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Pierre Azoulay

Pierre Azoulay

International Programs Professor of Management

Featured Publications

"Age and High-Growth Entrepreneurship."

Azoulay, Pierre, Benjamin Jones, Daniel Kim, and Javier Miranda. American Economic Review: Insights Vol. 2, No. 1 (2020): 65-82. Download Paper.

"Funding Breakthrough Research: Promises and Challenges of the 'ARPA Model'."

Azoulay, Pierre, Erica Fuchs, Anna P. Goldstein, and Michael Kearney. Innovation Policy and the Economy Vol. 19, (2019): 69-96. Also NBER Working Paper #24674.

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Phil Budden

Phil Budden

Senior Lecturer, Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management

Featured Publication

"A Systematic MIT Approach for Assessing 'Innovation-Driven Entrepreneurship' in Ecosystems."

Budden, Phil, Fiona Murray, and Anna Turskaya, Working Paper. February 2019.

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Michael A. Cusumano

Michael A. Cusumano

Sloan Management Review Distinguished Professor of Management

Featured Publications

"Services, Industry Evolution, and the Competitive Strategies of Product Firms."

Cusumano, Michael A., Steven Kahl and Fernando F. Suarez. Strategic Management Journal Vol. 36, No. 4 (2015): 559-575.

"Industry Platforms and Ecosystem Innovation."

Gawer, Annabelle and Michael A. Cusumano. Journal of Product Innovation Management Vol. 31, No. 3 (2014): 417-433.

"Services and the Business Models of Product Firms: An Empirical Analysis of the Software Industry."

Suarez, Fernando F., Michael A. Cusumano and Steven Kahl. Management Science Vol. 59, No. 2 (2013): 420-435.

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Danielle Li

Danielle Li

David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology

Featured Publications

"Discretion in Hiring."

Hoffman, Mitchell, Lisa Kahn, and Danielle Li. Quarterly Journal of Economics Vol. 133, No. 2 (2018): 765-800. Download paper.

"​Promotions and the 'Peter Principle'."

Benson, Alan, Danielle Li, and Kelly Shue. Quarterly Journal of Economics Vol. 134, No. 4 (2019): 2085–2134.

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Fiona E. Murray

Fiona E. Murray

Associate Dean for Innovation and Inclusion, William Porter (1967) Professor of Entrepreneurship

Featured Publications

"Entrepreneurial Attraction: Investors Prefer Entrepreneurial Ventures Pitched By Attractive Men."

Brooks, Alison Wood, Laura Huang, Sarah Wood Kearney and Fiona Murray. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science Vol. 111, No. 12 (2014): 4427–4431.

"Developing Successful Strategic Partnerships with Universities."

Frølund, Lars, Fiona Murray, and Max Riedel. MIT Sloan Management Review, January 2018.

"A New Vision for Funding Science."

Kearney, Sarah, Fiona Murray, and Matthew Nordan. Stanford Social Innovation Review, September 2014.

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Jacquelyn Pless

Jacquelyn Pless

Fred Kayne (1960) Career Development Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship

Featured Publications

"Pass-Through as a Test for Market Power: An Application to Solar Subsidies."

Pless, Jacquelyn, and Arthur A. van Benthem. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics Vol. 11, No. 4 (2019): 367-401. Online Appendix. Data Set. NBER Working Paper No. 23260.

"Are Complementary Policies Substitutes? Evidence from R&D Subsidies in the UK."

Pless, Jacquelyn (Conditionally accepted, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy), MIT Sloan Working Paper 5788-18. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, July 2024.

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Robert C. Pozen

Robert C. Pozen

Senior Lecturer, Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management

Featured Publications

"​Trump’s tax plan is one big step from reality."

Pozen, Robert. Market Watch, September 29, 2017.

"​Why the Trump tax plan’s fuzzy math doesn’t add up."

Pozen, Robert. Market Watch, September 26, 2017.

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Georg Rilinger

Georg Rilinger

Fred Kayne (1960) Career Development Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship

Featured Publications

Failure by Design.

Rilinger, Georg. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2024.

"Algorithmic Management and the Social Order of Digital Markets."

Rilinger, Georg. Theory and Society (2024).

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Scott Stern

Scott Stern

David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology

Featured Publications

"The Empirics of Social Progress: The Interplay Between Subjective Well-Being and Societal Performance."

Stern, Scott. AEA: Papers and Proceedings Vol. 108, (2018): 477-482.

"The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Innovation."

Cockburn, Iain M., Rebecca Henderson, and Scott Stern. In The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: An Agenda, edited by Ajay K. Agrawal, Avi Goldfarb, and Joshua Gans, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2019.

"The Impact of the Entry of Biosimilars: Evidence from Europe."

Morton, Fiona M. Scott, Ariel Dora Stern, and Scott Stern. Review of Industrial Organization Vol. 53, No. 1 (2018): 173-210. Download Paper.

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Donald Sull

Donald Sull

Professor of the Practice, Senior Lecturer, Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management

Featured Publications

"How to Fix a Toxic Culture."

Sull, Donald, and Charles Sull. MIT Sloan Management Review, September 28, 2022.

"Why Every Leader Needs to Worry About Toxic Culture."

Sull, Donald, William Cipolli, Caio Brighenti, and Charles Sull. MIT Sloan Management Review, March 16, 2022.

"Toxic Culture Is Driving the Great Resignation."

Sull, Donald, Charles Sull, and Ben Zweig. MIT Sloan Management Review, January 11, 2022.

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Catherine J. Turco

Catherine J. Turco

Michael M. Koerner (1949) Professor of Entrepreneurship

Featured Publications

Harvard Square: A Love Story.

Turco, Catherine J. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2023.

The Conversational Firm: Rethinking Bureaucracy in the Age of Social Media.

Turco, Catherine. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2016.

"Verstehen for Sociology: Comment on Watts."

Turco, Catherine, and Ezra Zuckerman Sivan. American Journal of Sociology Vol. 122, No. 4 (2017): 1272-1291.

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James M. Utterback

James M. Utterback

David J. McGrath jr (1959) Professor of Management and Innovation, Emeritus

Featured Publications

"A Dynamic Model of Product and Process Innovation."

Utterback, James M. and William J. Abernathy. Omega Vol. 3, No. 6 (1975): 639-656.

"Strategies for Survival in Fast-Changing Industries."

Christensen, Clayton M., Fernando F. Suárez and James M. Utterback. Management Science Vol. 44, No. 12 (1998): S207-S220.

"The Emergence of the Nanobiotechnology Industry."

Maine, Elicia, V.J. Thomas, Martin Bliemel, Armstrong Murira and James M. Utterback. Nature Nanotechnology Vol. 9, (2014): 2-5.

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Eric Arthur von Hippel

Eric Arthur von Hippel

T. Wilson (1953) Professor in Management

Featured Publications

"The User Innovation Paradigm: Impacts on Markets and Welfare."

Gambardella, Alfonso, Christina Raasch, and Eric von Hippel. Management Science Vol. 63, No. 5 (2017): 1450-1468.

"Identifying Viable 'Need-Solution Pairs': Problem Solving Without Problem Formulation."

von Hippel, Eric, and Georg von Krogh. Organization Science Vol. 27, No. 1 (2016): 207-221.

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Ezra W. Zuckerman Sivan

Ezra W. Zuckerman Sivan

Alvin J. Siteman (1948) Professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategy

Featured Publications

"It's the Conventional Thought That Counts."

Correll, Shelley J., Cecilia L. Ridgeway, Ezra Zuckerman Sivan, Sharon Jank, Sara Jordan-Bloch, and Sandra Nakagawa. American Sociological Review Vol. 82, No. 2 (2017): 297-327.

"The Problems and Promise of Hierarchy: Voice Rights and the Firm."

Freeland, Robert F. and Ezra W. Zuckerman Sivan. Sociological Science (2018).

"A Sociological Approach to Market Efficiency."

Sivan, Ezra Zuckerman. Presentation, American Sociology Association, United States. 2013.

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