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 approximately 100 case studies of companies in many different technology-based industries. He currently focuses on the challenges posed by nonlinear strategic dynamics.[View Profile]

Keith Krehbiel’s research is on political parties, lobbying, and governmental processes (legislative, executive, and judicial). He addresses these topics by developing and testing game-theoretic models of collective choice. Krehbiel has published over 50 research articles and two award-winning books: Information and Legislative Organization (Univ. of Michigan Press), and Pivotal Politics: A Theory of U.S. Lawmaking (Univ. of Chicago Press). He is also cofounder and editor-in-chief of the Quarterly Journal of Political Science.[View Profile]

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]

David Larcker’s research focuses on executive compensation, corporate governance, and managerial accounting. His work examines the choice of performance measures and compensation contracts in organizations. His current research projects include the valuation implications of corporate governance, the role of the business press in the debate on executive compensation, and modeling the cost of executive stock options.[View Profile]

Jim Lattin’s research examines consumer choice behavior. His early research involved building statistical models of brand choice, category purchase incidence, store choice, and market basket behavior, using grocery panel data collected using bar code scanners. More recently, Jim’s focus has expanded to consider customer relationship management and loyalty/reward programs using an increasingly wide set of sources including subscription data, financial services, and internet clickstream data.[View Profile]

Charles O’Reilly’s research includes studies of leadership, organizational culture and demography, the management of human resources, and the impact of change and innovation on firms. He has published widely in his field, including the books Winning Through Innovation: a Practical Guide to Leading Organizational Change and Renewal with M. Tushman (Harvard Business School Press, 2002) and Hidden Value: How Great Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results with Ordinary People with J. Pfeffer (Harvard Business School Press, 2000). His recent work investigates how managers can design organizations that can generate streams of innovation and deal with disruptive technological change.[View Profile]

George Parker’s teaching and research interests are primarily in the field of corporate finance, management of financial institutions, and corporate governance. He is the author of numerous case studies related to these subjects which are used in the MBA Program at Stanford and other schools. He has also authored several articles on capital structure, risk management, and corporate valuation.[View Profile]

James Patell’s research and teaching interests center on business process and product design, operations management, manufacturing, and cost accounting. A popular and demanding teacher, Patell has authored numerous articles in the field of accounting. During his tenure as associate dean for academic affairs in the GSB, he redesigned and revitalized the Public Management Program, which focuses on government, nonprofit organizations, and public service. Patell codirects the Product Realization Network at Stanford, and he is a founding faculty member of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford (the d-School), where he teaches courses on Design for Extreme Affordability.[View Profile]

Jeffrey Pfeffer has published extensively in the fields of organizational theory and human resource management. His current research focuses on the relationship between time and money, 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.[View Profile]

Madhav Rajan specializes in the economics-based analysis of management accounting issues. His work examines the optimal choice of information and incentive systems in firms and the rationale behind observed internal accounting practices. Rajan has done analytical, empirical, and field-based work on the role of incentives in supply chain contracting, the use of nonfinancial performance measures, and the value of “cost of quality” accounting systems in modern manufacturing environments. His recent work has focused on the links between economic and accounting profitability, the use of internal auction markets for resource allocation, and the usefulness of subjective measures of performance.[View Profile]

Hayagreeva 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]

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]

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]

George Foster’s research and teaching includes entrepreneurship/early-stage companies; financial analysis, especially in commercial disputes; and sports business management. His recent research includes the role of financial and other systems in the growth and valuation of companies. He also is researching globalization challenges facing both sporting organizations and companies.[View Profile]

Roderick Kramer’s research focuses on a number of topics, including the social psychology of trust and distrust, cooperation, creativity, decision making, leadership, impression management, social identity theory, group processes and decision making, and organizational paranoia. His most recent research has examined the cognitive determinants of judgments of creativity in Hollywood “pitch” meetings, where screenwriters present their ideas to agents and producers.[View Profile]

Haim Mendelson leads the School’s efforts in studying electronic business and its interaction with organizations and markets, and incorporating their implications into the School’s curriculum and research. His research interests include electronic commerce, organizational IQ, product and service pricing and customization, and electronic markets. He has introduced the "Organizational IQ" concept which quantifies an organization’s ability to use information to make quick and effective decisions. His papers have been published in leading journals in the areas of information systems, management science, finance, economics, and statistics.[View Profile]

Paul Pfleiderer’s research is primarily focused on issues arising in financial markets when traders are asymmetrically informed. He has developed theoretical models to analyze how information is incorporated in prices through trading and how information flows determine trading volume. He has also analyzed how information is sold to investors when the value of the information is reduced the more widely it is disseminated. In addition he has studied problems in measuring active funds’ performance, contracting concerns in venture financing, policy issues related to disclosure requirements, and explanations for the stock market crash of 1987. His current research concerns corporate governance.[View Profile]

Kathryn Shaw’s most recent research focuses on managing talent in high performance organizations. She studies how firms attract and build star talent in the software industry and in a range of knowledge-intensive industries. More broadly, Professor Shaw studies how companies can achieve measurable rates of return from investing in human resource management practices that are aimed at improving the performance of workers or teams of workers. She is identified as a co-developer of the field of “insider econometrics,” in which researchers use internal “inside” company data to study the performance gains from practices such as teamwork and incentive pay.[View Profile]

Jesper 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 on 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]

“Seenu” Srinivasan’s expertise is in the area of market research. In particular, he is best known for his research in “conjoint analysis.” This survey-based research approach is useful for product (or service) planning and pricing by predicting which among several multi-attribute products or services customers are likely to choose. Every year more than 10,000 commercial applications of conjoint analysis methods occur. His other research interests are new product development, the measurement of brand equity, and market structure analysis (the nature and magnitude of substitutability among brands in a product market).[View Profile]

Michael Hannan investigates change in the world of organizations. This work involves both formal theoretical treatments of organizational change and empirical studies of the emergence, change, and dissolution of categories and populations of organizations. His current theoretical research involves applications of dynamic logics to organizational theory and exploration of the emergence of organizational categories. His current empirical research investigates the dynamics of categories in the wine industry.[View Profile]

Jeffrey Moore has published research in the areas of budgeting and resource allocation in decentralized organizations, managing software development, and the use of computers by top management. His current research interests are the use of computing by senior executives and applications of modeling and data analysis in managerial decision making.[View Profile]

Margaret Neale’s research focuses primarily on negotiation and team performance. Her work has extended judgment and decision-making research from cognitive psychology to the field of negotiation. In particular, she studies cognitive and social processes that produce departures from effective negotiating behavior. Within the context of teams, her work explores aspects of team composition and group process that enhance the ability of teams to share the information necessary for learning and problem solving in both face-to-face and virtual team environments.[View Profile]

Jim Phills is director of the Center for Social Innovation (CSI). He directs a number of CSI’s executive programs and teaches MBA electives on nonprofit strategy and social entrepreneurship. His research focuses on the emerging area of social innovation. In particular, Phills explores the growing exchange of ideas, talent, capital, and values across sector boundaries and the shifting roles and relationships between business, government, and nonprofits in development of innovative solutions to social problems. He has also studied learning at the group, organizational, and societal levels of analysis.[View Profile]

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]

Robert Sutton focuses on evidence-based management, the links (and gaps) between managerial knowledge and organizational action, innovation, and organizational performance. His research style emphasizes the development of theory and recommendations for practice on the basis of direct observation of organizational life and interviews with executives, managers, engineers, and other organization members.[View Profile]