Haas Ph.D. Program

Dissertations & Placements

Connson Chou Locke, 2008
London School of Economics
The Downside of Looking Like a Leader: Examining the Effects for Leadership Demeanor on Follower Voice

Christopher I. Rider, 2008
Emory University, Goizueta Business School
Network Positions and Processes: Evidence from U.S. Private Equity

Kuo-Hui Frank Yu, 2008
City University of Hong Kong
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Managing Uncertainty

Erika Gail Henik, 2008
Goldman Sachs & Co.
The Effects of Value Conflict and Emotions on Potential Whistle-Blowers

Vinit Desai, 2007
University of Colorado, Denver
Constraints on Organizational Learning from Poor Performance in the Modern American Railroad Industry, 1978-2003

Michael Haselhuhn, 2007
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Seeing What We Want to See: How Approach-Avoidance Orientations Affect Motivated Reasoning

Margaret Ormiston, 2007
London Business School
Beyond a Preference for Similarity: The Distinctiveness Motive in Similar and Diverse Groups

Carmit Tador, 2006
Harvard University, Research Fellow
Biculturalism: The Plus Side of Leaving Home? The Effects of Second-Culture Exposure on Integrative Complexity and its Consequences for Overseas Performance

Peter Madsen, 2006
Brigham Young University
The Co-diffusion of Organizational and Policy Innovations: The Spread of a New Organizational Form and Its Supporting Legislation in the U.S. Insurance Industry

Elaine Michelle Wong, 2005
Northwestern University
It Could Have Been Better: The Effects of counterfactual Communication on Impression Formation and Performance

Jack Goncalo, 2004
Cornell University
Hidden Consequences of the Group-Serving Bias: An Attributional Theory of Convergent Thinking in Groups

Alicia Dolbashian Boisnier, 2003
State University of New York, buffalo
Strong Cultures and Subcultures: A Multilevel Framework for Understanding the Emergence and Consequences of Organizational Subcultures

Olga Michael Khessina, 2003
Georgetown University
EntryMode. Technological Innovation and Firm Survival in the Worldwide Optical Disk Drive Industry 1983-1999

Gwendolyn Kuo-Fang Lee, 2003
INSEAD Singapore
Competitive Consequences of Technological Convergence in an Era of Innovations Telephone Communications and Computer Networking. 1989-2001

Lindy Archambeau, 2001
University of Utah
The Structure of Opportunity: A Multi-level Analysis of Job Mobility

Jonathan Jaffee, 2001
Carnegie-Mellon University
The Resource Partitioning of a Corporate Legal Market: The Competitive Dynamics of Generalist and Specialist Corporate Law Firms

Christopher Rider, Ph.D. 08
Assistant Professor, Organization & Management Goizueta Business School Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

"At some point, I realized that I would never be truly challenged to do my best work unless that work was my own. While studying for my MBA, I learned that an academic environment that encourages intellectual curiosity and accepts open-ended answers to interesting research questions is one that I prefer to a corporate environment."