Current Research Topics

Psychological barriers to organizational learning and leadership effectiveness, self-enhancement and decision making, social barriers to entrepreneurship, industrial agglomerations, community competition

Selected Publications

With C.I. Rider, "A Garage and an Idea: What More does an Entrepreneur Need?", California Management Review, 48, 2005; 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; with C.I. Rider, "Close, But Not the Same: Locally-Headquartered Organizations and Agglomeration Economies," Research Policy, 39, 2010; with J.H. Freeman, "Community Context and Founding Processes of Banking Organizations," Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 33, 2011; with A.H. Jordan, “Self-Enhancement and Learning from Performance Feedback,” Academy of Management Review, 37, 2012; with J. Kurkoski, “An Ecological Analysis of Competition Among U.S. Communities,” Industrial and Corporate Change, forthcoming, 2012

Awards

Winner, most significant publication in the field of organizational behavior, Academy of Management, 2001; Finalist, best paper published in Academy of Management Journal, 2001; Kauffman Foundation Grant, "Industrial Agglomerations and Entrepreneurship," 2006; Experimental Social Science Laboratory (XLAB) grant, University of California, Berkeley, "Decision Making Under Ambiguity," 2006; 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; Faculty Director, Center for Leadership, Tuck School, 2009–present

Editorial positions: Editorial Boards: Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science