LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL, Assistant Professor, Department of Strategy and International Management, London United Kingdom, 2009-
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Fellow, Institute of Quantitative Social Science, Cambridge USA, 2011-
NASA, NASA Tournament Lab, Chief Economist, Cambridge USA, 2010-
HEC – PARIS, Assistant Professor, Department of Strategy and Business Policy, Jouy-en-Josas France, 2006 - 2009
EDUCATION
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Sloan School of Management, Cambridge USA
Ph.D., Management (Strategy, Economics Track)
Thesis: How Open Should an Open System Be? Advisors: Rebecca Henderson (MIT-Sloan), Michael Cusumano (MIT-Sloan), Marc Rysman (Boston University, Economics)
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, Economics Dept – Toronto, Canada
M.A. in Economics
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO – School of Engineering - Waterloo, Canada
B.A.Sc. Engineering, minor in Management Science
NBER Mini-Course, What's New in Econometrics?, 2007
RESEARCH
Research Papers & Publications
Earlier Research Assistantships during PhD - Demand and Supply of Debt and Equity for Korean Firms. Olivier Blanchard and Simon Johnson, 2002
- Information Technology Investment, Organizational Capital and Productivity. Erik Brynjolfsson, 2002
- Several dozen publications on Economics and Strategy in Global Telecommunications industry, Economist Intelligence Unit, 1999-2001
TEACHING
Courses Taught
Earlier Teaching Assistantships & Lecturing during PhD and MA - Strategic Management (Masters), Ezra Zuckerman, MIT Sloan, 2006
- The Business of Software (Masters), Michael Cusumano, MIT Sloan, 2005
- Technology Strategy (Masters), Rebecca Henderson, MIT Sloan, 2005
- Managing Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Sloan Fellows), Michael Cusumano, MIT Sloan, 2004
- Managing Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Masters), MBAs, Rebecca Henderson, MIT Sloan, 2004
PRESENTATIONS, SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES
Management Science, Organization Science, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal of Industrial Economics, Strategic Management Journal, Research Policy, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Product Innovation Management, MISQ, JAIS, California Management Review, Sloan Management Review, DRUID conference on Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Strategic Management Society, Academy of Management Meetings – TIM & BPS (Best Reviewer Award 2007), Administrative Science Quarterly, ISR, AofM Technology & Innovation Management Best Paper Committee (2011), Information Economics & Policy Teaching & Course Development-Related Service - Responsible for evaluating appropriateness of all Strategy-related syllabi for LBS exchange students studying at other universities
- Back-filled 6 hours of PhD methods teaching on short notice
- Led faculty peers in preparing advisory document on the use of technology in the classroom 2010
- Taught / designed first-ever LBS MiM Strategy course 2010
- Part of core team to redesign LBS's core strategy course 2010
- Department representative of LBS Strategy course to school wide representatives 2010-
- Part of multiple incremental redesigns of HEC Strategy curriculum 2007-2009
- Devised new courses in Strategy Dynamics and Entrepreneurship and Empirical Methods
Other Service- LBS Strategy Seminar organizer, 2012
- Represent Strategy MBA core course to LBS core course committee, 2010
- LBS task force to recommend use of technology in the classroom, 2010
- Leader of LBS Ghoshal Conference, Innovation and Entrepreneurship track, 2011
- Organizer of LBS Ghoshal Strategy Conference, Innovation and Entrepreneurship track, 2009-2010
- LBS Recruiting Committee member, 2010
- Roundtable leader on Governance at European Academy of Management Doctoral Consortium, 2007
- Organizer of HEC Strategy Department Seminar, 2007
- HEC Masters thesis advisor, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
- HEC Strategy Hiring committee, 2006, 2007
- Co-organizer of Sumantra Goshal Strategy Conference, Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Strategy Track, 2009
AWARDS & HONORS
- Natural Bureau of Economic Research, Innovation Policy working group academic grant 2011-2012
- Google Faculty Research Grant recipient, 2011
- TopCoder grant to study platform evolution, growth and scaling, 2010
- LBS RAMD Research Grant, 2010
- Management Lab to study field experiments on open innovation, 2009
- Honorarium and paper selected by National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) for 50th anniversary conference in honor of "The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity", 2009
- Microsoft Research Grant to study the governance of systems by platform owners, 2007
- Best Reviewer Award, Academy of Management, Business Policy and Strategy Division
- Paris Chamber of Commerce Competitive Research Grant for Research in Media Platforms 2006
- Stewart, Gerrity, and Wilson Fellowships 2003-2005
- MIT Presidential Fellow, 2001
- First Class, University of Toronto Economics
- University of Waterloo Dean’s Honors
- University of Waterloo Undergraduate Research Scholarship
- Second place, Engineering Manufacturing Project, “Semiconductor Manufacturing”
- First place, Mechanical Engineering Design Project
- Engineering Research Excellence Award, Mechanical Design Engineering, Bell Northern Research
- University of Waterloo Entrance Scholarship, based on Sir Isaac Newton Physics Competition
THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT Telecoms, IT, & Media Division (Pyramid Research), UK, USA, 1999-2001
Director of Research
Director, Western Europe Telecoms, IT & Media Advisory
QUALCOMM, Inc., USA, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, 1996-1999
Senior Manager (Contracting and M&A)
Manager (Large-Scale Infrastructure Business Development)
BRAXTON ASSOCIATES, Strategy Consultants, Americas Media & Telecoms, Canada, 1994-1996
Associate,
Business Analyst
NORTEL NETWORKS, Canada, 1992-1996
- Business Systems Analysis (studied systems across Ontario manufacturing, marketing and sales system, interviewed 110 people)
- Microchip Fab Engineer (statistical analysis of performance in semiconductor manufacturing)
- Thermal and Multi-Level Physical Design Engineering Research (experimental study on ‘Non-Contact Cooling’)
CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY, 1992
System Engineer (Canadarm space robotic arm project)
OTHER
Affiliations
- Academy of Management, BPS and TIM divisions
- American Economics Association
- Industrial Organization Society
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Languages
English, French, Spanish
Interests
Cycling distances, running, fly-fishing, Islay for drink, France for food (except steak), steak, canoes, big cities and big nature, highbrow magazines and lowbrow books, allll music. Novelty. |
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