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Tradition of Success

 
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.
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.

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Placement, 2016-2021

Accounting & Management

2021

Patrick Ferguson

Accounting & Management, 2021
Placement: University of Melbourne, Melbourne Business School
Dissertation: Contests for Consumption: Empirical evidence from professional sports on contest theory”
Advisors: Dennis Campbell (Co-Chair),  Karim R. Lakhani (Co-Chair), and  Srikant M. Datar

Alexandra Scherf

Accounting & Management, 2021
Placement: London School of Economics and Political Science
Dissertation: Essays on Enforcement and Disclosure
Advisors: Eugene F. Soltes (Co-Chair),  Suraj Srinivasan (Co-Chair), and  Charles C.Y. Wang

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  Charles C.Y. Wang

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 , and  Paul M. Healy

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  Charles C.Y. Wang

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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Business Economics

2021

Andreas Schaab

Business Economics, 2021
Placement: Columbia University Business School, Post-doctoral fellow (2021-2022); Toulouse School of Economics, Assistant Professor (2022)
Dissertation: Essays in Macroeconomics
Advisors: Xavier Gabaix, Matteo Maggiori, and Ludwig Straub

Gregor Schubert

Business Economics, 2021
Placement: University of California-Los Angeles, Anderson School of Management
Dissertation: Essays in Housing and Regional Economics
Advisors: Jeremy Stein, Lawrence Katz, Edward Glaeser, and  Adi Sunderam

Karen Shen

Business Economics, 2021
Placement: Research Improving People’s Lives (RIPL), Economist (2021-2022); Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Assistant Professor (2022)
Dissertation: Essays in Public and Health Economics
Advisors: Leemore S. Dafny , David Cutler, and Edward Glaeser

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, Post-doctoral fellow (2020-2022); University College London, Assistant Professor (2022)
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, Post-doctoral Fellow (2019-2022); University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management and Economics Department (2022)
Dissertation: Essays on Industrial Organization and the Digital Economy
Advisors: Ariel Pakes,  Leemore S. Dafny , Nathan Hendren, Robin Lee, and  Dennis A. Yao

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 N/A

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
Advisors: R.Chetty, L. Katz, P. Aghion, E. Glaeser, and  Josh Lerner

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  Matthew C. Weinzierl

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
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Health Policy (Management)

2021

Emilie Aguirre

Health Policy (Management), 2021
Placement: Duke University School of Law
Dissertation: Pairing Purpose with Profit
Advisors: Julie Battilana (Chair),  Dutch Leonard , and A.J. Casey

A Jay Holmgren

Health Policy (Management), 2021
Placement: University of California-San Francisco, School of Medicine
Dissertation: Implementation and Management of Information Technology in Health Care Delivery
Advisors: Robert S. Huckman , D. Bates, D. Cutler, and J. Adler-Milstein

Olivia Jung

Health Policy (Management), 2021
Placement: Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health
Dissertation: Crowdsourcing and Engaging Employees in Innovation: Three Field Studies
Advisors: Amy C. Edmondson (Chair),  Karim R. Lakhani ,  M. Kerrissey, and  Jay W. Lorsch

Michael Anne Kyle

Health Policy (Management), 2021
Placement: Harvard Medical School
Dissertation: The Patient Role in Health Care Service Delivery
Advisors: Michael Chernew,  Robert S. Huckman , and  Jay W. Lorsch

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
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Management

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
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Marketing

2021

Ximena Garcia-Rada

Marketing, 2021
Placement: Texas A&M University, Mays Business School
Dissertation: Consumer Behavior in Close Relationships
Advisors: Michael I. Norton (Chair),  Leslie K. John ,  Ryan W. Buell ,  John T. Gourville , and R. Ratner

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
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Organizational Behavior

2021

Lumumba Seegars

Organizational Behavior, 2021
Placement: Harvard Business School
Dissertation: Sanctioned Radicals: A comparative study of gender and race employee resource groups in tech
Advisors: Robin J. Ely (Chair),  Lakshmi Ramarajan , and M. Lamont

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

Erin Frey

Organizational Behavior, 2018
Placement: University of Virginia, Darden School of Business, Post-doctoral Fellow (2018-2021), University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business , Assistant Professor (2021)
Dissertation: Repair, Restoration, and Reintegration Following Work-Related Failures
Advisors: Joshua D. Margolis ,  Ryan L. Raffaelli , and Michael Pratt

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), Amy Cuddy (Co-chair),  Alison Wood Brooks , and  Michael I. Norton
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Strategy

2021

Young Hou

Strategy, 2021
Placement: University of Virginia, Darden School of Business
Dissertation: The Interplay of Firm Positioning and Firm Resources
Advisors: Dennis A. Yao (Chair),  Juan Alcacer , and  Jan W. Rivkin

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 ,  Dennis A. Yao , 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

Jin Hyung Kim

Strategy, 2017
Placement: George Washington University, International Business Department
Dissertation: Essays in Nonmarket Strategy
Advisors: J.Siegel (Co-Chair),  Dennis A. Yao (Co-Chair), and S.Hiatt

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),  Dennis A. Yao , and  Rafael M. Di Tella

Sarah Wolfolds

Strategy, 2016
Placement: Cornell University, Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
Dissertation: Donations and Differentiation: Three Essays on Non-profit Strategy
Advisors: Dennis A. Yao (Chair),  Hong Luo , and J.Siegel
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Technology & Operations Management

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

Raha Imanirad

Technology & Operations Management, 2020
Placement: York University, Schulich School of Business
Dissertation: Essays on Emergency Department Physician Performance
Advisors: Ananth Raman ,  Ryan W. Buell , and Soroush Saghafian

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  Feng Zhu

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
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