- Coached 1-week executive education course on innovation and organizational change
- Led a group of executives to apply theories from LCOR (e.g., the congruence model) to analyze and solve their own organizational problems
Ryan Thomas Allen
Doctoral Student
Doctoral Student
Ryan is a 5th year PhD candidate studying strategy and innovation in organizations. He uses a mix of econometrics, qualitative field interviews, and computational social science techniques to explore how decision-making tools and culture influence innovation and competitive advantage in organizations. He is currently developing his dissertation, in which he investigates product innovation in highly data-driven organizational cultures.
Ryan is a 5th year PhD candidate studying strategy and innovation in organizations. He uses a mix of econometrics, qualitative field interviews, and computational social science techniques to explore how decision-making tools and culture influence innovation and competitive advantage in organizations. He is currently developing his dissertation, in which he investigates product innovation in highly data-driven organizational cultures.
Prior to joining HBS, Ryan graduated from Brigham Young University summa cum laude with a BS in Economics and minors in Mathematics and Strategy. While there, he co-authored several papers on the health and economic effects of air pollution. Ryan also worked as a business analyst at Amazon, as a nonprofit manager, and spent two years in Taiwan as a full-time service missionary for his church.
Ryan and his wife live in Cambridge MA with their 3 children.
- Journal Articles
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- Allen, Ryan, and Prithwiraj Choudhury. "Algorithm-Augmented Work and Domain Experience: The Countervailing Forces of Ability and Aversion." Organization Science 33, no. 1 (January–February 2022): 149–169. View Details
- McDonald, Rory, and Ryan T. Allen. "A Spanner in the Works: Category-Spanning Entrants and Audience Valuation of Incumbents." Strategy Science (forthcoming). View Details
- Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Ryan Allen, and Michael G. Endres. "Machine Learning for Pattern Discovery in Management Research." Strategic Management Journal 42, no. 1 (January 2021): 30–57. View Details
- Working Papers
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- Allen, Ryan. "If We Build It, Will They Come? The Market Size Paradox of Niche Market Innovations." Working Paper, March 2022. View Details
- Allen, Ryan. "Epistemic Plasticity and Innovation in Data-Driven Organizational Cultures." Working Paper, March 2022. View Details
- Cases and Teaching Materials
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- Khanna, Tarun, Ryan Allen, Adam Frost, and Wesley Koo. "Rural Taobao: Alibaba's Expansion into Rural E-Commerce." Harvard Business School Case 719-433, January 2019. (Revised October 2019.) View Details
- Teaching
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- Teaching fellow for course that uses the case method to teach data science in the context of people analytics
- Led weekly MBA student review sessions teaching statistics and the R programming language
- Teaching rating 6.5 / 7 (30 students)
- Course teaching fellow for course on strategy, entrepreneurship, and disruptive innovation
- Assisted preparing course materials; provided written feedback to students
- Awards & Honors
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Winner of the 2020 Strategic Management Society (SMS) Conference Best PhD Student Paper for “Algorithm-Augmented Work Performance and Domain Experience: The Countervailing Forces of Ability and Aversion” with Prithwiraj Choudhury.Winner of the Best Paper Award at the 2022 Wharton Innovation Doctoral Symposium for “Epistemic Plasticity and Innovation in Data-Driven Organizational Cultures.”
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