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
Emily Cox (graduated 2010)
Dissertation: The Impact of Funding Sources on Innovation in New Firms

Employment: Emily is currently an Assistant Professor of Management at the University of Washington Foster School of Business

Awards: NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant, Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship
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.
Sam Garg (graduated 2011)
Dissertation: Decoding the CEO-Board Relationship: Strategic Decision Making and Monitoring in Entrepreneurial Firms

Employment: Sam is currently an Assistant Professor in the Business School at The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
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)