What We Do
Research Associates apply their unique skills and experiences to work that profoundly impacts both scholarship and teaching.
It’s a demanding, satisfying process, resulting in academically rigorous products that have the power to change business practice and thought across sectors and industries.
In this job you'll have the time and resources to dig deep into research, under the guidance of faculty who are thought leaders in fields ranging from entrepreneurship to finance to organizational behavior.
You may support faculty on a case focusing on a Fortune 500 company, a five-person start-up, or a nonprofit organization. Some researchers spend their time on a single book manuscript, while others support multiple deliverables including cases and teaching notes, podcasts and presentations, journals articles and white papers. You might join a project at its infancy, contributing to the experimental design or participant recruitment. Or you could be part of the final push to bring a paper across the finish line. Wherever you fit into the research process, your contributions help faculty generate knowledge that benefits both scholars and practitioners.
Our Research Associates strive to stay at the cutting edge of their field, which means this is a job where you'll always be learning. Your workload serves as on-the-job training in different research methodologies, library resources, data analysis, case writing, and software.
Expand your professional toolkit.
“I’ve had the amazing opportunity to build my skillset and confidence in qualitative research, from interviewing leaders across diverse organizations, industries, and sectors to co-authoring numerous case studies with faculty. Not one day in my role has been the same, and this has made it all the more engaging and dynamic.”
— Lydia Begag
Behind the scenes in the boardroom.
“As part of my job I have had the opportunity to interview industry leaders. By asking them what tough decisions they had to make and what kept them up at night, I’ve gained a greater knowledge about their work. This exposure has brought me close to the latest developments in my field.”
— Celine Chammas