Professor | Leo Helzel Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation | Faculty Director, Lester Center for Entrepreneurship | Distinguished Teaching Fellow
Management of Organizations
About
Toby E. Stuart is the Helzel Chair in Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Innovation and the Faculty Director of the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship. Previously, he taught at Harvard Business School, Columbia Business School, and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he received his first chaired, full professorship at the age of 32.
Stuart is the recipient of the 2007 Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship, which is granted every other year to recognize one individual’s contributions to entrepreneurship research. He has received teaching awards at Columbia Business School and Berkeley Haas. He has won the Administrative Science Quarterly’s Scholarly Contribution (best paper) award, and other recognitions for scholarly contributions. He is a Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Center for Corporate Reputation.
Much of Stuart’s research has examined social networks, particularly their role in entrepreneurship, innovation, and strategy. In some of his current projects, he is investigating email networks and employment outcomes in a variety of companies; the referral network among doctors in the U.S. healthcare system; matching in a few online networks; and the collaboration network in the academic life sciences.
At Harvard and Columbia, he served as course head for Entrepreneurship and Strategy Formulation, respectively. He has taught MBA and executive courses in corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, innovation and technology strategy, leadership, venture capital and private equity, and entrepreneurship. He launched and remains Co-director of the Executive Program in Corporate Strategy at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is also the Founding Faculty Director of the Program on Competitive Strategy and Innovation at Berkeley Haas; and he has Co-directed Harvard Business School’s Creating Corporate-Level Advantage Strategy Program for senior executives. He has served as a consultant or executive educator at dozens of companies around the world. Currently, he is a member of the board of directors of HNTB Holdings and also advises a number of startups. He is on the Advisory Boards of ShanghaiTech School of Entrepreneurship and Management, PhilDev and Skydeck, a startup incubator at UC Berkeley.
Expertise and Research Interests
- Entrepreneurship
- Corporate Strategy
- Toby Stuart, Yanbo Wang, Jizhen Li. Fraud and Innovation. Administrative Science Quarterly.
2020 - Toby Stuart, Mathijs de Vaan. Does Intra-household Contagion Cause an Increase in Prescription Opioid Use?. American Sociological Review.
2019 - Toby E Stuart, Pierre Azoulay, Brian Reschke. Status Spillovers. Administrative Science Quarterly.
2017 - Toby E Stuart, Brian Reschke. The Matthew Effect and Lucan Lawyer: Outlining an Ecological Approach to Status Research. Journal of Management Inquiry.
2017 - Pierre Azoulay, Christopher C Liu, Toby E Stuart. Social Influence Given (partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs. American Journal of Sociology.
2017 - Danaja Maldeniya, Arun Varghese, Toby E Stuart, Daniel M Romero. The Role of Optimal Distinctiveness and Homophily in Online Dating. ICWSM.
2017 - Toby E Stuart, Yanbo Wang. Who Cooks the Books in China, and Does It Pay?. Strategic Management Journal.
2016 - Toby E Stuart, Chris Liu and Sameer Srivastava. An Intraorganizational Ecology of Individual Attainment. Organization Science.
2015 - Toby Stuart and Chris Anderson. 3D Robotics: Disrupting the Drone Market. California Management Review.
2015
At Haas since 2010
2012 – present, Professor, Haas School of Business
2012 – present, Leo Helzel Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Haas School of Business
2012 – present, Faculty Director, Lester Center for Entrepreneurship
2010 – 2012, Visiting Professor, Haas School of Business
2006 – 2010, Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
2004 – 2006, Arthur J. Samberg Professor of Leadership and Strategy; Academic Director, Lang Center for Entrepreneurship, Columbia Business School
2000 – 2003, Fred Steingraber A.T. Kearney Professor of Organizations & Strategy, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago
1999, Associate Professor of Organizations & Strategy, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago
1995 – 1999, Assistant Professor of Organizations & Strategy, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago
1989 – 1991, Research Associate, Graduate School of Business, Harvard University
- Doctoral Policy Committee, Harvard Business School
- EM Unit Doctoral Coordinator, Harvard Business School
- Academic Director, Lang Center for Entrepreneurship, Columbia Business School
- Head of Management Department doctoral program, Columbia Business School
- Chair of Management Department search committee, Columbia Business School
- Head of doctoral program in O&M group, Chicago
- Administrative head of O&M group, Chicago
- Editorial Board Member: Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Research Policy, Administrative Science Quarterly, Industrial and Corporate Change
- Ad Hoc Reviewer: American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Management Science, Organization Science, Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of Law and Economics, Sociological Quarterly.
Oliver Williamson Award, the highest faculty prize at Berkeley-Haas
2016
Chiet Award for Teaching Excellence in the Executive MBA program, Haas School of Business
2015
Chiet Award for Teaching Excellence in the Full time MBA program, Haas School of Business
2014
Fellow, the Reputation Institute, Oxford University
2012
Elected to Sociological Research Association
2009
University of Southern California’s Grief Award for Research Impact for paper in Entrepreneurship
2008
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship
2006
Administrative Science Quarterly’s Award for Scholarly Contribution
2006
Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence, Columbia Business School
2004
NSF Research Grant
2003
Voted “outstanding faculty member” by MBA students in Business Week’s Guide to the Best Business Schools
2001
Research grants from the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership
2001, 2000, 1999, 1998
FMC Scholar, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago
1997
State Farm Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
1994
Doctoral Program Merit Scholarship, Stanford University
1992
Awarded stipend to participate in Stanford Seminar on Social Theory
1992
National Doctoral Fellowship, AACSB
1991
- UC Berkeley Researchers: Opioid Addiction Is A Family Affair, KCBS Radio, 08/02/2019
- Is the Opioid Epidemic Driven By Family Consumption?, The Crime Report, 07/19/2019
- Building Diversity: The People That Analytics Often Leaves Behind, Knowledge @ Wharton, 06/08/2017
- Want to launch your own business? Working for a startup is a great way to begin, The Globe and Mail, 09/06/2016
- The Tampon of the Future, The New York Times, 04/01/2016