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Tradition of Success

 
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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Every year, the HBS Doctoral Programs produces an impressive list of students who are preparing to enter the job market. Find an outstanding candidate to fill a faculty position at your school.

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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, 2019-2024

Accounting & Management

2024

Yaxuan Chen

Accounting & Management, 2024
Placement: Cornell University, S.C. Johnson College of Business, Accounting Department
Dissertation: Leveraging Culture in Management Control Systems: Evidence From the Field
Advisors: Dennis Campbell (Chair), Susanna Gallani, Jonas Heese, and Wei Cai

Botir Kobilov

Accounting & Management, 2024
Placement: University of Texas at Dallas, Naveen Jindal School of Management, Accounting Department
Dissertation: Technology and Crowdsourced Information: Implications for Capital Markets and Regulatory Enforcement
Advisors: Charles C.Y. Wang (Chair), Jonas Heese, and Joseph Pacelli

2022

Wilbur Chen

Accounting & Management, 2022
Placement: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Dissertation: Equity Market Views and Digital Technology Investment in Non-IT Firms
Advisors: Suraj Srinivasan (Chair), Paul M. Healy, Charles C.Y. Wang, and Shane M. Greenstein

Hashim Zaman

Accounting & Management, 2022
Placement: Harvard University, Laboratory for Innovation Sciences at Harvard (LISH), Post-Doctoral Fellow
Dissertation: Top-Down Sabotage in Organizations
Advisors: V.G. Narayanan (Co-Chair), Tatiana Sandino (Co-Chair), Susanna Gallani, and Karim R. Lakhani

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 of Management, Accounting Department and University of Toronto, Mississauga, Department of Management (cross-appointment)
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
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Business Economics

2024

Martin Aragoneses

Business Economics, 2024
Placement: INSEAD, Department of Finance
Dissertation: The Firm Life Cycle and Macroeconomic Dynamics
Advisors: Ludwing Straub, Xavier Gabaix, and Gabriel Chodorow-Reich

Michael Blank

Business Economics, 2024
Placement: Stanford University, Graduate School of Business, Finance Academic Area
Dissertation: Essays in Financial and Labor Markets
Advisors: Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Jeremy Stein, Samuel G. Hanson, and Adi Sunderam

Jiafeng (Kevin) Chen

Business Economics, 2024
Placement: Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Post-Doctoral Fellow (2024-2025) Stanford University, Economics Department (2025-)
Dissertation: Essays in Econometrics
Advisors: Isaiah Andrews (Chair), Elie Tamer, Jesse M. Shapiro, and Edward Glaeser

Angela Ma

Business Economics, 2024
Placement: Boston College, Carroll School of Management, Finance Department
Dissertation: Essays in Financial Economics
Advisors: Jeremy Stein (Chair), Adi Sunderam, Robin Greenwood, Emily Williams, and Edward Glaeser

Kunal Sangani

Business Economics, 2024
Placement: Northwestern University, Economics Department
Dissertation: Prices: Determinants and Macroeconomic Implications
Advisors: Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Andrei Shleifer, Ludwig Straub, and David Baqaee

Hanbin Yang

Business Economics, 2024
Placement: London Business School, Finance Department
Dissertation: Essays in Finance and Industrial Organization
Advisors: John Campbell, Ariel Pakes, Robin Lee, Mark L. Egan, and Adi Sunderam

2023

John Conlon

Business Economics, 2023
Placement: Stanford University, Department of Economics, Post-Doctoral Fellow (2023-2024), Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Assistant Professor (2024)
Dissertation: Essays in Behavioral Economics
Advisors: Andrei Shleifer, Lawrence Katz,  Gautam Rao, and Katherine B. Coffman

Spencer Yongwook Kwon

Business Economics, 2023
Placement: Brown University, Department of Economics
Dissertation: Essays in Expectations and Asset Prices
Advisors: Andrei Shleifer, Samuel G. Hanson, Adi Sunderam, and Joshua R. Schwartzstein

Robert Minton

Business Economics, 2023
Placement: Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Economist
Dissertation: How the Price System Works: Evidence from Supply Chains and Price Controls
Advisors: Xavier Gabaix, Edward Glaeser, Andrei Shleifer, and Ludwig Straub

Erica Moszkowski

Business Economics, 2023
Placement: Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Economist
Dissertation: How the Price System Works: Evidence from Supply Chains and Price Controls
Advisors: Edward Glaeser, Ariel Pakes, Myrto Kalouptsidi, Robin Lee, and  Michael Luca

Daniel Ramos

Business Economics, 2023
Placement: John Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies
Dissertation: Essays in Spatial Economics and Development
Advisors: Pol Antras, Edward Glaeser, and  Gabriel Kriendler

Sagar Saxena

Business Economics, 2023
Placement: Yale University, Department of Economics, Post-Doctoral Fellow (2023-2024); University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School, Business Economics and Public Policy Department, Assistant Professor (2024)
Dissertation: Essays on State Interventions and Market Outcomes in Developing Economies
Advisors: Ariel Pakes (Chair), Emily Breza, Edward Glaeser, Myrto Kalouptsidi, and Gautam Rao

Ran Zhuo

Business Economics, 2023
Placement: University of Michigan, Ross School of Business, Post-Doctoral Fellow (2023-2024); Assistant Professor (2024)
Dissertation: Three Essays on Economics of Innovation, Technology, and Policy
Advisors: Shane M. Greenstein, Myrto Kalouptsidi, Robin Lee, Ariel Pakes, and Elie Tamer

2022

Francesca Bastianello

Business Economics, 2022
Placement: The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
Dissertation: Expectations in Finance and Macroeconomics: micro-foundations and macro implications
Advisors: John Campbell, Andrei Shleifer, Jeremy Stein, and Samuel G. Hanson

Talia B. Gillis

Business Economics, 2022
Placement: Columbia Law School, Associate Professor of Law
Dissertation: Essays in Household Finance and Consumer Protection
Advisors: John Beshears (Chair), David Laibson, Brigitte Madrian , and Gautam Rao

Matthew Lilley

Business Economics, 2022
Placement: Australian National University
Dissertation: Essays in Applied Microeconomics
Advisors: David Laibson (Chair), Andrei Shleifer, Edward Glaeser, and Gabriel Kreindler

Frank Pinter

Business Economics, 2022
Placement: Federal Trade Commission, Economist
Dissertation: Essays in Industrial Organization and Environmental Policy
Advisors: Ariel Pakes, Robin Lee, and Dennis A. Yao

Ron Yang

Business Economics, 2022
Placement: Stanford University, Graduate School of Business, Postdoctoral Scholar (2022-2023); University of British Columbia, Sauder School of Business, Assistant Professor (2023-)
Dissertation: Essays in Industrial Organization
Advisors: Mark L. Egan, Edward Glaeser, Myrto Kalouptsidi, Robin Lee, and Ariel Pakes

David Zhang

Business Economics, 2022
Placement: Rice University, Jones Graduate School of Business
Dissertation: Essays on the US Mortgage Market
Advisors: John Campbell (Chair), Adi Sunderam, Edward Glaeser, Robin Lee, and Ariel Pakes

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

Ravi Jagadeesan

Business Economics, 2020
Placement: Stanford University, Department of Economics, Post-Doctoral Fellow (2020-2022); Assistant Professor (2022-)
Dissertation: Market Design for Matching and Auctions
Advisors: Scott Duke Kominers,  Emmanuel Farhi, Jerry R. Green, Stefanie Stantcheva, and Alexander Teytelboym

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, Christine L. Exley, and Roland Benabou

2019

Christopher Anderson

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

Vitaly Bord

Business Economics, 2019
Placement: Harvard Business School, Post-Doctoral 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, Post-Doctoral fellow
Dissertation: Mapping Networks to Probability Distributions in the Economy
Advisors: Emmanuel Farhi, Xavier Gabaix, David Laibson, and Tomasz Strzalecki.
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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, David Bates, David Cutler, and  Julia 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,  Michaela Kerrissey, and Jay W. Lorsch

Michael Anne Kyle

Health Policy (Management), 2021
Placement: Harvard Medical School, Post-Doctoral fellow (2021-2024); University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Assistant Professor (2024-)
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 Post-Doctoral 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
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Management

2023

Laura Weimer

Management, 2023
Placement: United States Military Academy at West Point (2024-)
Dissertation: The dynamic nature of leader identity development
Advisors: Joshua D. Margolis (Co-Chair), Ting Zhang (Co-Chair), Ethan S. Bernstein, and Lakshmi Ramarajan

2022

Yusaku Takeda

Management, 2022
Placement: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Gies College of Business
Dissertation: Flexibility in Incumbent Organizations
Advisors: Ryan L. Raffaelli (Chair), Michael L. Tushman, and Mary Ann Glynn

2021

Michael Christensen

Management, 2021
Placement: University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business, Lecturer
Dissertation: Antecedents, Process, and Consequences: Strategic Choice in Organization
Advisors: Ranjay Gulati (Chair), Jan W. Rivkin, and Rory McDonald

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
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Marketing

2024

Jimin Nam

Marketing, 2024
Placement: Ohio State University, Max M. Fisher College of Business, Department of Marketing and Logistics
Dissertation: Communicating with consumers: How firms’ responses to societal change influence consumer behavior
Advisors: Michael I. Norton, Leslie K. John, and Elizabeth Keenan

2023

Emily Prinsloo

Marketing, 2023
Placement: Rice University, Jones Graduate School of Business
Dissertation: Three Essays on Cost-benefit Trade-offs in Individual and Organizational Decision-Making
Advisors: Michael I. Norton, Leslie K. John, Elizabeth Keenan, and Joachim Vosgerau

2022

Serena Hagerty

Marketing, 2022
Placement: University of Virginia, Darden School of Business
Dissertation: Who deserves what? How beliefs about fairness and inequality influence social judgment
Advisors: Michael I. Norton (Chair), Kate Barasz, and Debora Thompson

Byungyeon Kim

Marketing, 2022
Placement: University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management
Dissertation: Essays on Sales Management
Advisors: Doug Chung, Sunil Gupta, and Elie Ofek

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, Rebecca Ratner, and John T. Gourville

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
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Organizational Behavior

2024

Hanne Collins

Organizational Behavior, 2024
Placement: University of California, Los Angeles, Anderson School of Management, Management and Organizations Department
Dissertation: From Conversation to Connection: The Pragmatics of Conversational Listening
Advisors: Michael I. Norton, Alison Wood Brooks, Leslie K. John, and Julia Minson

Julie Yen

Organizational Behavior, 2024
Placement: Boston University, Questrom School of Business, Management and Organizations
Dissertation: Workers and the Pursuit of Social Objectives in Organizations
Advisors: Julie Battilana (Chair), Lakshmi Ramarajan, and Daniel Schneider

2023

Nicole Abi-Esber

Organizational Behavior, 2023
Placement: London School of Economics and Political Science, Organisational Behaviour, Assistant Professor
Dissertation: Conversational Cues, Interpersonal Judgements, and the Decision to Speak
Advisors: Alison Wood Brooks (Chair), Francesca Gino, Lindred Greer, and Ethan Burris

Evan DeFilippis

Organizational Behavior, 2023
Placement: Harvard University, Department of Psychology, Greene Lab, Post-Doctoral Fellow
Dissertation: Defusing Political Animosity with a Cooperative Quiz Game
Advisors: Joshua Greene (Chair), Mina Cikara, and Jeffrey T. Polzer

Jeff Steiner

Organizational Behavior, 2023
Placement: New York University, Stern School of Business, Assistant Adjunct Professor
Dissertation: Blurred Lines: On Issues of Personal Well-Being in Professional Life
Advisors: Lakshmi Ramarajan (Co-Chair), Francesca Gino (Co-Chair), and Teresa M. Amabile

Elliot Stoller

Organizational Behavior, 2023
Placement: University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, School of Government
Dissertation: Centralized Management in Democratic Governance – Essays on Organizing a System of Executive Branch Bureaucracies
Advisors: Julie Battilana (Chair), Bart Bonikowski, and Daniel Carpenter

2022

Hayley Blunden

Organizational Behavior, 2022
Placement: American University, Kogod School of Business
Dissertation: Barriers and Bridges to Developmental Information Transfer
Advisors: Francesca Gino (Chair), Alison Wood Brooks, and Leslie K. John

Ahmmad Brown

Organizational Behavior, 2022
Placement: Northwestern University, School of Education and Social Policy
Dissertation: Three papers on Black student well-being in HWCUs: Social capital, belonging and identity
Advisors: Frank Dobbin(Co-chair), Lakshmi Ramarajan (Co-Chair), and Alexandra C. Feldberg

Ariella Kristal

Organizational Behavior, 2022
Placement: Columbia Business School, Post-Doctoral fellow (2022-2024)
Dissertation: Essays on Precommitment
Advisors: Ashley V. Whillans (Co-Chair), Julian J. Zlatev (Co-Chair), Max H. Bazerman, Iris Bohnet, and David Laibson

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 Michele 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 McDonald, and Frank 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, Metin Sengul, Rembrand M. Koning, and Peter 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, Frank Dobbin, and Peter 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 Sujin 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 Christopher 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, Julia Minson, Leslie K. John, and Laura Huang
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Strategy

2024

Innessa Colaiacovo

Strategy, 2024
Placement: University of Oregon, Charles H. Lundquist College of Business, Management Department
Dissertation: Essays on Entrepreneurship and Labor Markets
Advisors: Rembrand M. Koning (Chair), William R. Kerr, and Shane M. Greenstein

Laura Katsnelson

Strategy, 2024
Placement: Senior Regional Economist, Department of Economic Research, Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Dissertation: Essays on Stakeholder Welfare & Equality
Advisors: Hong Luo, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, and Rebecca A. Karp

2023

Nataliya Langburd Wright

Strategy, 2023
Placement: Columbia Business School, Management Division
Dissertation: Where Growth Strategy Matters: Evidence from a Global Startup Field Study
Advisors: Tarun Khanna (Chair), Shane M. Greenstein, Laura Huang, and Rembrand M. Koning

2022

F. Christopher Eaglin

Strategy, 2022
Placement: Duke University, Fuqua School of Business, Post-Doctoral Fellow (2022-2023); Assistant Professor (2023-)
Dissertation: Into the Unknown: Exploring Entrepreneurship and Firm Performance in the Minibus Taxi Industry in South Africa
Advisors: Tarun Khanna (Chair), Dennis A. Yao, Michael Luca, and Frank Nagle

2021

Young Hou

Strategy, 2021
Placement: University of Virginia, Darden School of Business, Strategy, Ethics & Entrepreneurship Area
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
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Technology & Operations Management

2024

Maya Balakrishnan

Technology & Operations Management, 2024
Placement: University of Texas at Dallas, Naveen Jindal School of Management, Operations Management Area
Dissertation: Designing Operations to Inspire Trust
Advisors: Kris Johnson Ferreira (Chair), Ryan W. Buell, and Jordan Tong

Caleb Kwon

Technology & Operations Management, 2024
Placement: University of Texas at Austin, McCombs School of Business, Information, Risk and Operations Management Department
Dissertation: Essays on Labor Productivity in Retail Stores
Advisors: Ananth Raman (Chair), Antonio Moreno, and Jorge Tamayo

Daniel Yue

Technology & Operations Management, 2024
Placement: Georgia Institute of Technology, Scheller College of Business, Information Technology Management Department
Dissertation: Essays on Open Science and Open Software in Firm Innovation
Advisors: Shane M. Greenstein (Chair), Karim R. Lakhani, and Frank Nagle

2023

Ryan Allen

Technology & Operations Management, 2023
Placement: University of Washington, Foster School of Business
Dissertation: Essays on Data-Driven Product Innovation in Organizations
Advisors: Rory McDonald, Prithwiraj Choudhury, and Gary P. Pisano

2022

Tommy Pan Fang

Technology & Operations Management, 2022
Placement: Rice University, Jones Graduate School of Business
Dissertation: Technological Coordination of Platform Ecosystems
Advisors: Feng Zhu, Andy Wu, and Shane M. Greenstein

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
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