Current ITM Doctoral Students

David James Brunner
Entering Class of 2004

Office: Wyss House 102
Email: dbrunner-at-hbs.edu

Research Interests: The impact of information technology on organizational problem solving, business strategy, and growth; Operations management in complex, IT-enabled business ecosystems; Varieties of capitalism, corporate governance, and corporate social responsibility; Organizational social capital and its implications for individuals, firms, and societies; Comparative analysis of U.S. and Japanese business and political economy; Designing habitats for high technology entrepreneurship

Collaborators: Marco Iansiti, Michael Tushman, HT Kung, Lee Fleming

Publications & Conference Proceedings:
* Fleming, Lee, Alan MacCormack, Darren Zinner, and David James Brunner. "R&D Project Selection and Portfolio Management: A Review of the Past, a Description of the Present, and a Sketch of the Future." In Blackwell Handbook of Technology Management. Blackwell Publishers, forthcoming.
* Staats, Brad, David James Brunner, and Marco Iansiti. "Evidence that IT Matters: Using IT Deployment to Explore the Link Between IT and Firm Performance." Paper presented at INFORMS 2005 in San Francisco.
* Feigenbaum, Edward A. and David J. Brunner. The Japanese Entrepreneur: Making the Desert Bloom. Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shimbunsha, 2002 (in Japanese).


David Chen
Entering Class of 2003

Office: Wyss House 302C
Email: dchen-at-hbs.edu

Research Interests: Mobile Telecommunications, Online/Mobile Advertising, E-commerce, Multi-sided Markets, Market Design

Collaborators: David Parkes, Peter Coles, Andrei Hagiu

Publications & Conference Proceedings:
* Lee Fleming, Santiago Mingo, and David Chen. "Brokerage and Collaborative Creativity." 2006. (Provisionally accepted at Administrative Science Quarterly).


Lyra Colfer
Entering Class of 2002

Office: Gallatin Hall E
Email: lcolfer-at-hbs.edu

Research Interests: Software Engineering, Business Models in IT, Problem Solving and Learning in Knowledge Work, Social Systems Modeling

Collaborators: Lee Flemming

Publications & Conference Proceedings:
* Fleming, L., Colfer, L. and Marin, A. (2003). "Why the Valley Went First: Agglomeration and Emergence in Regional Inventor Networks." Presented at the 2004 Academy of Management Conference and 2004 Wharton Technology Mini-Conference. (anticipated for publication in a volume edited by J. Padgett and W. Powell, entitled Market Emergence and Transformation)

CV: Available Here


Jolie Martin
Entering Class of 2002

Office: Wyss House 302E
Email: jolie-at-hbs.edu

Research Interests: Behavioral Economics, Human/Computer Interaction

Collaborators: Max Bazerman, Michael I. Norton, and Greg Barron

Publications & Conference Proceedings:
*Martin, Jolie, Greg Barron, and Michael I. Norton. "Choosing Uncertainty: Preferences for Variance in Experiences." London Business School Trans-Atlantic Doctoral Conference, 2007.
*Martin, Jolie, Greg Barron, and Michael I. Norton. "Preferences for Variance: When and Why Do We Choose to Be Uncertain?" Yale School of Management Conference on Behavioral Science, 2007.
*Martin, Jolie, Greg Barron, and Michael I. Norton. "Choosing to Be Uncertain: Preferences for High Variance Experiences." Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference, 2007.
*Martin, Jolie, Greg Barron, and Michael I. Norton. "Preferences for High Variance Experiences: Risk-seeking in the Domain of Gains?" Society for Judgment and Decision Making Conference, 2006.
*Martin, Jolie. "Ratings Variance in Recommender Systems." The Present and Future of Recommender Systems Conference, 2006.


Katy Milkman
Entering Class of 2004

Office: Baker Library 444C
Email:
kmilkman-at-hbs.edu

Research Interests: E-commerce, Decision Theory, Behavioral Economics, Game Theory, Experimental Economics, and Computational Analysis of Literature

Collaborators: Max Bazerman, Kathleen McGinn, John Beshears, Todd Rogers, and Markus Nöth

Publications & Conference Proceedings:
* Milkman, Katherine L. "Statistical Analysis of 1990s New Yorker Fiction," INFORMS Annual Conference, Denver, CO, Session TC24, October 2004.
* Milkman, K.L., R. Carmona and W. Gleason. "A Statistical Analysis of Editorial Influence and Author-Character Similarities in 1990s New Yorker Fiction." Journal of Literary and Linguistic Computing, forthcoming.
* Milkman, Katherine L. and John L. Beshears (with Todd Rogers and Max H. Bazerman). " Mental Accounting and Small Windfalls: Evidence from an Online Grocer." Research presented at Harvard Business School’s Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Seminar, Cambridge, MA, May 2007.

Website: www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~kmilkman


Allan Sumiyama
Entering Class of 2003

Office: Morgan Hall 480A
Email: asumiyama-at-hbs.edu

Research Interests: Product Development, Software Engineering, and Organizational Learning

Collaborators: Stefan Thomke


Feng Zhu
Entering Class of 2002

Office: Wyss House
Email: feng-at-hbs.edu

Research Interests: Technology Strategy, Two-sided Markets, Technology Adoption and Diffusion, Business Value of Information Technology, Intellectual Property Protection, User Innovation

Collaborators: Marco Iansiti, Erik Brynjolfsson, Michael Zhang, Josh Lerner, Michael Mitzenmacher

Publications & Conference Proceedings: See http://people.hbs.edu/fzhu/ for details.




 Last Updated: October 27, 2007