Please note that faculty are subject to change and not all faculty teach in each session of the program.

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  Pierre Azoulay

  Sloan Distinguished Associate Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
  

  Pierre Azoulay joined the MIT Sloan School faculty in July 2006. In his research, he investigates how organizational design and social networks influence the productivity of R&D in the health care sector. Currently, he is studying the impact of superstar researchers on the research productivity of their colleagues in the academic life sciences... ... (more)

  Pierre Azoulay joined the MIT Sloan School faculty in July 2006. In his research, he investigates how organizational design and social networks influence the productivity of R&D in the health care sector. Currently, he is studying the impact of superstar researchers on the research productivity of their colleagues in the academic life sciences. He is also interested in the topic of academic entrepreneurship, having recently concluded a major study of the antecedents and consequences of academic patenting. In the past, he has researched the outsourcing strategies of pharmaceutical firms, in particular the role played by contract research organizations in the clinical trials process. He teaches courses on strategy and technology strategy.

  Professor Azoulay is also a faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. From 2001 and 2006, he was Associate Professor of Management at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business. (less)

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  Ezra Zuckerman

  Nanyang Technological University Professor
  Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
  Chair MIT Sloan PhD Program
  

  Ezra Zuckerman is an economic sociologist with a focus on social network analysis. He studies how social structures of various kinds emerge and influence behavior and key outcomes for individuals, teams, and organizations. Zuckerman's current research projects include a study of industry peer networks, exclusive groups of noncompeting peer firms from the same industry that gather on a regular basis to learn from one another's experiences and to motivate one another to achieve higher performance... ... (more)

  Ezra Zuckerman is an economic sociologist with a focus on social network analysis. He studies how social structures of various kinds emerge and influence behavior and key outcomes for individuals, teams, and organizations. Zuckerman's current research projects include a study of industry peer networks, exclusive groups of noncompeting peer firms from the same industry that gather on a regular basis to learn from one another's experiences and to motivate one another to achieve higher performance.

  Prior to joining the MIT Sloan School of Management, Zuckerman taught strategic management and organizational behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

  He earned a PhD in sociology from the University of Chicago. (less)