William Barnett studies competition among organizations and how organizations and industries evolve over time. He has studied how strategic differences and strategic change among organizations affect their growth, performance, and survival. This research includes empirical studies of technical, regulatory, and ideological changes among organizations, and how these changes affect competitiveness over time and across markets. His studies span a range of industries and contexts, including organizations in computers, telecommunications, research and development, software, semiconductors, disk drives, newspaper publishing, beer brewing, banking, and the environment.[View Profile]

Phillip Leslie is an economist specializing in empirical industrial organization. His research has focused on two issues concerning the behavior of firms. Firstly on the role of information where he examines the effects of increasing the provision of information to consumers on their behavior as well as firms, the role of information entrepreneurs, and the potential for enhanced information provision to drive health improvements. In a second line of research, Phillip studies pricing strategies of firms: price discrimination, bundle pricing, and pricing with an active resale market. Phillip has also written papers on movie cofinancing, consumer boycotts, and managerial incentives in private equity portfolio companies. [View Profile]

Stephen R. Palumbi received is Ph.D. from University of Washington in marine ecology. His research group engages in the study of the genetics, evolution, conservation, population biology and systematics of a diverse array of marine organisms. Professor Palumbi's own research interests are similarly widespread, and he has published on the genetics and evolution of sea urchins, whales, cone snails, corals, sharks, spiders, shrimps, bryozoans, and butterflyfishes. A primary focus is the use of molecular genetic techniques in conservation, including the identification of whale and dolphin products available in commercial markets. Current conservation work centers on the genetics of marine reserves designed for conservation and fisheries enhancement, with projects in the Philipppines, Bahamas and western US coast. In addition, basic work on the molecular evolution of reproductive isolation and its influence on patterns of speciation uses marine model systems such as sea urchins. This work is expanding our view of the evolution of gamete morphology and the genes involved. Steve's latest book The Evolution Explosion: How humans cause rapid evolutionary change shows how rapid evolution is central to emerging problems in modern society, and has been cited for its easy access for non-scientists. In Fall 2002, Steve appears in the TV series The Future is Wild, an computer-animated exploration of the possible courses of evolution in the next few hundred million years.[View Profile]

Erica Plambeck is an expert in manufacturing operations and supply chain management, and her current research focuses on environmental sustainability.[View Profile]

Stephen H. Schneider is the Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Professor of Biological Sciences, Professor by Courtesy of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Co-Director and Senior Fellow at the Center for Environmental Science and Policy in the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University. [View Profile]

Ken Shotts uses game theory to analyze how electoral rules structure voters’ influence on policy choices made by elected officials. He has published papers on a wide variety of topics, including presidential leadership, racial redistricting, term limits, signaling in repeated elections, statistical methodology, and the 2000 election controversy in Florida.

Professor Shotts teaches the the core MBA and Sloan classes on Strategy in the Business Environment. He also teaches a PhD class on Economic Analysis of Political Institutions.[View Profile]

Sarah A. Soule's research examines state and organizational-level policy change and diffusion, and the role social movements have on these processes. Current projects include an NSF-funded analysis of advocacy group effects on environmental legislation in the US; an analysis of how protest impacts multi-national firm-level decisions regarding divestment in Burma; a study of how protest affects the outcomes of shareholder resolutions; and an analysis of how protest affects stock prices of targeted firms. She is currently working on a book for Cambridge University Press, tentatively titled Private and Contentious Politics and Corporate Social Responsibility. Recent published work has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, Administrative Science Quarterly, the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, and the Annual Review of Sociology. [View Profile]

A leading expert in environmental and natural resources law and policy, Barton H. “Buzz” Thompson JD/MBA ’76 (BA ’72) has contributed a large body of scholarship on environmental issues ranging from the future of endangered species and fisheries to the use of economic techniques for regulating the environment. He is the founding director of the law school’s Environmental and Natural Resources Program, Perry L. McCarty Director of the Woods Institute for the Environment, and a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.[View Profile]