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D. John Roberts
John H. Scully Professor of Economics, Strategic Management, and International Business and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs;
Codirector of the Executive Program in Strategy and Organization;
Professor of Economics (by courtesy), School of Humanities and Sciences;
Director of the Center for Global Business and the Economy;
Faculty Director of the Global Management Program;
BP Faculty Fellow in Global Management
John Roberts’ teaching and research involve the application of economic and strategic (game-theoretic) analysis to management problems. His specific areas of current interest involve international business, the organization of the firm, and the connection between strategy and organization. He also has published extensively on industrial competition, emphasizing how informational differences among various parties affect strategic behavior, and on complementarities as a driving force in organizational design and strategic choice. As well, he has helped develop new techniques for deriving robust conclusions from economic models. [View Profile]
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William P. Barnett
Thomas M. Siebel Professor of Business Leadership, Strategy, and Organizations; Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford; Director of the Center for Global Business and the Economy
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 environmental concerns. [View Profile]
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Robert A. Burgelman
Edmund W. Littlefield Professor of Management; Director of the Executing Strategic Change Executive Program; Executive Director of the Stanford Executive Program
Robert Burgelman carries out longitudinal field-based research on the role of strategy in firm evolution. He has examined how companies enter into new businesses (through corporate entrepreneurship and internal corporate venturing as well as through acquisition) and leave others (through strategic business exit), and how success may lead to co-evolutionary lock-in with the environment. His research has focused on organizations where strategic action is distributed among multiple levels of management. He has written some 100 case studies of companies in many different technology-based industries. He currently focuses on the challenges posed by nonlinear strategic dynamics. [View Profile]
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Chip Heath
Thrive Foundation for Youth Professor of Organizational Behavior
Chip Heath's research focuses on two general areas: What makes ideas succeed in the social marketplace of ideas, and how can people design messages to make them stick? How do individuals, groups, and organizations make important decisions and what mistakes do they make? [View Profile]
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David M. Kreps
Theodore J. Kreps Professor of Economics and Senior Associate Dean for
Academic Affairs, Stanford
Graduate School of Business; Morgan Stanley Director for the Center for Leadership Development and Research; Professor of Economics (by courtesy), School of
Humanities and Sciences
David Kreps is an economic theorist of international reputation whose path-breaking work concerns dynamic choice behavior and economic contexts in which dynamic choices are key. He has contributed to the literatures of axiomatic choice theory, financial markets, dynamic games, bounded rationality, and human resource management. [View Profile]
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Charles A. O'Reilly III
Frank E. Buck Professor of Management, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Hank McKinnell - Pfizer Inc Director of the Center for Leadership
Development and Research; Director of the Leading Change and Organizational Renewal Executive Program; Director of the Leading Change and Organizational Renewal for Teams Executive Program
Charles O’Reilly’s research includes studies of organizational culture, the management of human resources, and the impact of change and innovation on firms. His current research includes studies of leadership, organizational culture, the impact of senior management on innovation and change, and the management of human resources. His previous books include Winning Through Innovation: A Practical Guide to Leading Organizational Change and Renewal with M. Tushman (Harvard Business School Press, 2000) and Hidden Value: How Great Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People with J. Pfeffer (Harvard Business School Press, 2000). His next book, Ambidextrous Organizations: Resolving the Innovator’s Dilemma with M. Tushman, explores how managers can design organizations that can generate streams of innovation and deal with disruptive technological change. [View Profile]
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Jeffrey Pfeffer
Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior
Jeffrey Pfeffer has published extensively in the fields of organization theory and human resource management. His current research focuses on power and leadership in organizations, economics language and assumptions and their effects on management practice, how social science theories become self-fulfilling, barriers to turning knowledge into action and how to overcome them, and evidence-based management—what it is, barriers to its use, and how to implement it.
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Hayagreeva Rao
Atholl McBean Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources; Director of the Human Resources for Strategic Advantage Program; Director of the Customer-Focused Innovation Program
Professor Rao has published widely in the fields of management and sociology and studies the social and cultural causes of organizational change. In his research, he studies three sub-processes of organizational change: a) creation of new social structures, b) the transformation of existing social structures, and c) the dissolution of existing social structures. His recent work investigates the role of social movements as motors of organizational change in professional and organizational fields. [View Profile]
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Garth Saloner
Jeffrey S. Skoll Professor of Electronic Commerce, Strategic Management, and Economics; Director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies; Dhirubhai Ambani Faculty Fellow in Entrepreneurship for 2007-08
Economist Garth Saloner is known for his pioneering work on network effects, which underlie much of the economics of electronic commerce and business. Saloner’s research focuses on issues of entrepreneurship, e-commerce, strategic management, organizational economics, competitive strategy, and antitrust economics. Much of his recent work has been devoted to understanding how firms set and change strategy, in established firms and startups. [View Profile]
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Jesper B. Sorensen
Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, Associate Professor of Sociology (by courtesy), School of Humanities and Sciences
Jesper B. Sørensen specializes in the dynamics of organizational and strategic change, and their implications for individuals and their careers. His research on firm outcomes has focused on the impact of organizational structure and culture on organizational learning, performance and innovation. His work of the dynamics of teams has led to new insights concerning how people respond to changes in the racial composition of their workgroups. Currently, Sørensen is engaged in a large-scale project on the determinants of entrepreneurial behavior that examines several previously unanswered questions, such as how work environments shape rates of entrepreneurship. [View Profile]
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Romain Wacziarg
Associate Professor of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Moghadam Family Faculty Scholar for 2006-07
Romain Wacziarg is an expert on international political economy. He studies the determinants of economic development across countries. He has published research on how openness to trade affects the economic growth performance of nations, the rise and fall of industries, and the incentives of regions to secede politically. He has also written on the role of democratic institutions in economic development. His most recent project examines the impact of ethnic, linguistic, and religious diversity on a wide array of economic and political outcomes, chiefly economic growth. [View Profile]
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