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Ryan Thomas Allen

Ryan Thomas Allen

Doctoral Student

Doctoral Student

Ryan is a 4th year PhD candidate in the Technology and Operations Management unit 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 methods influence the trajectory of organizations. He is currently developing his dissertation, in which he investigates product innovation in highly data-driven organizational cultures.
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Ryan is a 4th year PhD candidate in the Technology and Operations Management unit 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 methods profoundly influence the trajectory of 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 Boston with their 3 children.

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Journal Articles
Journal Articles

  • 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
Working Papers

  • Allen, Ryan, and Prithwiraj Choudhury. "Algorithm-Augmented Work Performance and Domain Experience: The Countervailing Forces of Ability and Aversion." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-073, October 2020. View Details
  • McDonald, Rory M., and Ryan T. Allen. "Category-spanning Entrants and Audience Valuation of Incumbents." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-109, April 2020. (Revised November 2020.) View Details

Cases and Teaching Materials
Cases and Teaching Materials

  • 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
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Ryan is a 4th year PhD candidate in the Technology and Operations Management unit 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 methods profoundly influence the trajectory of 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 Boston with their 3 children.

Journal Articles
  • 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
  • Allen, Ryan, and Prithwiraj Choudhury. "Algorithm-Augmented Work Performance and Domain Experience: The Countervailing Forces of Ability and Aversion." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-073, October 2020. View Details
  • McDonald, Rory M., and Ryan T. Allen. "Category-spanning Entrants and Audience Valuation of Incumbents." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-109, April 2020. (Revised November 2020.) View Details
Cases and Teaching Materials
  • 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
Research Summary
Overview
Ryan's research can be categorized under two broad streams. The first stream contributes to the literature on organizational innovation capabilities--how the structures and processes of established organizations can be designed to consistently innovate and adapt successfully. The second stream investigates how decision-making tools (in particular, algorithmic tools) influence worker decisions in organizations, and which workers are best able to effectively leverage those tools. Ryan's dissertation work lies at the intersection of these two broad streams of research. In his dissertation (still under development), Ryan uses a mix of econometrics, qualitative field interviews, and computational social science techniques to explore how decision-making tools and methods profoundly influence the trajectory of organizations. Specifically, he tracks successful product innovation in a large sample of CPG firms to measure how the evolution of data-driven cultures influence the kinds of product innovations that organizations produce.
Keywords: Innovation; Strategy; Technology; Disruption; Organizational Structure; Strategic Human Resource Management; Data Analytics
Teaching
Fall 2018 - Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (BSSE); HBS Elective Curriculum
  • Course teaching fellow for course on disruptive innovation
  • Assisted preparing course materials; provided written feedback to students
Leading with People Analytics; HBS Elective Curriculum
  • Teaching fellow for course on people analytics
  • Lead weekly MBA student review sessions teaching statistics and the R programming language
  • Assisit with preparing course materials
Awards & Honors
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.
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Area of Study
  • Technology and Operations Management
  • Innovation
Areas of Interest
  • innovation
  • organizational design
  • strategy
Additional Information
CV
Twitter
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Area of Study

Technology and Operations Management
Innovation

Areas of Interest

innovation
organizational design
strategy
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