Education

BA, Università della Calabria, 1989; MBA, Università Bocconi, 1990; PhD, University of Maryland, 1996

Current research topics

Why and when executives hold inaccurate perceptions of their performance, negative effects of success on organizations, leadership and organizational change, social networks and entrepreneurship

selected publications

With H. Greve, "Less Likely to Fail: Performance, Firm Size, and Factory Expansion in the Shipbuilding Industry," Management Science, 52, 2006; with J.H. Freeman, "Community Ecology and the Sociology of Organizations," Annual Review of Sociology, 32, 2006; with J.H. Freeman and P. Reynolds, "Organizational Foundings in Community Context: Instruments Manufacturers and Their Interrelationship with Other Organizations," Administrative Science Quarterly, 51, 2006; with J.A. Goncalo, "Success and Creativity Over Time: A Study of Inventors in the Hard Disk Drive Industry," Management Science, 53, 2007; with S. Brion, "Reluctant to Change: Self-Enhancing Responses to Diverging Performance Measures," Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 102, 2007

awards

Most significant publication in the field of organizational behavior, Academy of Management, 2001; Finalist, best paper published in Academy of Management Journal, 2001; Finalist, Accenture Award, California Management Review, 2007

professional activities

Academic positions: Assistant and Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, London Business School, 1996–2002; Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, 2002–07; Tuck School of Business, 2007–present

Editorial positions: Referee, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Industrial and Corporate Change, Industry and Innovation, Journal of Economic Geography, Organization Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Research Policy, Strategic Management Journal

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