Haas Ph.D. Program

Dissertations & Placements

Brian Chen, 2009
Shorenstein Center at Stanford University, Post Doctoral Scholar in Comparative Health Policy
Three Essays on Prescription Drug Cost-Containment Policies

Barak Richman, 2009
Duke Law School
Essays in Private Ordering: Mechanisms, Efficiencies, and the Law

Robert Seamans, 2009
NYU Stern School of Business
Strategic and Structural Barriers to Entry

Maria Andrea Martens Olivares, 2008
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Three Essays in Empirical Organization

Ian Larkin, 2007
Harvard Business School
Incentive and Contracting Problems in Enterprise Software

Siona Listokin, 2007
George Mason University
Essays in Political Economy

Evan Rawley, 2007
Wharton School of Business
Organization and Performance: Evidence from Microdata

Simon Wakeman, 2007
European School of Management & Technology ( Berlin)
Contracting and Intellectual Property Issues in Biotech Commercialization Strategy

Oliver Beige, 2006
Mercedes-Benz Research
Essays on Preference and Influence

Aaron Chatterji, 2006
Duke University
Empirical Essays on Entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility

Helen (Feng) Liang, 2006
Rutgers Business School
Three Essays of Firm Productivity, Technology Spillovers, and Foreign Direct Investment

Jason Alan Snyder, 2006
Northwestern University, Post Doc
Three Essays on Healthcare Markets and Political Economy

Kira Markiewicz, 2005
Emory University
Knowledge Exploitation, Open Science, and Firm Strategy in a Changing Intellectual Property Rights Environment

John Lamar Pierce, 2005
Carnegie Mellon University
Organizational Structure and Forecasting Capabilities in Consumer Automobile Leasing

Michael Toffel, 2005
Harvard Business School
Voluntary Environmental Management Initiatives: Smoke Signals or Smoke Screens

Geoff Edwards, 2004
Lexecon, Ltd.
The Political Economy of Telecommunications Regulation

Timothy Simcoe, 2004
University of Toronto
Papers on Standards and Technology

Daniel Snow, 2004
Harvard University
Technological Innovation and Firms

Stuart J.H. Graham, 2003
Georgia Institute of Technology
Capturing Value with Secrecy: three Studies Exploring Firms’ Uses of Continuation Patenting in Appropriating Returns from Technological Innovation

Dov Rothman, 2003
Columbia University
Organizational Form and Pricing of Medical Services

Garrick Blalock, 2002
Cornell University
Technology Adoption from Foreign Direct Investment and Exporting Evidence from Indonesian Manufacturing

Bruce Heiman, 2002
San Francisco State University
Knowledge and Governance on Collaboration

Robert Lowe, 2002
Carnegie Mellon University
University Research Through New Firm Formation

Helen (Feng) Liang, Ph.D. 06
Assistant Professor
Rutgers Business School Department of Management and Global Business
Newark, New Jersey

"At Haas you are expected to be independent in working on your research, but at the same time you get a lot of support from your professors and fellow students."