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Download the GSB profiles and then look at the intersection of their research terms to get a basic idea of whether they are connected. The scraping is in the first half of the document, and the processing is in the second half.
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gsb_faculty.py
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.common.exceptions import NoSuchElementException
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
import time, csv
def isReady(browser):
return browser.execute_script("return document.readyState")=="complete"
browser = webdriver.Firefox() # Get local session of firefox
browser.get("http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/facultyprofiles") # Load page
while not isReady(browser):
time.sleep(1)
print browser.title
faculty = browser.find_elements_by_xpath('//span[@class="views-field views-field-field-person-last-name-1"]//a')
ranks = browser.find_elements_by_xpath('//span[@class="views-field views-field-field-official-rank"]')
allfaculty = [{'Label': f.text, 'Rank': r.text, 'Link': f.get_attribute('href')} for (f,r) in zip(faculty, ranks)]
updatedfaculty = []
for (i,d) in enumerate(allfaculty):
browser.get(d['Link']) # Load page
while not isReady(browser):
time.sleep(1)
try:
d["Blurb"] = browser.find_elements_by_xpath('//div[@id="profile-summary-callout"]')[0].text
except:
d["Blurb"] = ""
d["ID"] = i
allfaculty[i] = d
dw = csv.DictWriter(open('gsb_nodes.csv','w'),fieldnames=['ID','Label','Rank','Link','Blurb'])
dw.writeheader()
for d in allfaculty:
for k in d:
try:
d[k] = d[k].encode('UTF-8')
except:
k
dw.writerow(d)
from nltk.corpus import stopwords
import nltk, string
porter = nltk.PorterStemmer()
stopwords = nltk.corpus.stopwords.words('english')
stopwords.append('research')
stopwords.append('interest')
for i,d in enumerate(allfaculty):
b = d["Blurb"]
tokens = nltk.word_tokenize(b.translate(string.maketrans("",""), string.punctuation).lower())
s = set()
for t in set(tokens):
if t not in stopwords:
s.add(porter.stem(t.lower()))
allfaculty[i]["blurbset"] = s
dw = csv.DictWriter(open('gsb_edges.csv','w'),fieldnames=['Source','Target','Weight'])
dw.writeheader()
for i,b in enumerate(allfaculty):
for j,bb in enumerate(allfaculty[i+1:]):
intersection = (b["blurbset"].intersection(bb["blurbset"]))
if len(intersection)>0:
print i,j,len(intersection)
dw.writerow({'Source': b["ID"], 'Target': bb["ID"], 'Weight': len(intersection)})
print i
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gsb_nodes.csv
ID Label Rank Link Blurb
0 Aaker, Jennifer, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/jaaker A social psychologist and marketer, Jennifer Aaker is the General Atlantic Professor of Marketing at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.Her research spans time, money and happiness. She focuses on questions such as: What actually makes people happy, as opposed to what they think makes them happy? How can small acts create infectious action, and how can such effects be fueled by social media? She is widely published in the leading scholarly journals in psychology and marketing, and her work has been featured in a variety of media including The Economist, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, BusinessWeek, Forbes, CBS Money Watch, NPR, Science, Inc, and Cosmopolitan. Aaker teaches in many of Stanford’s Executive Education programs as well as MBA electives including Designing Happiness, How to Tell a Story, as well as Brands, Experience & Social Technology (BEST). Recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award, Citibank Best Teacher Award, George Robbins Best Teacher Award and both the Spence and Fletcher Jones Faculty Scholar Awards, she has also taught at UC Berkeley, UCLA and Columbia. Most recently she has co-authored the award winning book, The Dragonfly Effect: Quick Effective Powerful Ways to Harness Social Media for Impact
1 Abbey, Douglas, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/dabbey Doug Abbey is actively involved in commercial and residential real estate investment and development throughout the U.S. He is a leader in a number of nonprofit organizations related to affordable housing and land use issues. He works with GSB students to evaluate career opportunities in real estate and to expose them to research and educational opportunities in the field. While the focus of his course is real estate investment, students are introduced to broader issues of how land use decisions are created through a combination of market forces, demographics, and regulation, and how resulting land use patterns impact housing affordability and integration or isolation of households by income level.
2 Abrahams, Matt, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/mattabra Matt received his undergraduate degree in psychology from Stanford; his graduate degree in communication studies from UC Davis; and his secondary education teaching credential from SFSU. He is currently a member of the Management Communication Association (where he recently received a "Rising Star" award) as well as the National and Western States Communication Associations.
3 Admati, Anat, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/admati Anat Admati is the George G.C. Parker Professor of Finance and Economics at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. She has written extensively on information dissemination in financial markets, trading mechanisms, portfolio management, financial contracting, and, most recently, on corporate governance and banking. Since 2010, she has been active in the policy debate on financial regulation, particularly capital regulation, writing research and policy papers and commentary. She is a coauthor of the book, “The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It". http://bankersnewclothes.com/ Professor Admati received her BS from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and her MA, MPhil and PhD from Yale University. She is the recipient of a Sloan Research Fellowship, a Batterymarch Fellowship, and multiple research grants. She is a fellow of the Econometric Society, and has served as a board member of the American Finance Association and on multiple editorial boards. She also serves on the FDIC Systemic Resolution Advisory Committee.
4 Allen, Dick, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/dpallen I teach "Managing Growing Enterprises", a course offered to students who aspire to manage their own business. The class uses a case discussion format, and the “star” of each case is present to offer feedback and insights. My objective is to get students to think about business situations they will face. The issues are not strategic; they are, instead, the common day-to-day problems that occupy much of a manager’s time. We role-play with some frequency, using this technique to put students in the CEO's shoes. I enjoy contact with the students, and I encourage them to meet with me. This enables me to get to know students individually and allows them the opportunity to discuss issues of interest to them.
5 Arrillaga, Laura, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/lauraa Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen is the Founder, Chairman Emeritus and former Chairman (1998-2008) of SV2 (Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund) and the Founder and Chairman of Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society. Her past research includes both institutional and individual philanthropy, corporate and venture philanthropy, global social investing and cross-sector collaboration, giving circles and community foundations. She is currently focusing on the intersection of technology, innovation and philanthropy.
6 Athey, Susan, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/athey Susan Athey’s research is in the areas of industrial organization, microeconomic theory, and applied econometrics. Her current research focuses on the design of auction-based marketplaces and the economics of the internet, primarily on online advertising and the economics of the news media. She has also studied dynamic mechanisms and games with incomplete information, comparative statics under uncertainty, and econometric methods for analyzing auction models.
7 Aubry, Rick, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/raubry Rick Aubry has led one of America’s leading social enterprises, Rubicon Programs, for over 20 years. His work at the GSB focuses on social entrepreneurship to effect positive social change throughout the world. His class focuses on social entrepreneurs creating change in the most challenging communities internationally and the U.S. Social entrepreneurs as guest lecturers are the core classroom experience. Students work directly, in class and on projects, with the world's leading practitioners, learning from these amazing world changers, inspiring unexpected action and thinking amongst students who might never have imagined they could be a part of changing the world.
8 Bannick, Mathew, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/mbannick Mr. Matthew J. Bannick is a Managing Partner and Director at Omidyar Network. Mr. Bannick leads all aspects of Omidyar's operations and strategy and works closely with the co-founders and Board of Directors to ensure that Omidyar Network achieves its long-term mission and strategic objectives. He has been the President at eBay International of Ebay Inc. since December 2004. Mr. Bannick has a wide range of executive, international, and multi-sector experience to his leadership at Omidyar Network. He was a member of executive staff and served in a series of senior executive roles at eBay from 1999 to 2007. Among Mr. Bannick’s most significant accomplishments was leading eBay's early international expansion efforts. Mr. Bannick served as eBay Inc.'s General Manager of Global Online Payments. He also served as the Senior Vice President there from October 2002 until December 2004. From December 2000 to October 2002, Mr. Bannick served as eBay's Senior Vice President and the General Manager at eBay International. He also enhanced eBay's position in Europe through the acquisition of Paris-based iBazar and made additional acquisitions and investments in South Korea, China, Australia, and Latin America, laying the foundation for its international success. After eBay acquired PayPal in 2002, Mr. Bannick served as its first post-acquisition General Manager and President. He was also the Chief Executive Officer there. Under Mr. Bannick’s leadership, PayPal's revenue more than tripled in its first two years with eBay.
9 Barnett, William, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/fbarnett William Barnett studies competition among organizations and how organizations and industries evolve globally. He is conducting a large-scale project that seeks to explain why and how some firms grow rapidly in globalizing markets. His prior research includes studies of 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 concerning the environment. He is best known for his work on "Red Queen competition", where firms learn from competition and so become stronger competitors over time. Follow Professor Barnett on Twitter @BarnettTalks.
10 Baron, David, Professor Emeritus http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/dbaron David Baron has published in the fields of industrial organization, economic theory, political science, business strategy, operations research, statistics, and finance. He has authored over 100 articles and 3 books, one of which is in its 5th edition. His principal research interests have been the theory of the firm, the economics of regulation, mechanism design and its applications, political economics, and nonmarket strategy. His current research focuses on political economics and strategy in the business environment.
11 Barth, Mary, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/fbarth Professor Mary Barth’s research focuses on financial accounting and reporting issues, particularly topics of interest to accounting standard setters. Such topics include using fair values in financial reporting, stock-based compensation, recognition versus disclosure, asset securitizations, asset revaluations, the information roles of accruals and cash flows, the relation between financial statement quality and cost of capital, and issues related to global financial reporting and convergence.
12 Bayati, Mohsen, Assistant Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/bayati Mohsen Bayati has two main research interests: machine learning and statistical models for large data, and their applications in healthcare. In particular, he designs methods based on graphical models, probability theory, and statistical physics, and applies them in data-driven healthcare (predictive models, optimization, and decisions).
13 Beaver, William, Professor Emeritus http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/fbeaver
14 Beiker, Sven, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/beiker Dr. Sven Beiker believes in utilizing an interdisciplinary approach to learning and decision making. He is motivated to bring academia and industry together in a class environment and for research initiatives toward the future of individual mobility. Dr. Beiker is a Lecturer teaching S574,"Strategic Thinking in Action - In Business and Beyond", with Professor Robert A. Burgelman, Edmund W. Littlefield Professor of Management at the Graduate School of Business.
15 Bendor, Jonathan, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/fbendor Jonathan Bendor's research focuses on three areas: 1) theories of bounded rationality - how cognitive constraints affect decision making; 2) the evolution of cooperation and of norms of collective action; 3) the study of bureaucracy - institutional methods of easing cognitive constraints faced by individual decision makers.
16 Benkard, Lanier, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/lanierb Professor Benkard’s research is in the areas of industrial organization, applied microeconomics, and econometrics. His research involves applying microeconomic and game theoretic models to the study of individual markets. His recent work has focused on empirical applications of dynamic oligopoly, and he has recently studied the commercial aircraft and personal computer industries.
17 Berk, Jonathan, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/jbberk Jonathan Berk’s research is primarily theoretical in nature and covers a broad range of topics in finance including delegated money management; asset pricing (the relation between stock returns and characteristics of the firm, such as accounting numbers, investment, firm size, etc.); valuing the firm’s growth potential, the firm’s capital structure decision, and the interaction between labor markets and financial markets. He has also explored individual rationality in an experimental setting.
18 Bernstein, Shai, Assistant Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/shaib Shai Bernstein conducts research in corporate finance with particular emphasis in entrepreneurial finance. He is interested in understanding how economic outcomes are influenced by the financing decisions of firms. In recent work, he has studied the effects of initial public offerings on firms’ innovation, the effect of private equity investments on target industries in which they operate, and the investment behavior of sovereign wealth funds in private firms.
19 Bettinger, Eric, Associate Professor (by courtesy) http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/ebetting Dr. Bettinger's current research focuses on factors that improve students' access to and success in college. Some of these factors include the role of teacher characteristics and class sizes in college, the role of need-based financial aid, and the complexity of the college application process. Bettinger has also conducted significant research on the effects of financial incentives for students and on the effects of voucher programs on both academic and non-academic outcomes of participating students.
20 Beyer, Anne, Associate Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/abeyer Anne Beyer’s research interest is in the area of financial accounting with a focus on corporate disclosure, capital market prices, and corporate governance. Recent work has examined the properties of analyst and management earnings forecasts as well as investors’ reaction to different kinds of corporate disclosures.
21 Bimpikis, Kostas, Assistant Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/kostasb Professor Bimpikis' research agenda lies in the interface of operations, economics and information technology. Much of his current research is focused on studying the economics of complex social networks and identifying the implications for individuals and businesses. Moreover, he is interested in issues arising in the operations of Internet-based markets.
22 Binsbergen, Jules van, Associate Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/jvb2 Professor van Binsbergen conducts theoretical and empirical research in finance. His current work focuses on asset pricing, in particular the relationship between financial markets and the macro economy and the organization, skill and performance of financial intermediaries. Some of his recent research focuses on measuring the skill of mutual fund managers, the term structure of cash flow growth and stock return predictability and the implications of good-specific habit formation for asset prices. Professor van Binsbergen’s research has appeared in leading academic journals, such as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Finance and the Journal of Monetary Economics.
23 Blankespoor, Elizabeth, Assistant Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/blankbe Professor Elizabeth Blankespoor’s research broadly focuses on financial reporting and corporate disclosure. Within this area, her recent work examines the determinants of corporate disclosure and the role of information processing costs, the impact of changes in information technology on the flow of financial information, and the use of fair values in financial reporting.
24 Bloom, Nicholas, Professor (by courtesy) http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/nbloom Nick Bloom's research interests focus on measuring and explaining management practices across firms and countries. He has been collecting data from thousands of manufacturing firms, retailers, schools and hospitals across countries, to develop a quantitative basis for management research. Recently he has also been running management field experiments in India to identify clearly causal links between management and performance. A second area of research is on the causes and consequences of uncertainty, arising from events such as the credit crunch, the 9/11 terrorist attack and the Cuban Missile crisis. He also works on innovation and IT, examining factors that effect this such as tax, trade and regulation.
25 Bonini, Charles, Professor Emeritus http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/bonini Professor Bonini has studied the applications of quantitative and statistical techniques to business decision problems. These techniques include decision analysis, optimization models, queuing and processing systems, simulation, and data mining. He has authored and coauthored a number of text books explaining these techniques and illustrating their applications.
26 Bowen, Renee, Assistant Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/trbowen Renee Bowen’s research focuses on International Trade, Political Economy and Microeconomic Theory. In her work she applies dynamic game theoretic models to study the behavior of individuals who are constrained by institutions and who have long-term strategic considerations. Her recent papers examine optimal multilateral trade agreements.
27 Bowman, Kirk, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/kbek Kirk Bowman teaches S351, “Building and Managing Professional Sales Organizations”, with Jim Lattin, Robert A. Magowan Professor of Marketing at the Graduate School of Business. Kirk has held executive sales and general management roles in both public and private companies where he has built, scaled, and managed sales organizations. His operational experience includes channel, direct, OEM, and hybrid go-to-market strategies for companies with diverse technology offerings from software to hardware to services. He has run organizations while living in Silicon Valley, Tokyo, Zurich, London, and Boston. Kirk believes that sales strategy is mission critical to a business, but is often a black box to investors, CEOs, and entrepreneurs. He hopes to bring his experience to students while supporting the great work already being done by the Graduate School of Business in delivering a high quality sales strategy education.
28 Bradford, David, Senior Lecturer Emeritus http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/dlbrad Dr. Bradford's interests are in the areas of leadership, interpersonal influence, and executive teams. In all of these, he has focused on the question,"What does it take to achieve high performance?" The results have suggested that, especially in knowledge-based organizations, excellence is most likely when leaders build strong teams where the members' role is significantly expanded so that they share responsibility for the management of the unit (including making the core decisions jointly and holding each other accountable for performance). His recent work on influence has led to exploring the conditions for a "feedback rich organization" where team members, through a structured process, give each other face-to-face feedback to improve individual and team performance.
29 Brady, Scott, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/sbrady
30 Brady, David, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/dbrady Brady's research focuses on the American Congress, the party system, and public policy. He has studied the critical congressional realignments of 1860, 1896, and 1932, and has concluded that the rising number of safe seats and the waning importance of presidential coattails have made it much more difficult for a realigning election to take place in the United States. He also has written on Internet voting, the women's movement, regulation of the nuclear industry, apportionment, the Supreme Court handling of abortion, and Korean and Japanese politics. He presently heads a joint project between the Brookings Institution and the Hoover Institution on Polarization in American Politics.
31 Breon-Drish, Bradyn, Assistant Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/breon Professor Breon-Drish conducts primarily theoretical research on the effects of asymmetric information in financial markets. His current work focuses on the interaction between price informativeness and investor learning and its impact on asset prices. He has also studied the market timing ability of mutual fund managers and has work investigating the implications of firm competition for asset prices.
32 Bresnahan, Timothy, Professor (by courtesy) http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/tbres
33 Brest, Paul, Professor and Dean Emeritus http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/pbrest
34 Bristol, Scott, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/sbristol Scott Bristol is known internationally for authoring the Life Journey Map®, an online values measurement tool and an educational methodology for influencing meaningful change at the individual, group, and cultural level. His work as an educator at the Stanford Graduate School of Business focuses on the intersection of values, emotions, and "languaging" as they influence interpersonal effectiveness within small self-organizing groups. His corporate and educational work also focuses on teaching facilitators how to use these concepts to mobilize the potential of human diversity.
35 Bulow, Jeremy, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/jbulow Jeremy Bulow’s research spans economics and finance and includes topics such as industrial organization, international debt, pension funds, auctions, and tobacco. Bulow has taught microeconomics as well as courses on economic aspects of contracts, competition, and markets, and environmental management and policy analysis.
36 Burgelman, Robert, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/profrab 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.
37 Callander, Steven, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/sjc Steve Callander’s research interests are in theoretical political economy and other areas of applied theory. His recent focus has been on understanding and modeling complex decision problems. He is interested in how people experiment and learn when the underlying problem is difficult and learning must be by trial-and-error. He is exploring how problem difficulty impacts decision making and the design of institutions in policy making, the organization of firms, and a variety of other settings. At the GSB, Professor Callander teaches classes on Strategy Beyond Markets and Strategic Crisis Management in both the MBA program and a variety of Executive Education programs.
38 Carroll, Glenn, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/gcarroll Glenn Carroll's research interests include organizational theory, strategic management, and industrial evolution. He has pioneered ecological approaches to organizational analysis, as well as their application to strategy. Carroll helped develop the study of population dynamics among organizations, examining how the demographics of firms affect corporate change. His recent research investigates how organizational identities develop and impact society. Another program examines how the diversity of organizations in a community affects socio-political outcomes. Carroll has also studied the ways internal organizational demography shapes organizational cultures.
39 Casey, Katherine, Assistant Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/kecasey Katherine Casey’s research explores the interactions between economic and political forces in developing countries, including the impact of government reforms and external interventions on institutional strength and economic growth. She is particularly interested in the role of information in enhancing political accountability and the influence of foreign aid on economic development. Her work combines theory and empirical work, conducting randomized trials where appropriate.
40 Casscells, R., Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/annec
41 Catz, Safra, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/scatz Safra Catz is President of Oracle Corporation, where under her leadership, over 85 acquisitions have been completed within the last five years. She has extensive experience in the area of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) at both Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (an investment banking group since 1986) and Oracle Corporation. Ms. Catz is a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, teaching "Mergers and Acquisitions: Accounting, Regulatory, and Governance Issues". She brings to this course a wealth of industry knowledge and practical experience. The course covers the basics of mergers and acquisitions (M&A), as well as some of the important lessons learned from the numerous M&A deals that Ms. Catz has advised on throughout her career.
42 Chambers, Jeffrey, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/jchamber Jeff Chambers is a Lecturer teaching S353,"Entrepreneurship: Formation of New Ventures", with Jim Ellis and Michael Child. Mr. Chambers has spent over 30 years with TA Associates, a private equity firm, investing in rapidly growing companies in the business services, consumer, healthcare and technology industries. In his section of S353, he hopes to explore the many ways entrepreneurs form, finance, and build their companies, and to discuss and evaluate the pros, cons, and risks of various business models.
43 Chang, Patricia, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/pmychang
44 Chess, Robert, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/rchess Rob draws on his experience in starting and growing businesses across multiple science-based industries -- biotech, cleantech, and information technology -- in teaching courses in entrepreneurship and the management of innovation in the health care industry. His research interests are in the area of health care policy, global health, and science-based start-ups. Rob's teaching focus is on exposing students to the complex, real-world issues and trade-offs they will face in starting, growing, and operating companies in science and technology-based industries. He has been a lecturer at the GSB since 2004.
45 Child, Michael, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/mcchild Mike Child is a Lecturer teaching S353,"Entrepreneurship: Formation of New Ventures", with Jim Ellis and Jeffrey Chambers. Mr. Child has spent over 28 years with TA Associates, a private equity firm, investing in early stage, emerging technology companies, many of which were founded by entrepreneurs who initially bootstrapped their companies to profitability. In his section of S353, he hopes to explore the many ways entrepreneurs form, finance, and build their companies, and to discuss and evaluate the pros, cons, and risks of various business models.
46 Ciesinski, Steve, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/sjc21 Stephen Ciesinski is a Lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he teaches Evaluating Entrepreneurial Opportunities. Steve is a believer that innovation drives job creation, economic growth and societal good. His role and responsibilities at SRI International, and his experiences as an executive, investor, advisor, and board member of numerous early stage ventures in a variety of industries, provide him with a unique perspective on entrepreneurial practices in the U.S. and in countries outside the U.S. As a passionate advocate of team learning, he believes that his students will gain from valuable interactions with fellow students, mentors, consultants and other professionals as part of the coursework, while having a truly enjoyable experience.
47 Cohen, Geoffrey, Professor (by courtesy) http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/glc Professor Cohen's research examines processes related to identity maintenance and their implications for social problems. One primary aim of his research is the development of theory-driven, rigorously tested intervention strategies that further our understanding of the processes underpinning social problems and that offer solutions to alleviate them. Two key questions lie at the core of his research: “Given that a problem exists, what are its underlying processes?” And, “Once identified, how can these processes be overcome?” One reason for this interest in intervention is his belief that a useful way to understand psychological processes and social systems is to try to change them. He is also interested in how and when seemingly brief interventions, attuned to underlying psychological processes, produce large and long-lasting psychological and behavioral change.
48 Daines, Robert, Professor (by courtesy) http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/rdaines Robert Daines' research examines the relationship between law, finance and corporate governance. His recent work has focused on CEO pay, mandatory disclosure regulation, and takeover defenses in public firms.
49 De Simone, Lisa, Assistant Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/lnds Professor Lisa De Simone's research is in the area of multinational corporations and corporate taxation. Her recent research focuses on the tax effects of financial accounting changes, multinational income shifting, the valuation of tax avoidance, and tax compliance as a strategic game.
50 DeMarzo, Peter, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/pdemarzo Professor Peter DeMarzo’s research is in the area of corporate finance, asset securitization, and contracting, as well as market structure and regulation. Recent work has examined issues of the optimal design of securities, the regulation of insider trading and broker-dealers, and the influence of information asymmetries on corporate investment.
51 Dexter, Gary, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/gdexter
52 Di Tella, Sebastian, Assistant Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/sditella Sebastian Di Tella's research is in Macroeconomic Theory and Finance, focusing on the role of the financial system in amplifying and propagating aggregate shocks. In recent work he studies the concentration of aggregate risk on the balance sheets of financial institutions and the implications for financial regulation. He is also interested in optimal monetary policy and its interaction with the financial system.
53 Dodson, David, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/ddodson1 David Dodson teaches S355,"Managing Growing Enterprises", S543,"Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition", and OB 209 "Leadership Laboratory". Mr. Dodson is a graduate of Stanford University (Economics ’83, MBA ‘87), and a frequent guest for New Ventures and Managing Growing Enterprises courses, and a former case writer (1988).
54 Duffie, Darrell, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/duffie Darrell Duffie’s research interests include over-the-counter markets, banking, financial risk management, credit risk, valuation and hedging of derivative securities, term structure of interest rate modeling, financial innovation, and market design. Recently, Duffie has focused on how capital moves from one segment of asset markets to another, and the implications of imperfect trading opportunities for asset price behavior, especially in over-the-counter markets. Duffie and several collaborators have some recent results on portfolio credit risk, based on the assumption that there are unobservable common default-risk factors.
55 deHaan, Eduard, Assistant Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/edehaan Ed deHaan’s research interests broadly relate to financial reporting and corporate disclosure strategies. His recent work examines investor relations and managers’ strategic communication with capital market participants. His other research has focused on S.E.C. enforcement, executive compensation, and market intermediaries.
56 Ellis, Jim, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/jellis1 Jim Ellis’ research and writings are focused on the topics of new venture formation and the effective management of small to mid-sized enterprises. Over the last several years he has worked closely with his faculty colleagues to refine course material related to the process of evaluating entrepreneurial opportunities. Mr. Ellis also works extensively with a number of diverse businesses as founder, investor, board member, and advisor.
57 Enthoven, Alain, Professor Emeritus http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/enthoven Professor Alain Enthoven has published widely in the fields of the economics, organization, management and public policy of health care in the U.S.A. and U.K. In his research, he studies the causes of unsustainable growth in national health expenditures and the costs of health insurance, and possible strategies for moderating this growth while improving quality of care. His recent work is focused on the failings of employment-based health insurance and on proposals for market-based universal health insurance in the U.S.A.
58 Eyal, Nir, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/neyal Nir Eyal founded and sold two tech companies since 2003 and today is an advisor, consultant, and investor in several Bay Area companies and incubators. Nir's last company, AdNectar, received venture funding from Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers and was sold in 2011. He is also a contributing writer for TechCrunch and Forbes.
59 Feinberg, Yossi, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/yossi Yossi Feinberg’s research centers on the analysis of information in strategic decision making. He works on the modeling of costly decision making, reasoning about unawareness, dynamic interactive decisions, reasoning about high order uncertainties, and more. Some of his work includes a method for the novice to test a potential experts who claim to be informed of some uncertain future events, a study on how uncertainties about others’ uncertainties can lead to delay in bargaining and the modeling of strategic communication.
60 Ferguson, John-Paul, Assistant Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/jpferg John-Paul Ferguson's research focuses on the effects of hostile environments on founding new organizations, and the implications of those environments for how organizations' constituents come to value them. His research on labor law and trade-union formation, for example, shows how greater opposition to unions by companies has encouraged employees to favor diversified rather than specialized unions. His current project explores how the social norms that govern economic behavior can break down over time.
61 Finan, Frederico, Associate Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/ffinan Frederico Finan’s research interests lie at the intersection of political economy and development economics. His research has been primarily focused on issues of governance, including such topics as corruption and political selection. His recent work examines the determinants of bureaucratic performance, and how financial incentives can enhance the capabilities of the state.
62 Flanagan, Robert, Professor Emeritus http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/flanagan Professor Flanagan has written extensively on micro and macro issues in cultural economics, comparative labor economics, and human resource management. His recent research interests include the economics of performing arts organizations, and he has recently completed a study of the economic issues facing symphony orchestras (The Perilous Life of Symphony Orchestras: Artistic Triumphs and Economic Challenges (Yale University Press, 2012). His other research interests incluce the effects of globalization on labor conditions and human resource management issues.
63 Flink, Chris, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/cflink Chris Flink is a partner at IDEO, a Lecturer at the Graduate School of Business, and a Consulting Associate Professor at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school) which he helped establish at Stanford. He has served on the d.school's Strategy Board since inception and has taught courses within the engineering department such as “Advanced Product Design” and “Human Values in Design” since 1999. He has also guest lectured on the strategic application of design thinking at Wharton and Columbia Business School. In 2011, he co-taught the popular "Brands, Experience, & Social Technology (BEST)" course, followed by "Social Brands" in 2012 -- both with Professor Jennifer Aaker. Chris' teaching leverages nearly twenty years of experience helping companies of all kinds innovate and grow.
64 Flynn, Francis, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/fflynn Professor Flynn’s research focuses on interpersonal relations in organizations. In particular, he studies three topics of interest: (1) How employees can develop healthy patterns of cooperation; (2) How the negative impact of racial and gender stereotyping in the workplace can be mitigated; and (3) How people can emerge as leaders and assume positions of power in organizations. His work bridges the fields of management and social psychology, leading to scholarly as well as practical insights on organizational life.
65 Foster, George, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/gfoster 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 asset creation and destruction, global entrepreneurship, and 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.
66 Francis, Peter, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/pfranci2 Peter Francis teaches S512, “The Yin and Yang of Family Business Transitions,” a course that delves into the dynamics inherent in all family-owned enterprises. He has been involved in family businesses for his entire life on both sides of his family. He personally completed a leveraged buyout of a family-owned business after graduating from the Stanford GSB in 1987. For over 20 years, Peter has been a frequent speaker to family business audiences and a guest-lecturer at Stanford and Wharton. With the perspective of having run a 130 year old, family business that is currently welcoming its sixth generation into the world, Peter has a passion for the benefits and challenges found in this ubiquitous structure.
67 Francisco, Richard, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/richardf As consultant, psychologist, and educator, for nearly three decades, my teaching in leadership and interpersonal communication has touched and influenced an internationally diverse group of leaders and managers. At the GSB I am honored to be an instructor of OB 374, which enables me to participate in training future world leaders. OB 374, affectionately called “Touchy-Feely” by the GSB community, is about teaching students methods for improving their “human skills,” which research on leadership indicates is a necessity for effective leadership. I hold a firm belief that we learn best by doing and in OB 374 students DO, by engaging in their own learning.
68 Fuloria, Prashant, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/fuloria Prashant is currently Director of Product Management at Facebook, responsible for Facebook’s commerce products, including Facebook Credits. Prior to joining Facebook, Prashant was PM Director at Google, where he most recently managed all of Google's products for the Asia-Pacific region. Prashant also worked for several years building monetization products at Google, both as an early PM on AdWords and as the PM Director for global billing & payments.
69 Gardete, Pedro, Assistant Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/gardete Professor Gardete specializes in marketing strategies in contexts of high uncertainty. In his current work he studies the DRAM manufacturing industry and analyzes the use and value of market research information to aid in decision-making on significant industry investments. His research also spans the areas of truth-in-advertising, where he investigates favorable market conditions for advertising credibility to take place. A third stream of his research addresses the realm of online consumer ratings, and estimates their impact on other consumers’ opinions.
70 Gerardo Lietz, Nori, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/nori56 Nori Gerardo Lietz has been a Real Estate Practitioner advising and managing institutional investor capital since she founded Pension Consulting Alliance, Inc. (“PCA”) in 1988. She developed its real estate advisory and investment management activities. In that capacity she represented many of the world’s largest institutional real estate investors. Lietz sold PCA to Partners Group, a Swiss based private markets asset manager, in 2007. Until June 2011 she served as the Chief Strategist for private real estate and Chairman of the Private Real Estate Investment Committee of the firm. She then founded Areté Capital, a real estate advisory firm. Lietz began her career as an attorney specializing in SEC and ERISA matters on behalf of pension funds, real estate managers and real estate pension consultants.
71 Glynn, John, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/jglynn John Glynn’s research interest is studying organizations and cultures in early stage technology businesses. This interest is based on his experience as a venture capitalist for 37 years investing in those types of companies. Creating an environment where employees have an identity with the values of the business, a passion about their jobs and responsibilities, and a long-term focus on building a real company requires a culture that is well thought out and developed in a small firm. As companies grow, their cultures evolve, and maintaining an entrepreneurial spirit and opportunity has been a major part of the success of many companies.
72 Goldberg, Amir, Assistant Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/amirgo Amir Goldberg’s research lies at the intersection of organization studies, cultural sociology and network science. He is interested in understanding how social meanings emerge and solidify through social interaction, and what role network structures play in this process. He uses and develops computationally intensive network-based methods to study how new cultural and organizational categories take form as people and organizational actors interact. His current work demonstrates that similar, fundamental social dynamics shape how people consume music and invest in the stock market.
73 Greer, Lindred, Assistant Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/lgreer Lindred Greer’s research focuses on teams and small groups. In her primary line of research, she examines how team power structures and power dynamics impact the performance of organizational teams. In particular she extends theory and research from social psychology on power to the study of teams and organizational behavior. Her work has shown that power differences within and between teams are key determinants of team effectiveness.
74 Grenadier, Steven, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/sgren Steven Grenadier’s research focuses on applying option pricing theory to real investment analysis. Topics have included the impact of competition and private information on option exercise decisions, the underpinnings of real estate cycles, the analysis of lease contracts, and the modeling of investment decisions of those with time-inconsistent preferences.
75 Grousbeck, H., Consulting Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/grous Irv Grousbeck is one of the directors of the Business School’s Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and coauthor of the textbook New Business Ventures and the Entrepreneur. His teaching centers on an objective means to develop a greater understanding of the issues faced by entrepreneurial companies and individuals. His course, Managing Growing Enterprises, places students in the role of CEO and challenges them to deal with difficult managerial situations by assessment, prescription, and execution, including frequent role-plays. Mr. Grousbeck also teaches a course at the Stanford Medical School, Managing Difficult Conversations, for GSB and medical students who aspire to improve their ability to deal effectively with difficult interpersonal situations.
76 Grove, Andrew, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/agrove Andrew S. Grove is Senior Advisor, Intel Corporation. He brings a wealth of experience to the classroom where he co-teaches the Bass seminar entitled “Strategy and Action in Information Technology” with Robert A. Burgelman. Dr. Grove is very involved in case writing for that seminar.
77 Gruenfeld, Deborah, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/deborahg Deborah H Gruenfeld is a social psychologist whose research and teaching examine how people are transformed by the organizations and social structures in which they work. The author of numerous articles on the psychology of power, and on group behavior, Professor Gruenfeld has taught popular courses on these and related topics to MBA students and executives at Stanford and at Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
78 Grundfest, Joseph, Professor (by courtesy) http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/joelaw
79 Guttentag, Bill, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/bgutten Bill Guttentag has been teaching at the Stanford Graduate School of Business since 2001. He teaches a class on the film and television business to second-year MBA Students.
80 Halevy, Nir, Assistant Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/nhalevy Professor Halevy’s research focuses on conflict and cooperation within and between groups. He studies, for example, how individuals' motivated perceptions of conflict shape their decision making in strategic interactions, and how different organizational conditions, such as hierarchy and leadership, shape patterns of conflict and cooperation within and between groups.
81 Hannan, Michael, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/hannan 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 and modal logics to organization theory, exploration of the emergence of organizational categories, and typecasting processes. His current empirical research investigates the dynamics of categories in the wine and restaurant industries.
82 Harrison, J, Professor Emeritus http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/mikehar Michael Harrison has developed and analyzed stochastic models in several different domains related to business, including mathematical finance and processing network theory. His current research is focused on dynamic models of resource sharing, and on the application of stochastic control theory in economics and operations.
83 Hartmann, Wesley, Associate Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/wesleyr Professor Hartmann's research applies and develops econometric techniques to analyze questions relevant to marketing and economics. One stream of his research focuses on decision-making over time. He has studied intertemporal substitution of demand in capacity constrained industries, the extent of switching costs in frequency reward programs, and price discrimination. Another stream of his research considers the effects of social ties on the decisions of firms and consumers. This research finds a link between social networks and outsourcing and also explores demand complementarities within groups of customers. His current work focuses on television advertising, internet advertising and the interplay between the two.
84 Hasan, Sharique, Assistant Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/sharique Sharique Hasan’s research attempts to shed light on both the causes and consequences of informal social networks within and outside organizations. In particular, he is interested in understanding (a) how informal social networks initially form, (b) how they change and evolve, (c) why certain categories of individuals occupy beneficial positions within networks while others do not, and (d) the processes by which social network structure affects both individual careers and the organizations in which careers develop.
85 Hausman, Warren, Professor (by courtesy) http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/hausmanw Warren Hausman has analyzed how RFID technology can revolutionize the management of supply chains. He has investigated the value of RFID applications in retail environments, in logistics, and in manufacturing and assembly operations. He is also studying how operational improvements on the supply side in retail supply chains affect a company’s financial performance and market capitalization. He has made significant research contributions in the management of inventory systems, multi-echelon inventory systems, automatic warehousing systems, and fashion products.
86 Heath, Chip, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/cheath 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?
87 Hennessey, Keith, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/kbh2 Keith Hennessey is a Lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he teaches Economics in Government. Mr. Hennessey is an economic policy practitioner with 15 years experience advising elected officials. A forceful advocate for free enterprise, free markets, free trade, and limited government, he has operated at the intersection of economic theory and the messy realities of practical policymaking. He teaches how a bill really becomes a law, and how theory translates into policies that affect the shape and structure of the American economy.
88 Holloway, Charles, Professor Emeritus http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/chollowa Professor Holloway’s research interests span two areas. The first focuses on the creation of competitive advantage in supply networks. These networks are characterized by the extensive outsourcing, domestically and internationally, that increasingly forms the economic model for global firms. They include networks in both factor markets and product markets where positioning of firms and products is key to competitive offerings. The work involves analyzing strategic as well as managerial options. The second interest involves the problems of small, rapidly growing, entrepreneurial companies that face a different set of challenges than established firms.
89 Hoshi, Takeo, Professor (by courtesy) http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/tkohoshi Takeo Hoshi's main research interests include the study of the financial aspects of the Japanese economy, especially corporate finance, banking, and monetary policy. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and at the Tokyo Center for Economic Research (TCER).
90 Howard, Ronald, Professor (by courtesy) http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/rhoward
91 Howell, James, Professor Emeritus http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/jhowell
92 Huang, Szu-Chi, Assistant Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/huangsc Professor Huang’s research focuses on consumer motivation. Her work in this area has been programmatic, documenting how consumers have different concerns in different stages of goal pursuit, and thus derive motivation in very distinct ways. Professor Huang uses experiments to tightly examine causal processes, and field studies to test these findings in the real world, such as launching loyalty programs with local restaurants and conducting charity campaigns with nonprofit organizations. Her new projects examine consumer motivation in social settings, such as joint goal-pursuit groups (e.g., Weight Watchers) and pro-social behaviors (e.g., motivation behind donations).
93 Huckabay, Mary Ann, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/huckabay Mary Ann Huckabay’s teaching focuses on micro-organizational behavior: the dynamics of small groups and interpersonal effectiveness. In her teaching, she espouses the integration of the personal and the organizational domains of human behavior since it is the separation of these two spheres that has been so profoundly costly to the effectiveness of the organizational systems we all inhabit. This emphasis on integrating the organizational and the personal runs through the Interpersonal Dynamics course, as well as the Group Facilitation Training Program and the Women in Management Student Group Program, for which Mary Ann is faculty director.
94 Hurley, John, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/jhurley John Hurley focuses his energy at the GSB on course and case development in investment management. In addition to supporting Professor Jack McDonald’s investment courses, Mr. Hurley has worked extensively with students and GSB graduates contemplating investment careers and new fund formation.
95 Iancu, Dan, Assistant Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/daniancu Professor Iancu's research is focused on problems at the interface of finance and operations that typically involve taking actions in rapidly changing environments, under high degrees of risk and uncertainty. His work deals with both the development of innovative algorithms and analytical support tools, as well as with understanding how these interact with business decision making. Specific applications include multiaccount portfolio optimization, strategic and tactical supply chain management, and dynamic pricing.
96 Imbens, Guido, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/imbens Guido Imbens does research in econometrics and statistics. His research focuses on developing methods for drawing causal inferences in observational studies, using matching, instrumental variables, and regression discontinuity designs.
97 Ishii, Joy, Assistant Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/joyishii Joy Ishii’s research focuses on empirical corporate finance and banking. Recent work has examined the valuation effects of insider stock ownership, the relationship between firm-level corporate governance structures and corporate performance, the role of social networks in corporate finance, and the role of network effects in ATMs in the retail banking industry.
98 Jaedicke, Robert, Professor and Dean Emeritus http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/jaedicke Robert K. Jaedicke's research and teaching were in the fields of financial and management accounting with special emphasis on the application of management economics concepts to those fields. As a teacher, Jaedicke was rated highly on the basis of student evaluations of his courses. He was best known for his ability to teach difficult subject matter in a clear and understandable manner. His skill in teaching earned him the 1985 Distinguished Professor Award for outstanding service to accounting education by the California Certified Public Accountants Foundation for Education and Research. He also won awards in 1961 and 1962 for outstanding research from the National Association of Accountants.
99 Jenter, Dirk, Associate Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/djenter Professor Jenter's work focuses on the interaction of managers and firms with (possibly inefficient) capital markets. Recent research projects have examined the capital structure decisions of U.S. firms, option and stock compensation for top executives and other employees, insider trading by managers, the role of institutional investors in mergers and acquisitions, and the effects of the business cycle on forced CEO turnover.
100 Jha, Saumitra, Assistant Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/saumitra Saumitra Jha's research focuses on drawing new lessons from economic theory and history for fostering beneficial political reform and economic growth in developing societies. He is particularly interested in the role that can be played by organizational innovations in mitigating political risk, encouraging political reform and supporting peaceful co-existence between members of different ethnic, religious and social groups. His current work focuses on understanding the potential and limitations of four particular types of such organizational innovation in mitigating conflict and creating broad coalitions. These include (a) the role of financial innovations and markets, (b) the role of organizations developed to enhance historical inter-ethnic trade, (c) the potential of non-violent civil disobedience and (d) the effects of organizational skills acquired through war in fostering political reform. Saumitra has a particular interest in understanding the challenges and lessons of the South Asian experience.
101 Johnson, Franklin, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/fpj1 Franklin "Pitch" Johnson, Jr was a pioneer in Silicon Valley venture capital and has been active in that field since 1962. He developed and taught a course in entrepreneurship and venture capital at Stanford for 12 years from 1979-1990. It was the first venture capital course taught in a graduate school of business. Since that time he has been an advisor to students creating entreprenurial plans as Business 390 projects. He continues to work as a venture capitalist in his 41-year-old firm, Asset Management Company of Palo Alto. His most recent publication was a paper called "Entrepreneurship and Democracy" in the Hoover Digest, 2005, No. 1.
102 Jones, Chad, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/chadj Charles I. Jones is an economist noted for his research on long-run economic growth. In particular, he has examined theoretically and empirically the fundamental sources of growth in incomes over time and the reasons underlying the enormous differences in standards of living across countries. In recent years, he has used his expertise in macroeconomic methods to study the economic causes behind the rise in health spending and longevity.
103 Joss, Robert, Professor and Dean Emeritus http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/rjoss Robert Joss has been a long-time student and practitioner of general management and organizational leadership. His interests and work lead him to explore such issues as (a) what makes managers and leaders effective, (b) how can people be developed to be good managers and leaders, and (c) what causes people to succeed or fail in these important roles.
104 Kasznik, Ron, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/fkasznik Ron Kasznik’s research focuses on examining the strategic use of accounting and financial information by market participants, particularly firm managers. Within this broad area, he focuses primarily on issues related to the provision of financial and non-financial information, the determinants and outcomes of voluntary disclosures, incentives to manage reported earnings, and the disclosure and reporting effects of employee stock options.
105 Kelly, Peter, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/pbkelly Peter Kelly teaches S543, “Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition,” with David Dodson. This course, taught for the first time in 2009-2010, draws on other courses taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business about forming and managing new enterprises. Peter is teaching at Stanford University for the second time and has been a regular guest in “Formation of New Ventures” (S353), “Managing Growing Enterprises” (S355), and “Building & Maintaining Professional Sales Organizations” (S551). His teaching approach is intended to be practical, demanding yet enjoyable, and grounded in rigorous thought. Peter draws from his experience for 15 years as CEO of a healthcare services company that grew from 170 to 1,400 employees and from the 20 acquisitions completed by his teams.
106 Kelman, Mark, Professor (by courtesy) http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/mkelman Professor Mark G. Kelman's most recent research has focused on the implications of the debate over the nature of heuristic reasoning for a variety of legal theoretic and policy issues (including methods of rediuing crime, debates over whether values are incommensurable, debates over whether there are significant, universal "moral" beliefs.
107 Kessler, Daniel, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/fkessler Professor Kessler's research interests include empirical studies in antitrust law, law and economics, and the economics of health care. His recent work focuses on the consequences of hospital mergers and hospital ownership (nonprofit versus for-profit) for the cost and quality of medical care. His new book, Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Five Steps to a Better Health Care System (with John Cogan and R. Glenn Hubbard), outlines how market-based health care reform in the U.S. can help fix our system's current problems. Currently, he is investigating how to use medical claims data to identify the types of health care providers that are likely to commit Medicare fraud and abuse.
108 Khan, Uzma, Associate Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/uzmakhan Professor Khan's research interests fall in the area of behavioral judgment and decision-making. She uses psychological and economic principles to explain how consumers form preferences in order to understand and predict their behavior and to recommend successful managerial strategies. Her primary focus is on sequential and inter-temporal decision-making. For instance, her recent research investigates how a current choice is influenced by prior unrelated decisions or by similar future choices. In another stream of research she examines the deliberative and implicit processes of self-regulation in sequential decision settings and in multi-goal environments.
109 Klein, Stuart, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/kleins Stuart L. Klein has been actively involved since 1993 with the Investment Management course and case development at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. He has co-authored (with Professor Jack McDonald) several cases and teaching notes on Valuation, Entrepreneurial Finance, and Private Equity. Stuart presently is researching re-sales of restricted stock in private companies and re-sales of venture capital limited partnership interests. He is passionate about investing, teaching, and working with students.
110 Korteweg, Arthur, Associate Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/korteweg Arthur's research is in the areas of corporate capital structure and private equity, as well as alternative assets more generally. In his capital structure work, Arthur uses insights from dynamic models to quantify the size and relative importance of economic frictions in explaining firms’ capital structure decisions. In recent work he has estimated the magnitude of the benefits and costs of leverage for publicly traded corporations, their target capital structures, and the thresholds at which firms decide to refinance. He is currently working on methods for comparing and testing dynamic models of the firm. Arthur’s research in private equity focuses on the endogenous trading of illiquid assets. In particular, he has estimated the risk and return trade-off to investments in Venture Capital funds and entrepreneurial firms, the evolution of loan-to-value distributions and home price indices of residential real estate during the recent subprime crisis, and investors’ optimal portfolio allocations to art. Current work is on quantifying the degree of persistence in Venture Capital and Leveraged Buyout funds. In other work, Arthur has considered pricing and investment decisions when investors do not know the true parameters and models but instead have to learn about them over time. For example, he has shown that parameter and model uncertainty matter for corporate bond prices, as well as for investor portfolio decisions when investors learn about stock return predictability over time. A common feature to Arthur's work is the development of novel econometric methods that have broad applicability in finance and economics, and to apply these methods to important problems in financial economics. Arthur teaches corporate finance and entrepreneurial finance in the MBA program.
111 Koudijs, Peter, Assistant Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/koudijs Peter Koudijs specializes in the history of financial markets. In his research Peter studies relevant historical cases which yield important lessons for the world of today. In recent work he has used a unique natural experiment from the 18th century to study the role of news in financial markets and the impact of insider trading. In other work he looks at the impact of fire sales on asset prices, the functioning of repo markets, and the foundations of sovereign debt markets and international borrowing.
112 Kramer, Roderick, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/rmkramer Roderick M. Kramer is the William R. Kimball Professor of Organizational Behavior. He received his Bachelor's of Arts in Experimental Psychology and Philosophy from California State University Los Angeles, as well as a Master’s Degree in Experimental Social Psychology from the same institution. In 1985, he received his PhD in Social Psychology from the University of California Los Angeles, also completing minors in cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence. He has been a visiting professor at Oxford University, London Business School, Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. Additionally, Kramer has been a Visiting Scholar at the Hoover Institution, Bellagio Institute, Harvard's Center for Public Leadership, and Harvard Business School. He has been on the Stanford faculty since 1985. Kramer’s research focuses on a variety of topics, including the psychology of trust and distrust, cooperation and conflict, creativity, individual decision making, the psychology of leadership, impression management, social identity theory, group processes, collective decision making, organizational paranoia, social capital and the nature of the self. His recent research has examined, among other things, the cognitive determinants of judgments of creativity in Hollywood “pitch” meetings, where screenwriters present their ideas to agents, producers and studio executives. Other recent studies examine why cooperative information sharing and coordination failed among U. S. intelligence agencies prior to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and how trust develops between physicians and their patients.
113 Krehbiel, Keith, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/krehbiel 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.
114 Kreps, David, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/kreps 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.
115 Lambert, Nicolas, Assistant Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/nlambert Nicolas Lambert's research is in microeconomic theory, and spans the areas of information economics, contract theory, market design, and decision making under uncertainty. In recent papers, he investigates how to elicit information on uncertainty from experts, examines the type of information that can be procured in contingent claims markets, and studies the properties of auctions used in social lending.
116 Lang, Mary, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/mlang Mary Lang empowers people to use communication to transform the world. She specializes in communication that moves people and helps leaders learn to communicate their best innovative ideas and deepest genuine selves. Lang serves as a lecturer in Organizational Behavior and as a senior advisor and mentor to the Mastery in Communication Initiative at Stanford's Graduate School of Business (GSB). Lang brings fresh ideas to the classroom, with original models and practical applications for personal clarity and power, expression of the genuine self, organizational change and renewal, and strategic communication. She also brings twenty years of business experience in corporate leadership, entrepreneurship, and management consulting.
117 Larcker, David, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/dlarcker Professor 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. He has current research projects on the valuation implications of corporate governance, role of the business press in the debate on executive compensation, and modeling the cost of executive stock options.
118 Lattin, James, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/jlattin 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.
119 Laurin, Kristin, Assistant Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/klaurin Kristin Laurin’s research investigates how people’s goals and motivations interact with their beliefs and ideologies – about politics, about religion, or about the nature of the world. She is especially interested in how beliefs about societal, organizational and interpersonal structures can affect people’s ability to self-regulate in pursuit of their important goals. She also studies how various motivations can shape people’s beliefs and ideologies.
120 Lazear, Edward, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/lazear Edward Lazear is a labor economist who is a founder of a field known as personnel economics. His research centers on employee incentives, promotions, compensation, and productivity in firms. He also has devoted study to culture and language, with an emphasis on explaining the rise in multiculturalism in the United States. Recent work includes an already widely known theory of educational production. His current research is on entrepreneurship, leadership, and its relation to personnel economics.
121 Lee, Hau, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/haulee Hau Lee’s research focuses on supply chain management, work that addresses how to get products or services to their destination by managing the flow of materials, information, and money. His research has resulted, among other things, in the building of computer models for industrial implementation, as well as in the development of strategies and operational concepts for practitioners.
122 Lee, Charles, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/clee8 Fundamental analysis, equity valuation, behavioral finance, and market microstructure. Broadly speaking, I am interested in the effect of human cognitive constraints on markets, as well as factors that affect the efficiency with which prices incorporate information.
123 Leslie, Mark, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/mleslie1 Mark Leslie is a successful retired entrepreneur and continues to be active in the Silicon Valley community. In his relationship with the GSB he focuses on course and case development in the areas of entrepreneurship, and he co-developed and teaches the school’s seminal course on sales organizations. His courses cover many topics related to the growth of Silicon Valley companies, as well as companies around the United States and abroad. He is an energetic and devoted teacher, and states that his aspiration is “… to impact all and to inspire a few."
124 Levav, Jonathan, Associate Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/jlevav Jonathan Levav studies consumer behavior and behavioral decision theory. He combines laboratory and field experiments, as well as secondary data analysis, in order to study the factors that influence people's choices and judgments. His research on choice focuses on three inter-related areas: 1) understanding the role of product attributes in people’s use of contextual cues; 2) the influence of environmental—social and physical—contextual cues on choices; 3) the contextual variables introduced by previous choices in sequential decisions. His research on judgment focuses on two areas: 1) preference prediction; 2) likelihood judgment.
125 Levin, Jonathan, Professor (by courtesy) http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/jdlevin Jonathan Levin is an applied economist whose research is in the field of industrial organization. He is best known for his work on contracting relationships and on the design of market rules and institutions. In the last few years, he has studied subprime lending, health insurance, the allocation of radio spectrum, and the economics of internet markets.
126 Levine, Peter, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/pjlevine Peter J. Levine has over twenty years experience in the software industry as an executive and a venture capitalist, playing key roles in engineering, sales, marketing and management at companies of all sizes. Mr. Levine is a Lecturer teaching S351,"Building and Managing Professional Sales Organizations", with James M. Lattin, Robert A. Magowan Professor of Marketing at the Graduate School of Business.
127 Linbeck, Leo, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/llinbeck I am a business practitioner with a passion for teaching. I have tremendous respect for the academic enterprise, and the researcher-teachers who form its core. I try to take the general frameworks they develop and give them practical application, and then teach others to do the same. My belief is that the problems of business are the problems of life (thanks to Jim March). The classroom is a special environment where those problems can be explored, simulated, probed, understood, and then used as a basis for real actions in real situations. I believe it is my calling in life to help others to become better business leaders by broadening their mind, both in business and in the classroom.
128 Lockwood, David, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/k00l David Lockwood teaches courses in corporate governance and investments, using real-world situations and first-hand knowledge to give his students an inside take on managerial economics. He draws upon his experience as the CEO of two publicly-traded technology company turnarounds to highlight the ramifications of both good and bad corporate governance practices. His tenure as the portfolio manager of an activist hedge fund provides perspective on the interaction among governance policies, investment strategies and financial markets.
129 Lowery, Brian, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/blowery Professor Lowery's research seeks to extend knowledge of individuals' experience of inequality and fairness. His work suggests that individuals distinguish between inequalities framed as advantage as opposed to disadvantage. This finding affects how individuals perceive inequality and the steps they take, if any, to reduce it. Thus, his work sheds light on intergroup conflict and the nature of social justice.
130 Mak, Kevin, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/kevinmak Kevin Mak is the Director of the Real-time Analysis and Investment Lab (RAIL) at the Graduate School of Business. The RAIL facility has been built to integrate experiential learning components into GSB classes and motivate students to learn by actively making decisions and analyzing outcomes. The lab is equipped with industry standard financial data applications used by practitioners on a day to day basis. In addition, it is host to a suite of trading and portfolio management simulations that allow students to ‘paper trade’ scenarios with real market data. Kevin teaches GSB students about decision making given uncertainty and how to identify and quantify various types of risks. In addition, Kevin guest-lectures in other related courses that utilize the RAIL facility.
131 Malhotra, Neil, Associate Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/neilm Professor Malhotra’s research interests include political behavior, legislative politics, and methodology. Among other topics, he has written on: (1) how citizens evaluate government performance; (2) attitude formation in complex information environments; (3) the relationship between legislative institutions and public finance; and (4) optimal methods for designing and analyzing surveys. He is currently writing a book on retrospective voting and government accountability.
132 March, James, Professor Emeritus http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/march James March studies organizations. His recent research has focused on understanding risk taking, decision making, learning, and leadership in organizations such as business firms, public bureaucracies, and educational institutions.
133 Marinovic, Ivan, Assistant Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/imvial Professor Iván Marinovic's research is in the area of applications of economics and information in accounting and finance. In particular, his recent research focuses on issues of disclosure, earnings management and optimal standards.
134 Marks, Michael, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/mmarks1 Michael co-teaches “Strategy in Global Supply Networks." His focus is on pushing students to think about business globally, not only from a logistics perspective but also in terms of cultural and collaborative frameworks. Course materials outline conflicting choices that are not easily resolved and require thinking about what most drives business success. Students are often required to “vote” before learning the outcomes.
135 Martin, Joanne, Professor Emerita http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/jmartin Joanne Martin is best known for her research on organizational culture. More recently her work has shifted to the study of gender in organizations. Recent projects focus on large-scale, cross-institutional efforts to improve gender equity, here and abroad; the process by which gender is socially constructed in organizational settings; and the subtle and often unintended ways organizational cultures place women at a disadvantage.
136 Martin, Ian, Associate Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/iwrm Ian Martin conducts research on financial markets and the macroeconomy. In recent papers, he has investigated theoretical models of asset price comovement; the implications of disasters for financial markets; asset returns in the long run; the behavior of small assets; long interest rates; and the equilibrium impact of borrowing constraints.
137 McDonald, Jack, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/jmcdonal John G. (Jack) McDonald is known internationally for his work on investment in the context of global equity markets. With more than 30 articles published in academic and professional journals on investment management, financial management, and the securities markets, McDonald currently focuses his energy on course and case development in these areas, as well as in entrepreneurial finance, private equity investing and hedge funds. His private equity, venture capital, and principal investing courses cover many topics related to the growth of Silicon Valley companies, as well as companies around the United States and in emerging markets abroad.
138 McFarland, Daniel, Associate Professor (by courtesy) http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/dmcfarla Daniel McFarland’s research focuses on the dynamic and interpretive qualities of social relationships and their effects on important organizational outcomes. McFarland is currently conducting three strands of research. The first concerns academia and how the arrangement of faculty social networks and the arrangement of scholarly ideas influence one another. The second concerns adolescent worlds and how membership affiliations, friendships, and interaction patterns greatly affect the quality of classroom experiences and learning outcomes. A third strand of work samples conversations in interpersonal notes and recordings of speed dating events to identify written and voiced means by which actors intentionally shape their relationships.
139 McLennan, Scotty, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/mclennan Scotty McLennan's research has been at the interface of religion,ethics, and the professions. He coauthored, with Laura Nash, Church on Sunday, Work on Monday: The Challenge of Fusing Christian Values with Business Life (Jossey-Bass, 2001). He teaches a second-year elective course entitled "The Business World: Moral and Spiritual Inquiry Through Literature." He is currently collecting interviews of individuals who have found novels, plays, and short stories with business characters helpful in examining moral and spiritual issues in their own business careers.
140 McNichols, Maureen, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/fmcnich Maureen McNichols’ research examines financial reporting and its role in providing information to investors. Her recent work focuses on earnings quality, on earnings management and on securities analysts. The research on earnings quality examines the informativeness of earnings and its components under alternative accounting principles. The research on earnings management examines companies’ incentives and methods for managing earnings, detection of managed earnings and the consequences for investors. The research on analysts examines their incentives to report information truthfully, how investment banking influences analysts’ behavior, and the implications for investors.
141 McQuade, Timothy, Assistant Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/tmcquade Professor McQuade conducts research at the intersection of asset pricing and corporate finance. His current work examines how the strategic responses of firms to time-varying uncertainty impact asset prices. He also has studied the role of foreclosures in exacerbating housing downturns and optimal housing policy.
142 Meehan, Bill, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/wmeehan William F. Meehan III is the Raccoon Partners Lecturer at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a Director Emeritus of McKinsey & Company.
143 Mendelson, Haim, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/haim Professor 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 business, the information industries, electronic markets, organizational IQ, and market microstructure. He has introduced the "Organizational IQ" concept which quantifies an organization’s ability to use information to make quick and effective decisions. He has been elected Distinguished Fellow of the Information Systems Society in recognition of outstanding intellectual contributions to the Information Systems discipline. His papers have been published in leading journals in the areas of information systems, finance, management science, economics, and statistics.
144 Meyerson, Debra, Associate Professor (by courtesy) http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/debram Debra Meyerson conducts research in five areas: a) gender and race relations in organizations, specifically individual and organizational tactics of change aimed at removing inequities and fostering productive inter-group relations; b) the role of philanthropic organizations and other intermediaries in fostering and diffusing change within institutions; c) leadership of innovation and change in educational institutions; d) the scaling of social innovations and the role of funding institutions in enabling and promoting “scale”; and e) the construction (and destruction) of work-life boundaries through the uses and interpretations of communication technologies.
145 Milgrom, Paul, Professor (by courtesy) http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/milgrom Paul Milgrom's primary research is directed to designing auctions for multiple unique but related items. Along with Robert Wilson, he introduced the initial design for sales of radio spectrum licenses in the United States. He has designed new auctions for Internet advertising and for procuring complex services. Research on incentives and complexity are combined to create auctions that are simple and straightforward for bidders, yet which dramatically improve resource allocation compared to traditional auction designs.
146 Miller, Dale, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/dtmiller Professor Dale Miller is Director of the Stanford Graduate School of Business' Center for Social Innovation. His research interests include the impact of social norms on behavior, the role that justice considerations play in individual and organizational decisions, and the conditions under which individuals and organizations abandon one course of action to pursue another.
147 Miller, William, Professor Emeritus http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/wmiller Professor William F. Miller has carried out research on atomic and nuclear physics, computer graphic systems and languages, computer systems architecture, and the computer industry. His current research interests are on industrial development with special interest in local and regional industrial development, the evolution of regions of innovation and entrepreneurship, the “habitat” for entrepreneurship, and the globalization of R&D. His international industrial development studies have focused on Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, and Malaysia.
148 Monin, Benoit, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/monin Using the methods of experimental social psychology, Professor Monin's research investigates the interplay between self-image and morality. He seeks to understand for instance when individuals behave unethically, and how they live with it; the consequences of high or low moral self-confidence; the meaning and role of morality in everyday life; and what empirical psychology can contribute to ethics.
149 Montgomery, David, Professor Emeritus http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/dbm Analysis of competitor response and decision making, global strategic alliances, globalization of marketing, global account management, modeling business-to-business buyer behavior, empirical analysis of the manufacturing/marketing interface, methods and applications of meta-analysis.
150 Morgridge, John, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/morgridg
151 Nair, Harikesh, Associate Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/hnair Harikesh Nair is interested in marketing analytics. His research brings together applied economic theory and econometric tools with Marketing data to better understand consumer behavior and to improve the strategic marketing decisions of firms. His recent research is in the area of pricing, sales-force compensation design, social media and social interactions, network effects, diffusion of technologies and empirical industrial organization, especially in contexts in which marketing activities have dynamic implications for the behavior of consumers and firms.
152 Narayanan, Sridhar, Associate Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/sridharn Sridhar Narayanan’s research focuses on empirical analysis of marketing problems, through the estimation of econometric models on behavioral data. One stream of his work has focused on consumer and firm decisions in situations of consumer uncertainty about new products. Specifically, his research has explored physician learning about new prescription drugs, the changes in the role and effectiveness of marketing communication for products over their life cycle, and the value of information to consumers in telecommunication markets. Another stream of his work has focused on measurement of casual effects. He has studied the application of Regression discontinuity designs to marketing, and causal installed base effects in social contexts. In recent work, he has been looking at causal effects in online advertising. A particular area of interest for Sridhar is the application of Bayesian econometric methods to problems in marketing and empirical industrial organization.
153 Neale, Margaret, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/maneale 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.
154 O'Reilly, Charles, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/coreilly Professor 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.
155 Ostrovsky, Michael, Associate Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/ost Michael Ostrovsky’s research is in the areas of game theory, industrial organization, and finance. Most recently, he has analyzed information aggregation in financial markets, the properties of internet advertising auctions, stability in vertical networks, and voting in shareholder meetings.
156 Oyer, Paul, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/pauloyer Paul Oyer studies the economics of organizations and human resource practices. His recent work has looked at the use of broad-based stock option plans, how firms use non-cash benefits, and how firms respond to limits on their ability to displace workers. Oyer’s current projects include studies of how labor market conditions affect their entire careers when MBAs and PhD economists leave school, how firms identify and recruit workers in high-skill and competitive labor markets (with a focus on the markets for software engineers and newly minted lawyers), and, of most importance to his colleagues, how universities price and allocate parking spaces.
157 Parker, George, Professor Emeritus http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/gparker 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.
158 Patell, James, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/jpatell 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 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 and Design for Service Innovation.
159 Pearl, Robert, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/rmpearl Dr. Robert Pearl's teaching combines theoretical models of strategic thinking and strategic change with his experience as the CEO of a 11 billion a year organization. He believes that there is a disciplined approach which successful leaders follow to maximize their chance of identifying and responding to changes in the competitive environment. As part of his teaching, he uses case studies, video material and individual participation and practice. He believes that successful leaders regardless of the industry must be both technically and interpersonally excellent and that both can be learned. He recommends that leaders combine analytic frameworks and strategic thinking to create a vision for the future, align people and motivate them to move forward ahead of their competition.
160 Perez-Gonzalez, Francisco, Assistant Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/fperezg His research interests are in the intersection of corporate finance and organizational economics. His recent work has examined the importance of top managerial talent for firm performance. He has also recently examined the impact of risk management policies on firm value. Previously, he has studied how the incentives of large shareholders can shape dividend payout and managerial succession decisions; the impact of ownership structures on productivity; and the interaction between competition and corporate governance. Pérez-González has an ongoing research agenda examining the strengths and unique challenges of family firms. His research has examined the performance of family firms both in the U.S. and abroad. His work has been accepted for publication at top economics and finance journals, such as, the American Economic Review, the Journal of Finance and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
161 Peterson, Joel, Consulting Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/jcpet Since 1992, Joel Peterson has taught courses in real estate, entrepreneurship, and leadership at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. Peterson’s course focus is presently on the effective management and leadership of growing businesses. His abiding interest, however, is in students and the important decisions they will make in the business world and in their personal lives.
162 Pfeffer, Jeffrey, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/pfeff Jeffrey Pfeffer has published extensively in the fields of organization 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 and what it is, barriers to its use, and how to implement it.
163 Pfleiderer, Paul, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/pfleider 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.
164 Phills, James, Professor (Teaching) http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/jphills Jim Phills directs and teaches in a number of executive programs and MBA courses focused on organizational strategy and change, leadership, and interpersonal and team effectiveness. His research examines innovation and learning at the group, organizational, and societal levels of analysis. and social innovation.
165 Piotroski, Joseph, Associate Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/jpiotros Professor Joseph Piotroski’s research primarily focuses on financial reporting issues. Within this broad area, his research focuses on how capital market participants use financial accounting information for valuation and risk assessment purposes, how financial, legal, regulatory, and political institutions shape capital market behavior, (including financial reporting practices, governance practices, insider trading activity and foreign listing behavior) and the economic consequences of alternative financial reporting, information dissemination, and governance practices around the world.
166 Plambeck, Erica, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/elp Erica Plambeck is an expert in manufacturing operations and supply chain management, and her current research focuses on environmental sustainability.
167 Porras, Jerry, Professor Emeritus http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/porras Jerry Porras’ research interests are the characteristics of visionary companies in both the United States and Europe; the dynamics of planned organizational change process; organizational vision and its influence on the long-term behavior organizations; and leadership.
168 Porteus, Evan, Professor Emeritus http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/eporteus Evan Porteus’ research focuses on supply chain management, including incentive issues in supply chains, management and coordination of supply chains, management of the supplier–buyer relationship, and inventory management. He also studies capacity management and competition of various sorts, including service providers, new product and process development, and online vs. offline retailing.
169 Powell, Walter, Professor (by courtesy) http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/woodyp Dr. Powell is an organizational sociologist whose current research focuses on how knowledge is transferred across organizations, the role of networks in facilitating or hindering innovation, and the manner in which institutions codify ideas and practices. With Jeannette Colyvas, he is studying the origins of university technology transfer, and the processes by which commercial engagement by faculty eventually became taken-for-granted and institutionalized. With Hokyu Hwang and Tricia Bromley, he is examining the consequences of increased professionalism in the nonprofit sector and its broader impact on civil society. With Jason Owen-Smith, he is analyzing the evolving network structure of the life sciences field and the reshaping of the boundaries of public and private science. With Dan McFarland, Chris Manning, and Dan Jurafsky, he is working on a NSF-funded project to study how scientific ideas are created and propagated, and whether interdisciplinary collaboration enhances, retards, or alters the terra
170 Rachleff, Andrew, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/rachleff Andy Rachleff draws from his many years in the early stage venture capital business to co-teach Formation of New Ventures and a new course he co-developed with Bill Barnett called Aligning Start-ups with their Markets. He is primarily focused on using cases to help students develop their judgment, as he believes that is the key to their entrepreneurial success.
171 Rajan, Madhav, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/mrajan 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.
172 Rao, Hayagreeva, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/hrao 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 the role of collective action as a motor of organizational change and innovation.
173 Rauh, Joshua, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/rauh Joshua Rauh specializes in empirical studies of corporate investment and financial structure, including applications to private equity and venture capital. He has also conducted extensive research on the financial structure of pension funds and their sponsors, and the measurement of public sector pension liabilities.
174 Ray, Michael, Professor Emeritus http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/mlray Professor Ray has published in the fields of marketing, the behavioral science approach to marketing communication, consumer information processing, and new paradigm business. His current focus is on individual and organizational experiences in developing creativity, innovation, and generative leadership within sustainable organizational and world environments.
175 Reguant-Rido, Mar, Assistant Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/mreguant Mar Reguant is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she teaches Data and Decisions in the first year of the MBA program. She works in the area of Industrial Organization with a focus on energy and electricity markets —in particular, attempting to quantify the impacts of important energy and environmental institutions and policies. In her recent work, Mar has explored the role of auction design on electricity markets and the impacts of carbon policies on energy intensive industries. Mar received a PhD in Economics from MIT and a BA in Economics from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.
176 Reichelstein, Stefan, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/sterei Stefan Reichelstein is known internationally for his research on the interface of management accounting and economics. Much of his work has addressed issues in cost- and profitability analysis, decentralization, internal pricing and performance measurement. His research projects have spanned both analytical models and field studies. Reichelstein’s papers been published consistently in leading accounting and economics journals. Insights from his research have been applied by a range of corporations and government agencies. In recent years, Reichelstein has also studied the cost of reducing carbon emissions and the cost competitiveness of different energy sources. In 2011, he joined the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford as a Senior Fellow.
177 Reiss, Peter, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/preiss Peter Reiss is an industrial organization economist and applied econometrician. His research studies how technology, consumer tastes, and industry structure affect firms’ competitive positions. In recent work, he has examined multi-part pricing policies, strategic entry and entry deterrence strategies, and the organization of securities, energy and airline markets. Professor Reiss also does research on statistical issues that arise in applied economic research.
178 Rice, Condoleezza, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/condi Condoleezza Rice is currently the Denning Professor in Global Business and the Economy at the Graduate School of Business; the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution; and a professor of Political Science at Stanford University. She is also a founding partner of RiceHadleyGates LLC.
179 Roberts, John, Professor Emeritus http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/jroberts 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. Most recently, he has undertaken controlled randomized experiments in large firms to investigate the effects of changing management practices.
180 Robin, Carole, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/crobin Carole Robin, PhD, is the Director of the Arbuckle Leadership Fellows program and winner of the 2011-2012 MBA Distinguished Teaching Award. As a consultant and executive coach, she has been helping people and organizations thrive in the business, nonprofit, and public sectors since 1985. Dr. Robin’s experience as a former high-tech sales and marketing senior manager and past partner/principal of an organization consulting firm provides her students with pragmatic, solution-oriented approaches grounded in “having been there.” Her belief is that adults learn best by doing. Her courses combine a high degree of experiential-based activities with case method, theory, and research to ensure rigor, relevance, and practicality. In addition to teaching Leadership Fellows, she teaches courses on interpersonal dynamics, influence, leadership and coaching at the Graduate School of Business.
181 Rohan, Dennis, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/drohan Dennis’ teaching approach integrates his entrepreneurial experience as CEO and cofounder of seven successful companies, academic rigor (PhD Yale) and his passion for his subject area and students. For a number of years he lead S356 “Evaluating Entrepreneurial Opportunities," a project-oriented class he initiated and codeveloped. He currently teaches S321 "Create a New Venture: From Idea to Launch". His belief in the value of learning through project work, with the application of business disciplines, forms the foundation of his teaching. Course development is directed at understanding the process of identifying opportunities and in creating significant new enterprises. One of his joys is to see former students succeed as entrepreneurs, creating value for society and themselves.
182 Rowen, Henry, Professor Emeritus http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/hrowen Henry S. Rowen is an expert on international security, economic development, and high tech industries in the U.S. and Asia. His current research focuses on the rise of Asia in high technologies.
183 Sahni, Navdeep, Assistant Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/nsahni1 Navdeep Sahni’s research focuses on understanding consumers' purchase decisions and the impact of firms' marketing actions. Navdeep’s studies employ various methodologies ranging from econometric analysis to running field experiments to make inferences from data. His PhD dissertation focused on the effect of online sponsored search advertising on consumer decision-making. For this study Navdeep executed a randomized field experiment and used innovative techniques to estimate the impact of repetition and timing of ads on advertisers' returns. To compare counterfactual advertising strategies, he built a memory-based model of learning through multiple ad exposures.
184 Saloner, Garth, Dean http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/saloner
185 Scholes, Myron, Professor Emeritus http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/mscholes Myron Scholes’ research has focused on understanding uncertainty and its effect on asset prices and the value of options, including flexibility options. He has studied the effects of tax policy on asset prices and incentives. He studied the effects of the taxation of dividends on the prices of securities, the interaction of incentives and taxes in executive compensation, capital structure issues with taxation, and the effects of taxes on the optimal liquidation of assets. He wrote several articles on investment banking and incentives and developed a new theory of tax planning under uncertainty and information asymmetry which led to a book with Mark A. Wolfson called Taxes and Business Strategies: A Planning Approach (Prentice Hall, 1991).
186 Schramm, JD, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/jschramm JD Schramm combines over 20 years of professional training and development experience with his personal expertise in Management Communication to design and deliver a variety of highly interactive courses for MBA students at Stanford. A seasoned communicator and experienced entrepreneur his courses blend the theoretical and practical aspects of effective communication. In 2012 Schramm completed his Doctorate of Education (Ed.D.) through the Executive Doctorate Program in Higher Education at the University of Pennsylvania. His dissertation focused on the study of curricular innovation within MBA programs comparing established innovations at MIT and Tulane with an emerging innovation at NYU. His work revealed a nine-point framework indicating what schools of management should strive to be, do and have in order to foster and sustain curricular innovation. Schramm serves as a full-time lecturer in Organizational Behavior and as founding director of the Mastery in Communication Initiative. His current dual role at Stanford’s GSB allows him to pursue both of his professional passions: teaching communication courses while also creating and leading innovative academic programs.
187 Seiler, Stephan, Assistant Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/sseiler Professor Stephan Seiler’s research focuses on analyzing consumer choice in various markets. He analyzes issues ranging from the choice of hospital for a bypass operation to the reaction of consumers to promotions on laundry detergent. He is particularly interested in understanding consumer search behavior, i.e., how informed consumers are about prices or other product characteristics when making a purchase decision. Another strand of research analyzes various issues relating to choice and competition in the healthcare sector.
188 Sharpe, William, Professor Emeritus http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/wfsharpe Professor Sharpe’s research interests focus on macro-investment analysis and equilibrium in capital markets.
189 Shaw, Kathryn, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/kathryns 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 wide 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.
190 Shiv, Baba, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/bshiv Baba Shiv's research expertise is in the area of neuroeconomics, with specific emphasis on the role of neural structures related to emotion and motivation in shaping decisions and experiences. His recent work examines the interplay of the brain’s "liking" and "wanting" systems and its implications for marketing, innovation, leadership and decision making. The nature of the issues that he examines are: Does being denied something make people pursue it more hotly but also simultaneously like it less? Does a wine's price tag price affect the pleasure one experiences? In the past few years, he has also focused his attention onto the neuroeconomics behind innovation and entrepreneurship leadership in companies small and large, from silicon valley tech startups to Fortune 500 companies Baba Shiv teaches courses at the GSB that build on his research interests. Examples of some of the courses that he teaches include, The Frinky Science of the Mind, and Entrepreneurial Ventures in Luxury Markets. He frequently hosts executives from around the world in executive education programs at Stanford on strategic marketing management, design thinking and customer-focused innovation.
191 Shotts, Ken, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/kshotts Professor Shotts uses game theory to analyze how elections and political institutions influence policy choices made by government officials. He has published papers on presidential leadership, term limits, racial redistricting, and the politics of regulatory enforcement. He is currently doing research on several topics, including electoral challengers, competitive policy entrepreneurship, and the politics and economics of industry-level self-regulation. Ken teaches GSB classes on Strategy Beyond Markets and Business Ethics. He also teaches in several Executive Education programs, including the Stanford Executive Program, Executive Program for Strategy and Organization, and Executive Leadership Development.
192 Siegel, Robert, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/resiegel
193 Siegelman, Russell, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/russells Russell Siegelman draws from seven years of high tech experience at Microsoft and eleven years as a venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) to help his students experience the art and science of evaluating and pursuing entrepreneurial opportunities. His goal is that he and his students both learn and have fun while working on entrepreneurial projects that they are passionate about, whether they be for-profit or social ventures. His current and on-going activity as an angel investor keeps him in touch with the entrepreneurial and investing community. He brings this real-world knowledge and practical approach to developing and business and social ventures.
194 Simonson, Itamar, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/itamars Itamar Simonson’s research includes consumer decision making, buyer behavior, consumer evaluation of brands and promotional offers, marketing management, and survey methods. Some of Simonson’s studies demonstrate a variety of seemingly irrelevant and irrational influences on consumers' decisions. These studies introduce a new perspective on consumer behavior and suggest more effective approaches to the design of market research investigations and marketing strategies.
195 Singleton, Kenneth, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/kenneths Kenneth Singleton’s research focuses on econometric methods for estimation and testing of dynamic asset pricing models; modeling of term structures of government and defaultable bond yields; pricing credit derivatives; measuring and managing market, credit, and liquidity risks; and debt financing in emerging economies.
196 Skrzypacz, Andrzej, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/skrz Andrzej (Andy) Skrzypacz's research is in the area of microeconomic theory. His focus is on the areas of information economics, market design, and dynamic games. His recent papers consider auction design, bargaining theory, repeated games, and collusion in markets.
197 Sorensen, Jesper, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/sorensen 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.
198 Soule, Sarah, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/soule 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 has just finished a book with Cambridge University Press, entitled Contention and Corporate Social Responsibility. And, she recently completed a book (with David Snow) called, A Primer on Social Movements. 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.
199 Spence, A, Professor and Dean Emeritus http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/mspence A. Michael Spence’s research interests focus on the study of economic growth and development, dynamic competition and the economics of information.
200 Srinivasan, V, Professor Emeritus http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/seenu “Seenu” Srinivasan’s expertise is in the area of market research. In particular, he is most well 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 14,000 commercial applications of conjoint analysis methods occur. His other research interests are measurement of brand equity and market structure analysis (the nature and magnitude of substitutability among brands in a product market).
201 Stanton, Francis, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/vstanton Vic Stanton has been the Chief Financial Officer for start-up, high tech and retail companies. He also has extensive consulting experience in turnaround and start up companies. This allows him to bring in current and real world situations to the classroom. He focuses on using analyzing financial statements for decision making used by outside financing sources such as venture capital, investment banking, and lending institutions. Emphasis is also place on the current ethics required for companies.
202 Stevens, Mark, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/marks7 Mark Stevens teaches S351, “Building and Managing Professional Sales Organizations”, with Mark Leslie. Earlier in his career, Mark spent over five years in the field sales organization of Intel, serving in a wide variety of capacities. For the past twenty years, he has been a venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital, and has served on numerous private and public boards. He believes that for a company of any size to have long lasting success, it must develop and manage an efficient and strong sales structure. He hopes to impart his years of industry experience to the classroom.
203 Strebulaev, Ilya A, Associate Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/ilyas1 Professor Strebulaev's research is in the area of corporate finance, financial decision-making, venture capital, and credit risk. Recent work has examined issues of dynamic capital structure, strategic financial decision-making, and empirical estimation of firms' financing decisions.
204 Strober, Myra, Professor Emerita http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/myras Myra Strober’s research focuses on the economics of work and family. She has written on gender issues at work, occupational segregation, women in the professions and management, the economics of childcare, and feminist economics. She has also been an expert witness in cases involving the valuation of work in the home, sex discrimination, and sexual harassment, and a consultant for several companies on improved utilization of women in management. Her most recent work is on interdisciplinarity in academia.
205 Sugaya, Takuo, Assistant Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/tsugaya Takuo Sugaya's research is in the area of Microeconomic Theory. His work in game theory examines how entities with their own objectives and information can sustain cooperation in the long term. In a recent paper, he proposes a self-enforcing mechanism that incentivizes firms to maintain collaborative relationships although they are uncertain about the information and strategic behavior of the other parties.
206 Sutton, Robert, Professor (by courtesy) http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/bobsut 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.
207 Taweel, Kevin, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/ktaweel Kevin Taweel co-teaches S355 “Managing Growing Enterprises” with Jim Ellis, who is a lecturer in Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Kevin has participated as a guest speaker/lecturer in this course for the past ten years. Kevin brings with him fifteen years of entrepreneurial experience as CEO of Asurion, a leading technology protection company. He shares and instills in his students professional practices and design principles to create core values essential in establishing and managing growing businesses.
208 Tiedens, Larissa, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/ltiedens Professor Tiedens' research is primarily in two areas: (1) the psychology of social hierarchies, and (2) the social context of emotion. She is specifically interested in the psychological processes involved in the creation and maintenance of hierarchical relationships. Her work on emotion is concerned with the effects of emotion on social judgment and with relations between social roles and emotions.
209 Tonetti, Christopher, Assistant Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/tonetti Christopher Tonetti is a macroeconomist with research in the areas of growth and household finance. His growth research focuses on how firms' investments in innovation and technology adoption contribute to aggregate growth. Recently he has studied how changes in trade policy can alter the competitive environment and affect growth rates by altering the technology adoption patterns of firms. His household finance research focuses on the dynamics of household wealth, income, and consumption over time and over the lifecycle. His recent work studies the savings, consumption, and labor supply patterns of the elderly and their desire for annuities, for insurance against late in life health risks, and to leave bequests.
210 Tormala, Zakary, Associate Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/ztormala Professor Zakary Tormala is an experimental social and consumer psychologist who works in the areas of attitudes, persuasion, and social influence. At a general level, his research on these topics has a fundamental goal of shedding light on the factors and processes that open and close attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors to change. In exploring these issues, he seeks to simultaneously advance basic psychological theory and uncover new and important phenomena -- and potentially powerful strategies -- relevant to predicting and influencing social and consumer behavior.
211 Van Reenen, John, Visiting Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/johnv1 John Van Reenen has established an international reputation as a scholar of the economics of consequences and causes of innovation (for full list see http://cep.lse.ac.uk/textonly/people/vanreenen/papers/default.asp). He works on the applied econometrics of industrial organization and labor economics, especially areas relating to productivity growth, management and organizational practices, R&D, anti-trust, intellectual property, policy evaluation and investment decisions.
212 VanHorne, James, Professor Emeritus http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/jhorne Professor VanHorne has focused his research on issues in corporate finance, valuation, and on the term structure of interest rates. His some 60 articles in finance, economic, and management journals often involve empirical inquiry. He is the author of five books, three of which - Financial Management and Policy, 12th edition; Financial Market Rates and Flows, 6th edition; and Fundamentals of Financial Management, 12th edition, (coauthor) - have been widely used as texts in the U.S.A. and abroad. In addition, he has written 24 cases used in MBA courses in the school.
213 Watson, John, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/jgwatson John G. Watson is currently a Financial Engines Fellow and focuses on post-retirement economics and the modeling of retiree spending and investment decisions. Dr. Watson co-teaches "Modeling for Investment Management" with Professor Steve Grenadier. Many of the techniques used by Financial Engines and other professional investment managers are covered in this course and illustrated using Excel spreadsheet models such as portfolio optimization, mutual-fund style-analysis, and risk-neutral asset-pricing.
214 Wei, Jane, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/janewei Professor Wei-Skillern's research focuses on the leadership and management of social enterprises. She has examined the topics of nonprofit growth and management of multi-site nonprofits, and for nearly a decade, has been focused on nonprofit networks. Her research on nonprofit networks examines how nonprofit leaders that focus less on building their own institutions and instead invest to build strategic networks beyond their organizational boundaries can achieve dramatic gains in mission impact with the same or fewer resources. Some of her pioneering research on nonprofit networks has been published in Stanford Social Innovation Review (The Networked Nonprofit, Spring 2008). She has taught social entrepreneurship and nonprofit strategy to MBAs and executives for more than a decade.
215 Wein, Lawrence, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/lwein Lawrence Wein has three main research interests: manufacturing, health care, and homeland security. Some of his scheduling research has been applied widely in the semiconductor industry, and he has incorporated some manufacturing issues into the analysis of internet auctions. He has used mathematics to analyze treatment protocols for patients with HIV, cancer, and Alzheimer’s disease; the national transplant waiting list for kidneys; the selection of strains to include in the annual influenza vaccine and the design of proteins. His homeland security work concerns bioterrorism and border issues.
216 Wendell, Peter, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/pwendell Peter C. Wendell is the founder and a Managing Director of Sierra Ventures, a Menlo Park, California technology-oriented venture capital firm that has invested more than $1.5 billion over the past 30 years in a wide variety of successful technology companies. Mr. Wendell teaches “Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital," a popular course at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, with Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt. Mr. Wendell has held a faculty appointment at Stanford since 1991 and has taught more than 1,300 Stanford MBA students. Mr. Wendell has been recognized by Forbes magazine as one of the 100 best technology venture investors in the United States and named one of the 15 venture capitalists on Upside magazine’s Elite 100 list of influential U.S. leaders in technology, finance, and business.
217 Whang, Seungjin, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/fwhang Professor Whang's research interest is in supply chain management and the economics of information systems. He studied how demand information may be distorted in a supply chain, and what impacts a secondary market (where retailers exchange excess inventories) has on a supply chain. He has also addressed various pricing issues in a congestion-prone facility. For example, he studied the optimal priority prices in a queueing system where users have their private information about the benefit, time value and service requirement. Recently, he analyzed the menu of fixed-up-to tariffs structure commonly used for mobile phone service and studied how demand uncertainty affects the retailer's dynamic priciing strategy.
218 Wheeler, S., Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/wheelerc Christian Wheeler’s research focuses on how consumers form evaluations and make decisions. This research comprises two interrelated streams. The first stream includes an examination of the various processes involved in attitude formation, maintenance, and change. In particular, his recent work has examined how individuals’ self-beliefs can alter the degree and means by which they are influenced by persuasive messages. The second stream includes an examination of nonconscious processes affecting behavior and judgment. This research suggests that individuals may be affected by subtle situational influences without their awareness or intention.
219 Wilson, Robert, Professor Emeritus http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/rwilson Robert Wilson studies game theory and its applications to business and economics. His research and teaching focus on market design, pricing, negotiation, and related topics concerning industrial organization and information economics. He has been a major contributor to auction designs and competitive bidding strategies in the oil, communication, and power industries, and to the design of innovative pricing schemes.
220 Wolfson, Mark, Consulting Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/fwolfson Before becoming an investment professional, Mark published extensively on subjects ranging from the financial structure of, and incentive arrangements in, business organizations; to taxes and business strategy; to the effect of information disclosures on the valuation of financial claims. He has won research awards in each of these areas. His current interests, in addition to those stated above, include the industrial organization of the global private equity and investment management industries. He currently teaches a course on investment management.
221 Wurster, Thomas, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/twurster
222 Yock, Paul, Professor (by courtesy) http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/pyock Paul Yock’s current research interests include development and testing of catheter-based delivery systems for cardiac cell transplantation and new catheter and molecular imaging techniques for cardiology. He is also involved in the design and early testing of catheter systems to treat coronary and structural heart disease and in new applications of intravascular imaging. He authored the fundamental patents for intravascular ultrasound imaging and conducted the initial clinical trials. Dr. Yock has also authored more than 40 U.S. patents; 300 peer-reviewed publications, chapters, and editorials; and a textbook.
223 Yurukoglu, Ali, Assistant Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/ayurukog Ali Yurukoglu’s research is in the area of industrial organization. He applies statistics to game theoretic models to study regulatory policy and imperfect competition. His research focuses on the media and telecommunications industries. He has recently studied a la carte pricing regulations in cable television, and negotiations and mergers between cable channels and cable distributors.
224 Zegart, Amy, Lecturer http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/zegart Amy Zegart’s research focuses on organizational challenges and innovation in national security. She has studied the creation and evolution of the American national security state since 1947, adaptation failures in the CIA and FBI before 9/11, the roots of weak congressional intelligence oversight, and how business leaders manage global political risks.
225 Zenios, Stefanos, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/stefzen Professor Zenios studies how health care delivery systems use technology to prolong life and improve its quality for patients with complex and expensive medical needs. He is especially interested in the impact the decisions of providers and payers have on the innovators. Some of the issues he examines include: medical technology adoption through shared decision making between physicians and patients; financial incentives for the adoption and initiation of complex treatments; evidence-based decision making and its effect on equitable utilization of medical technology; and early-stage business models in medical technology.
226 Zwiebel, Jeffrey, Professor http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/users/zwiebel Jeffrey Zwiebel’s research focuses on the fields of corporate finance, organizations, the theory of the firm, and microeconomic theory. Particular topics of research interest include financial contracting, bargaining theory, intrafirm bargaining, contract theory, organizational design, political and social belief formation, corporate governance, executive compensation, capital structure, mergers and acquisitions, corporate valuation, and the economics of sports.
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