Students on the Job Market

Learn more about Harvard Business School doctoral candidates currently on the job market.

Accounting & Management


Yiwei Li

Job Market Paper: Lateral Moves and Employee-Job Match Quality: Evidence from the Field
Faculty Advisors: Tatiana Sandino (Chair), Dennis Campbell, and Susanna Gallani
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Trang Nguyen

Job Market Paper: The Real Effects of Citizen-Generated Information: Evidence from Air Quality Monitoring
Faculty Advisors: Jonas Heese (Chair), George Serafeim, Shirley Lu, and Charles C.Y. Wang
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Albert Shin

Job Market Paper: Congressional Investigations and Firm Misconduct
Faculty Advisors: Jonas Heese (Chair), Joseph Pacelli, Eugene F. Soltes, and Charles C.Y. Wang
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Health Policy (Management)


Derrick Bransby

Job Market Paper: Provisional Commitment: How Innovation Teams Navigate Uncertainty
Faculty Advisors: Amy C. Edmondson (Chair), Matt Cronin, Chris Myers, and Michaela Kerrissey
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Olivia Zhao

Job Market Paper: Policy Incentives and Pharmaceutical Innovation
Faculty Advisors: Leemore S. Dafny (Chair), Amitabh Chandra, Leila Agha, and Mark Shepard
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Marketing


Magie Cheng

Job Market Paper: Balancing Engagement and Polarization: Multi-Objective Alignment of News Content Using LLMs
Faculty Advisors: Elie Ofek (Chair), Shunyuan Zhang, Sunil Gupta, and Hema Yoganarasimhan
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Organizational Behavior


Megan Gorges

Job Market Paper: Downshifting: Contending with Internalized Work Devotion in the Quest for More Free Time
Faculty Advisors: Jon M. Jachimowicz (Chair), Robin J. Ely, and Lakshmi Ramarajan
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Grace Mele-Cormier

Job Market Paper: Stretched Outside of My Comfort Zone: The Success of Leader–Initiated Stretchwork Depends on Leader Responsiveness
Faculty Advisors: Jeffrey T. Polzer (Chair), Ting Zhang, Lakshmi Ramarajan, and Daniel Cable
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Ryann Noe

Job Market Paper: Essays on Emergence in the Toy Industry
Faculty Advisors: Ryan L. Raffaelli (Chair), Tiona W. Zuzul, Mary Tripsas, and Frank Dobbin
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Samantha Smith

Job Market Paper: Alone at the Top: When Competition Makes Standing Out Worth Standing Alone
Faculty Advisors: Kathleen L. McGinn (Chair), Jeffrey T. Polzer, and Lakshmi Ramarajan
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Channing Spencer

Job Market Paper: Changemakers or Troublemakers? The Labor Market Consequences of Social Activism
Faculty Advisors: Robin J. Ely (Co-Chair), Frank Dobbin (Co-chair), Julie Battilana, and David Pedulla
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Yuval Spiegler

Job Market Paper: Attending to the Hierarchy: Job Seeker Responses to Diversity Signals and the Perpetuation of Labor Market Segregation
Faculty Advisors: Frank Dobbin (Chair), Lakshmi Ramarajan, and David Pedulla
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Strategy


Kyle Schirmann

Job Market Paper: Creativity, Information, and Strategy
Faculty Advisors: Tarun Khanna (Chair), Maria P. Roche, and Scott Stern
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Yifei Wu

Job Market Paper: Innovation Meets Incentives: Strategic Misalignment in Revenue-Based Financing
Faculty Advisors: Tarun Khanna (Chair), Eric J. Van den Steen, and Hong Luo
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Technology & Operations Management


Justine Boudou

Job Market Paper: Not All That Glitters is Gold: Firm Hiring in the Market for Knowledge Workers
Faculty Advisors: Kyle R. Myers (Chair), Maria P. Roche, and Shane M. Greenstein
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Matt DosSantos DiSorbo

Job Market Paper: Accuracy Obsession: Humans Prioritize Immaterial AI Accuracy Over Their Own Compensation — Unless We Educate Them
Faculty Advisors: Kris Johnson Ferreira (Chair), Iavor I. Bojinov, and Harang Ju
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