors: | E. Farhi, G.Gopinath, R.Chetty, and G.Chodorow-Reich |

Benjamin Lockwood
Business Economics, 2016
Placement: | University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School, Business Economics and Public Policy Department |
Dissertation: | Essays in Optimal Taxation |
Advisors: | R. Chetty, N. Hendren, D. Laibson, and N/A |

Filippo Mezzanotti
Business Economics, 2016
Placement: | Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, Finance Department |
Dissertation: | Essays in Corporate Finance |
Advisors: | Josh Lerner, David S. Scharfstein, A.Shleifer, and N/A |
2015
Benjamin Hebert
Business Economics, 2015
Placement: | Stanford Graduate School of Business, Finance Department |
Dissertation: | Essays on Information and Debt |
Advisors: | E. Farhi, D. Laibson, David S. Scharfstein, J. Campbell, and P. Aghion |
Assaf Romm
Business Economics, 2015
Placement: | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Dissertation: | Essays on Microeconomic Theory |
Advisors: | A. Roth (Chair), I. Ashlagi, D. Fudenberg, and A. Hassidim |
Martin Rotemberg
Business Economics, 2015
Placement: | Brown University, Watson Institute, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2015-2016; Brown University, Assistant Professor, 2016 |
Dissertation: | Essays in Industrial Policy and Communication |
Advisors: | R. Hornbeck (Chair), M. Kremer, R. Pande, and Shawn A. Cole |
Ran Shorrer
Business Economics, 2015
Placement: | Pennsylvania State University, Economics Department |
Dissertation: | Essays on Indices and Matching |
Advisors: | E. Maskin (Co-chair), A. Roth (Co-chair), and I. Ashlagi |
Thomas Wollmann
Business Economics, 2015
Placement: | University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Microeconomics Group |
Dissertation: | Essays on Industrial Organization |
Advisors: | A.Pakes (Chair), Juan Alcacer, G. Lewis, and N/A |
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2020

Lauren Taylor
Health Policy (Management), 2020
Placement: | New York University, School of Medicine |
Dissertation: | Ethical and Strategic Issues in Non-Profit Resource Management |
Advisors: | David M. Cutler (Chair), Nien-he Hsieh, Christopher Winship, and Margaret E. Kruk |
2019

Philip Saynisch
Health Policy (Management), 2019
Placement: | Phyllis Torda Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Committee for Quality Assurance, 2019 |
Dissertation: | Unpacking Dimensions of Performance in Healthcare Delivery |
Advisors: | Robert S. Huckman, Guy David, and Ariel D. Stern |
2018

Michaela Kerrissey
Health Policy (Management), 2018
Placement: | Harvard Chan School of Public Health |
Dissertation: | Integrating across boundaries: Behaviors, processes and structures that enable integrated services |
Advisors: | Amy C. Edmondson (Chair), S.Singer, Tsedal Neeley, and J.Clark |
2017

Hummy Song
Health Policy (Management), 2017
Placement: | University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School, Operations, Information and Decisions Department |
Dissertation: | Drivers of Physician Productivity and Performance: The Role of Queuing Systems, Relative Performance Feedback, and Cohort Turnover |
Advisors: | Robert S. Huckman (Co-Chair), A. Tucker (Co-Chair), Ryan W. Buell, and S.Singer |
2015

Scott Lee
Health Policy (Management), 2015
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2019

Michael Y. Lee
Management, 2019
Placement: | INSEAD, Organizational Behavior Area |
Dissertation: | Self-Managing Organizations: Exploring the Dynamics and Consequences of Radically Decentralizing Authority |
Advisors: | Amy C. Edmondson (Chair), Leslie A. Perlow, and Teresa M. Amabile |
2018

Johnathan Cromwell
Management, 2018
Placement: | University of San Francisco |
Dissertation: | Dynamic Problem Solving for Breakthrough Innovation: The Case of a Social Robot |
Advisors: | Teresa M. Amabile (Co-Chair), H.Gardner (Co-Chair), Michael L. Tushman, and S. Harrison |

Paul Green
Management, 2018
Placement: | University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business |
Dissertation: | The Ties that Bind Us: The motivational potential of close relationships at work |
Advisors: | Francesca Gino, B.Staats, Amy C. Edmondson, and Kathleen L. McGinn |
2017

Michele Rigolizzo
Management, 2017
Placement: | Montclair State University, Management Department |
Dissertation: | Individual Self-Directed Learning Behaviors: A Measure, Model, and Field Experiment Examining How Working Adults Learn |
Advisors: | Teresa M. Amabile (Chair), Amy C. Edmondson, and Ethan S. Bernstein |
2016

Patricia Satterstrom
Management, 2016
Placement: | New York University, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service |
Dissertation: | How Micro-Processes Change Social Hierarchies in Teams 1) Toward a More Dynamic Conceptualization of Social Hierarchy in Teams 2) Microwedges: Moving Teams from Rigid to Dynamic Social Hierarchy 3) The Changing Nature of Social Hierarchy and Voice |
Advisors: | Jeffrey T. Polzer (Chair), Leslie A. Perlow, A. Knight, H.Gardner, and S. Singer |
2015
Elizabeth Altman
Management, 2015
Placement: | University of Massachusetts (Lowell) |
Dissertation: | Platform and Ecosystem Transitions: Strategic and Organizational Implications |
Advisors: | Michael L. Tushman, N/A, M. Tripsas, and K. Kellogg |
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2020

Dafna Goor
Marketing, 2020
Placement: | London Business School |
Dissertation: | Branding in the New World: How Accessible Information, Social Media, and Changing Values Impact Symbolic Consumption |
Advisors: | Anat Keinan (Co-Chair), Michael I. Norton (Co-Chair), Carey Morewedge, and John T. Gourville |
2018

Grant Donnelly
Marketing, 2018
Placement: | The Ohio State University, Fisher School of Business |
Dissertation: | Essays on Enhancing Consumer Welfare |
Advisors: | Michael I. Norton (Chair), Leslie K. John, and Cait Lamberton |
2017

Tami Kim
Marketing, 2017
Placement: | University of Virginia, Darden School of Business |
Dissertation: | Implicit Contracts and Consumer Behavior |
Advisors: | Michael I. Norton (Chair), Leslie K. John, John T. Gourville, and Ryan W. Buell |
2016

Kate Barasz
Marketing, 2016
Placement: | IESE Business School |
Dissertation: | The Continuum of Choice: Essays on How Consumer Decisions are Made, Changed, and Perceived |
Advisors: | Michael I. Norton (Chair), Leslie K. John, and John T. Gourville |

Pavel Kireyev
Marketing, 2016
Placement: | INSEAD, Marketing Department |
Dissertation: | Essays on the Design and Industrial Organization of Online Markets |
Advisors: | Elie Ofek, Sunil Gupta, and Ariel Pakes |

Bhavya Mohan
Marketing, 2016
Placement: | University of San Francisco, Marketing Department |
Dissertation: | Lifting the Veil: Essays on Firm Transparency and Consumer Behavior |
Advisors: | Rohit Deshpande (Chair), Ryan W. Buell, and Leslie K. John |

Lingling Zhang
Marketing, 2016
Placement: | University of Maryland, Marketing Department |
Dissertation: | Essays on Online and Multi-Channel Marketing |
Advisors: | Doug J. Chung (Co-Chair), Anita Elberse (Co-Chair), and Sunil Gupta |
2015
Silvia Bellezza
Marketing, 2015
Placement: | Columbia Business School, Marketing Department |
Dissertation: | Symbolic Consumption and Alternative Signals of Status |
Advisors: | Anat Keinan, (Chair), Francesca Gino, and John T. Gourville |
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2020

Yanhua Bird
Organizational Behavior, 2020
Placement: | Boston University, Questrom School of Management |
Dissertation: | Social Evaluation Dynamics in Global Platform Markets |
Advisors: | Julie Battilana (Chair), Ya-Wen Lei, Christopher Marquis, and Michael W. Toffel |

Leroy Gonsalves
Organizational Behavior, 2020
Placement: | Boston University, Questrom School of Business |
Dissertation: | Contentious Practices and Reputational Threat |
Advisors: | Julie Battilana (Co-Chair), Frank Dobbin (Co-chair), Alexandra Killewald, and Andras Tilcsik |

Karen Huang
Organizational Behavior, 2020
Placement: | Georgetown University, McCourt School of Public Policy |
Dissertation: | Veil-of-Ignorance Reasoning and Justification of Moral Judgments |
Advisors: | Alison Wood Brooks, Max H. Bazerman, Joshua D. Greene, and Michael I. Norton |

Jeffrey Lees
Organizational Behavior, 2020
Placement: | Clemson University |
Dissertation: | The Consequences of Inaccurate Group Meta-Perception |
Advisors: | Francesca Gino, Mina Cikara, and Adam Waytz |
2019

Alicia DeSantola
Organizational Behavior, 2019
Placement: | University of Washington, Foster School of Business, Department of Management and Organization |
Dissertation: | The Dynamics of New Venture Development: Scaling and Entrepreneurial Teams |
Advisors: | Ranjay Gulati (Chair), Laura Huang, Rory M. McDonald, and F.Dobbin |

Stefan Dimitriadis
Organizational Behavior, 2019
Placement: | University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management |
Dissertation: | Entrepreneurship and the institutional environment of developing markets: Three studies about entrepreneurship in Togo |
Advisors: | Julie Battilana, M.Sengul, Rembrand M. Koning, and P.Marsden |

Alexandra Feldberg
Organizational Behavior, 2019
Placement: | Harvard Business School |
Dissertation: | Butchers, Bakers, and Barcharts: Gender and Knowledge in a Grocery Chain |
Advisors: | Kathleen L. McGinn, Michael L. Tushman, F.Dobbin, and P.Marsden |

Catarina Fernandes
Organizational Behavior, 2019
Placement: | Emory University, Goizueta Business School |
Dissertation: | The Dynamic Nature of Status Across Groups: Status Spillovers, Variance, and Disagreements |
Advisors: | Jeffrey T. Polzer, Lakshmi Ramarajan, Alison Wood Brooks, and S.Jang |

Elizabeth Hansen
Organizational Behavior, 2019
Placement: | Harvard Kennedy School, The Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy, Research Fellow |
Dissertation: | Institutional Leadership, Innovation, and Organizational Change during Technical Transitions: A Study of Digital Transformation in Public Radio |
Advisors: | Michael L. Tushman (Chair), Julie Battilana, Leslie A. Perlow, and C.Winship |

Martha Jeong
Organizational Behavior, 2019
Placement: | Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST), Management Department |
Dissertation: | “What you heard vs. what I said: Mis-predicted consequences in goal driven interactions” |
Advisors: | Francesca Gino, J.Minson, Leslie K. John, and Laura Huang |
2018

Rachel Arnett
Organizational Behavior, 2018
Placement: | University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School |
Dissertation: | Cultivating Inclusion: Navigating Diversity through Expressing and Concealing Social Identity Differences in Interpersonal Interactions |
Advisors: | Robin J. Ely (Chair), Kathleen L. McGinn, Lakshmi Ramarajan, J. Sidanius, and Francesca Gino |
2017

Andrew Brodsky
Organizational Behavior, 2017
Placement: | University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business |
Dissertation: | The Astute Communicator: Strategic Choices and Consequences of Goal-Oriented Workplace Communication |
Advisors: | Teresa M. Amabile (Chair), Joshua D. Margolis, A. Grant, and Francesca Gino |

Curtis Chan
Organizational Behavior, 2017
Placement: | Boston College, Management and Organization Department |
Dissertation: | Organizational Culture Gone Awry: The Double-Edged Sword of Ambiguity |
Advisors: | M.Anteby (Co-Chair), Leslie A. Perlow, and F. Dobbin and C. Winship |

Ryann Manning
Organizational Behavior, 2017
Placement: | University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management |
Dissertation: | Organizing for Resilience: Mobilization by Sierra Leonean Diaspora Communities in Response to the 2014-2015 Ebola Crisis |
Advisors: | M.Lamont (Co-chair), Kathleen L. McGinn (Co-Chair), Julie Battilana, and J.Viterna |

Ovul Sezer
Organizational Behavior, 2017
Placement: | University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School, Organizational Behavior Department |
Dissertation: | Misguided Self-Presentation: “The Ironic Consequences of Humblebragging, Backhanded Compliments and Namedropping |
Advisors: | Max H. Bazerman (Co-Chair), Francesca Gino (Co-Chair), Michael I. Norton, and Alison Wood Brooks |

Elizabeth Baily Wolf
Organizational Behavior, 2017
Placement: | INSEAD, Organizational Behavior Department |
Dissertation: | Emotion as Performance Feedback: (Mis)Inferring Work Quality from Evaluators’ Affect |
Advisors: | Robin J. Ely (Co-Chair), N/A, Alison Wood Brooks, and Michael I. Norton |
2015

Ting Zhang
Organizational Behavior, 2015
Placement: | Columbia Business School, Management Department Postdoctoral Fellow, 2015-2018; Harvard Business School (2018) |
Dissertation: | The Personal and Interpersonal Benefits of Rediscovery |
Advisors: | Francesca Gino (Chair), Max H. Bazerman, Michael I. Norton, and Joshua D. Margolis |
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2020

Hyunjin Kim
Strategy, 2020
Placement: | INSEAD |
Dissertation: | Field Experiments on the Barriers Firms Face in Realizing Gains from Data |
Advisors: | Dennis A. Yao (Chair), Rebecca M. Henderson, Michael Luca, and Amanda Pallais |
2019

J. Yo-Jud Cheng
Strategy, 2019
Placement: | University of Virginia, Darden School of Business, Strategy, Ethics & Entrepreneurship Area |
Dissertation: | Decisions and Dynamics in the Upper Echelons: Implications for Firm Governance, Strategy, and Performance |
Advisors: | Boris Groysberg (Chair), Jan W. Rivkin, and Paul M. Healy |

Do Yoon Kim
Strategy, 2019
Placement: | Boston College, Carroll School of Management, Information Systems Department |
Dissertation: | Knowledge flows across firm boundaries: Strategic implications of openness |
Advisors: | Shane M. Greenstein, Carliss Y. Baldwin, N/A, and Prithwiraj Choudhury |
2018

Jasmina Chauvin
Strategy, 2018
Placement: | Georgetown University, McDonough School of Business |
Dissertation: | Essays on Strategy, Geography and Firm Performance |
Advisors: | Juan Alcacer (Chair), Laura Alfaro, and William R. Kerr |

Cheng Gao
Strategy, 2018
Placement: | University of Michigan, Ross School of Business, Strategy Area |
Dissertation: | Strategy and Entrepreneurship in Nascent Industries |
Advisors: | Rory M. McDonald (Chair), Jan W. Rivkin, and Michael L. Tushman |

Christopher Poliquin
Strategy, 2018
Placement: | University of California at Los Angeles, Anderson School of Management, Strategy Department |
Dissertation: | Essays in Strategy and Microeconomics |
Advisors: | Shane M. Greenstein (Chair), Michael Luca, and Raffaella Sadun |

Mike Teodorescu
Strategy, 2018
Placement: | Boston College, Carroll School of Management, Department of Information Sciences |
Dissertation: | Knowledge Flows and IP Within and Across Firms – Economics and Machine Learning Approaches |
Advisors: | Tarun Khanna (Co-Chair), Shane M. Greenstein (Co-Chair), William R. Kerr, and N.Thompson |
2017


Nishani Siriwardane
Strategy, 2017
Placement: | NEOMA Business School, People and Organizations Department |
Dissertation: | Three Essays Exploring How Deeply Embedded Norms Shape the Experience of Individuals and Organizations During Times of Transition |
Advisors: | J.Siegel (Chair), M.Anteby, Julie Battilana, and Ethan S. Bernstein |
2016

Megan Lawrence
Strategy, 2016
Placement: | Vanderbilt University, Owen Graduate School of Management |
Dissertation: | Why Do Firm Practices Differ? Examining the Selection and Implementation of Organizational Practices |
Advisors: | Felix Oberholzer-Gee (Chair), Juan Alcacer, V. Bennett, and Jan W. Rivkin |

Juan Ma
Strategy, 2016
Placement: | INSEAD, Strategy Department |
Dissertation: | Competing Globally: Institutional Voids in Emerging Markets |
Advisors: | Tarun Khanna (Chair), N/A, and Rafael M. Di Tella |
2015
Andrea Hugill
Strategy, 2015
Placement: | Georgetown University McDonough School of Business, Visiting Assistant Professor |
Dissertation: | Strategies for the Non-Market Environment |
Advisors: | N/A, Juan Alcacer, and N/A |
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2020

Grace Gu
Technology & Operations Management, 2020
Placement: | Boston College, Carroll School of Management |
Dissertation: | Essays on Value Creation, Disintermediation, and Platform-Based Strategies |
Advisors: | Feng Zhu, Shane M. Greenstein, and Marco Iansiti |

Michelle Shell
Technology & Operations Management, 2020
Placement: | Boston University, Questrom School of Business |
Dissertation: | Emotion-sourced Variation in Service Operations |
Advisors: | Ryan W. Buell, Frances X. Frei, and Alison Wood Brooks |
2019

Ohchan Kwon
Technology & Operations Management, 2019
Placement: | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management |
Dissertation: | Essays on Entrepreneurship and Human Capital in Knowledge-Intensive Industries |
Advisors: | Shane M. Greenstein, Prithwiraj Choudhury, and N/A |
2018

Karthik Balasubramanian
Technology & Operations Management, 2018
Placement: | Howard University, School of Business |
Dissertation: | Mobile Money Agent Competition, Inventory Management and Pooling |

Maria Ibanez
Technology & Operations Management, 2018
Placement: | Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management |
Dissertation: | Behavioral drivers of process deviations and the effects on productivity and quality: Evidence from the field |
Advisors: | Ananth Raman (Chair), Michael W. Toffel, Robert S. Huckman, and B. Staats |
2016

Budhaditya Gupta
Technology & Operations Management, 2016
Placement: | University of Melbourne, Faculty of Business and Economics |
Dissertation: | Essays on External Context and Operating |
Advisors: | Tarun Khanna (Co-Chair), Stefan H. Thomke (Co-Chair), and Rory M. McDonald |
2015
Anil Doshi
Technology & Operations Management, 2015
Placement: | University College London, Department of Management Science and Innovation |
Dissertation: | Essays on Strategy and Management of Platforms |
Advisors: | S.Stern, L. Fleming, N/A, and N/A |

Hise Gibson
Technology & Operations Management, 2015
Placement: | U.S. Military Academy at West Point |
Dissertation: | Setting Employees up for Success |
Advisors: | Ananth Raman, Ryan W. Buell, and B. Staats |

Frank Nagle
Technology & Operations Management, 2015
Placement: | University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business |
Dissertation: | The Digital Commons: Tragedy or Opportunity? The Effect of Crowdsourced Digital Goods on Innovation and Economic Growth |
Advisors: | S.Greenstein (Co-chair), Marco Iansiti (Co-Chair), Carliss Y. Baldwin, Karim R. Lakhani, and N/A |
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