Winner of the 2022 Strategy Science Conference Best Paper Award for “Beefing IT Up for Your Investor? Open Sourcing and Startup Funding: Evidence from GitHub” with Annamaria Conti and Christian Peukert.
Maria P. Roche
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Maria Roche is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches Strategy in the MBA required curriculum. Her research focuses on the sourcing, production and diffusion of knowledge, which she examines in various contexts including cities, co-working spaces, universities, and open source platforms. Her work, published at The Review of Economics and Statistics, Organization Science and Research Policy, has been featured in The Atlantic, and the WSJ. She serves on the editorial review boards of Organization Science, and Strategy Science.
Professor Roche earned her PhD in Management (Strategy and Innovation) at the Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology, where she was a recipient of a NSF Science of Science and Innovation Policy Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant. She earned an MS in Business Administration and a BA in International Cultural and Business Studies at the University of Passau, Germany. A native of Canada and Germany, Professor Roche has lived and worked in five countries gathering professional experience in various industries such as venture capital and film.
Maria Roche is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches Strategy in the MBA required curriculum. Her research focuses on the sourcing, production and diffusion of knowledge, which she examines in various contexts including cities, co-working spaces, universities, and open source platforms. Her work, published at The Review of Economics and Statistics, Organization Science and Research Policy, has been featured in The Atlantic, and the WSJ. She serves on the editorial review boards of Organization Science, and Strategy Science.
Professor Roche earned her PhD in Management (Strategy and Innovation) at the Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology, where she was a recipient of a NSF Science of Science and Innovation Policy Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant. She earned an MS in Business Administration and a BA in International Cultural and Business Studies at the University of Passau, Germany. A native of Canada and Germany, Professor Roche has lived and worked in five countries gathering professional experience in various industries such as venture capital and film.
- Journal Articles
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- Roche, Maria P. "Academic Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurial Advisors and Their Advisees' Outcomes." Organization Science 34, no. 2 (March, 2023): 959–986. View Details
- Roche, Maria P., and Andy Wu. "What's the Optimal Workplace for Your Organization?" Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (February 9, 2022). View Details
- Conti, Annamaria, and Maria P. Roche. "Lowering the Bar? External Conditions, Opportunity Costs, and High-Tech Startup Outcomes." Organization Science 32, no. 4 (July–August 2021): 965–986. View Details
- Roche, Maria P., Annamaria Conti, and Frank T. Rothaermel. "Different Founders, Different Firms: A Comparative Analysis of Academic and Non-academic Startups." Special Issue on Innovative Start-Ups and Policy Initiatives. Research Policy 49, no. 10 (December 2020). View Details
- Roche, Maria P. "Taking Innovation to the Streets: Micro-geography, Physical Structure and Innovation." Review of Economics and Statistics 102, no. 5 (December 2020): 912–928. View Details
- Working Papers
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- Conti, Annamaria, Vansh Gupta, Jorge Guzman, and Maria P. Roche. "Incentivizing Innovation in Open Source: Evidence from the GitHub Sponsors Program." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-014, September 2023. (NBER Working Paper Series, No. 31668, September 2023.) View Details
- Roche, Maria P., Alexander Oettl, and Christian Catalini. "(Co-) Working in Close Proximity: Knowledge Spillovers and Social Interactions." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-024, May 2020. (Revised February 2022.) View Details
- Brown, Daniel Jay, and Maria P. Roche. "Learning to Use: Stack Overflow and Technology Adoption." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-001, July 2023. View Details
- Marinoni, Astrid, and Maria P. Roche. "You've Got Mail! The Late 19th Century U.S. Postal Service Expansion, Entrepreneurship, and Firm Performance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-022, October 2022. (Revised September 2023.) View Details
- Brown, Daniel Jay, and Maria Roche. "The Ties That No Longer Bind: Inventor Mobility and Patent Litigation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-021, October 2022. View Details
- Conti, Annamaria, Christian Peukert, and Maria Roche. "Beefing IT Up for Your Investor? Open Sourcing and Startup Funding: Evidence from GitHub." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-001, July 2021. (Revised August 2023.) View Details
- Thursby, Jerry, Marie Thursby, Karim R. Lakhani, Kyle R. Myers, Nina Cohodes, Sarah Bratt, Dennis Byrski, Hannah Cohoon, and Maria Roche. "Scientific Production: An Exploration into Organization, Resource Allocation, and Funding." Working Paper, May 2020. View Details
- Cases and Teaching Materials
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- Roche, Maria P., and Alexander Farrow. "Accelerating AI Adoption in the U.S. Air Force." Harvard Business School Case 723-429, March 2023. View Details
- Roche, Maria P. "What is the Game? Understanding the Environment." Harvard Business School Module Note 723-405, December 2022. View Details
- Roche, Maria P., Tiona Zuzul, Exequiel Hernandez, and Amy Klopfenstein. "The Globalization of Manchester City Football Group." Harvard Business School Case 723-391, November 2022. (Revised January 2023.) View Details
- Roche, Maria P. "Walmart USA—Searching for Growth." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 723-390, November 2022. View Details
- Montgomery, Cynthia A., and Maria Roche. "Assets, Capabilities, and Other Resources." Harvard Business School Background Note 722-392, March 2022. View Details
- Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, and Maria P. Roche. "Walmart USA—Searching for Growth." Harvard Business School Case 722-395, January 2022. View Details
- Awards & Honors
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Winner of the 2021 Grigor McClelland Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies and the Journal of Management Studies.Winner of the 2021 Best Dissertation Award from the Technology and Innovation Management (TIM) Division of the Academy of Management.Winner of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Best Student Paper Award at the 19th Annual Roundtable for Engineering Entrepreneurship Research (REER) Conference in 2019.Winner of the 2019 Ashford Watson Stalnaker Memorial Award from the Scheller College of Business at Georgia Tech.Recipient of a NSF Science of Science and Innovation Policy Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation, 2019–2021.
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