Alumni
Christopher B. Bingham (graduated 2005)
Dissertation: Learning from heterogeneous experience: The internationalization of entrepreneurial firms
Employment: Chris is currently an Assistant Professor at University of North Carolina.
Awards: Carolyn Dexter Best International Paper Award
Eric Chen (graduated 2007)
Dissertation: Strategy as Competitive Moves: Extending Competitive Dynamics Research to New Markets and New Moves
Employment: Halozyme Therapeutics
Jason Davis (graduated 2007)
Dissertation: Collaborative Innovation, Organizational Symbiosis, and the Embeddedness of Strategy
Employment: Jason is currently the Theodore T. Miller Career Development Professor and Assistant Professor of Strategy at MIT.
Awards: Academy of Management OMT Best Paper Award
Fabrizio Ferraro (graduated 2003)
Dissertation: Leveraging Social Networks: Early Stage Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley
Employment: Fabrizio is currently an Assistant Professor at IESE.
Awards: AMR Best Paper
Nathan Furr (graduated 2009)
Dissertation: Cognitive Flexibility: The Adaptive Reality of Concrete Organization Change
Employment: Nathan is currently an Assistant Professor at Brigham Young University.
Liz Gerber (graduated 2008)
Dissertation: Devotion to an Innovation Process: The Case Study in Human Centered Design
Employment: Liz is currently an Assistant Professor at the Segal Design Institute in the McCormick School of Engineering with a courtesy appointment at the Kellogg School of Management
Stine Grodal (graduated 2007)
Dissertation: The Emergence of a New Organizational Field - Labels, Meaning and Emotion in Nanotechnology
Employment: Stine is currently an Assistant Professor at Boston University.
Melissa Graebner (graduated 2001)
Dissertation: Decision-Making, Negotiation and Integration Issues in Acquisitions of High-Tech Start-ups
Employment: Melissa is currently an Assistant Professor at UT Austin.
Benjamin Hallen (graduated 2007)
Dissertation: The Origin of the Network Positions of New Organizations - How Entrepreneurs Raise Funds
Employment: Ben is currently an Assistant Professor at University of Maryland.
Awards: TIM Best Dissertation, BPS Best Dissertation (finalist), BPS Best Student Paper (finalist)
Andy Hargadon (graduated 1998)
Dissertation: The Origin of the Network Positions of New Organizations - How Entrepreneurs Raise Funds
Employment: Andy is currently an Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at UC Davis.
Jeff Martin (graduated 2002)
Dissertation: Where are All the Synergies?: The Co-evolution of Cross-business Synergies in the New Economy
Employment: Jeff is currently an Assistant Professor at UT Austin.
Awards: Schendel SMS Best Paper, BPS Ghoshal Award
Mark Mortensen (graduated 2003)
Dissertation: Antecedents of Boundary Disagreement in Distributed and Collocated Teams
Employment: Mark is currently an Assistant Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Ralph Maurer (graduated 2008)
Dissertation:Tweaking the Iconic: The Management of Continuity-Constrained Resources
Employment: Ralph is currently an Assistant Professor at Louisiana State University
Andrew Nelson (graduated 2007, post-doc 2008)
Employment: Andrew is currently an Assistant Professor at University of Oregon
Awards: Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellow
Gerardo Okhuysen (graduated 1999)
Employment: Gerardo is currently an Associate Professor David Eccles Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor Department of Management, University of Utah, and Associate Editor of AMR
Siobhan O'Mahony (graduated 2002)
Dissertation: The Co-evolution of the Open Source Community and Emerging Business Models
Employment: Siobhan is currently an Assistant Professor at UC Davis
Pinar Ozcan (graduated 2005)
Dissertation: Start-ups in nascent markets: Building a strong alliance portfolio from a low-power position
Employment: Pinar is currently an Assistant Professor at IESE.
Awards: BPS Best Dissertation (finalist)
Kelley Packalen (graduated 2004)
Dissertation: The Role of Founders in Entrepreneurial Science
Employment: Kelley is currently a professor at Queens University.
Keith Rollag (graduated 2000)
Dissertation: Newcomers, Oldtimers, and Relative Tenure: Organizational Assimilation as an Outcome of Social Comparison
Employment: Keith is currently an Associate Professor at Babson College.
Jeff Rosenberger (graduated 2004)
Dissertation: Nascent technology ventures and corporate venture funding
Employment: Nomis Solutions
Awards: Kaufman PhD Fellowship
Filipe M. Santos (graduated 2003)
Dissertation: The Management of Organizational Boundaries in High-Tech Industries
Employment: Filipe is currently an Assistant Professor at INSEAD.
Awards: ENT Best Dissertation (finalist), EMBA Best Teacher
Victor Seidel (graduated 2005)
Dissertation: Managing novel product concepts: A process theory
Employment: Victor is currently an Assistant Professor at Oxford.
Awards: TIM Best Dissertation (Finalist)
