Ph.D., Business Administration
University of California, Berkeley
Thesis: “The Politics of the Court and the Strategy of the Firm”
Committee Chair: Oliver E. Williamson

Associate Professor of Strategic Management

Assistant Professor of Strategic Management

REFEREED PAPERS

Ansolabehere, Stephen D., John M. de Figueiredo, and James M. Snyder (2003) "Why Is There So Little Money in U.S. Politics?" Journal of Economic Perspectives 17(1) 105-130.

de Figueiredo, John M., and Rui J. de Figueiredo, Jr. (2002). "The Allocation of Resources by Interest Groups: Lobbying, Litigation, and Administrative Regulation," Business and Politics 4(2): 161-181.

de Figueiredo, John M., and Rui J. de Figueiredo, Jr. (2002). "Managerial Decision-Making in Nonmarket Environments: A Survey Experiment," Advances in Strategic Management, pp. 67-96.

de Figueiredo, John M., and Emerson H. Tiller (2001). "The Structure and Conduct of Lobbying: An Empirical Analysis of Corporate Lobbying at the Federal Communications Commission," Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 10(1): 91-122.

de Figueiredo, John M., Gerry Gryski, Emerson Tiller, and Gary Zuk (2000). "Congress and the Political Expansion of the U.S. District Courts," American Law and Economics Review, 2(1): 107-125.

de Figueiredo, John M. (2000). "Finding Sustainable Profitability in Electronic Commerce," Sloan Management Review, 41(4): 41-52.
- Reprinted in eds. Erik Brynjolfsson and Glen Urban. Strategies for Success in E-Business. (Josey Bass: New York), 2002.

de Figueiredo, John M. (2000). "Litigating Regulation: Corporate Strategy in Telecommunications," Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management 2000.

de Figueiredo, John M., and Emerson H. Tiller (1996). "Congressional Control of the Courts: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Expansion of the Federal Judiciary," Journal of Law and Economics 39(2): 435-462.

de Figueiredo, John M., and David J. Teece (1996). "Mitigating Procurement Hazards in the Context of Innovation," Industrial and Corporate Change 5(2): 537-559.
- Reprinted in eds. Glenn Carroll and David Teece, Firms, Markets and Organizations, (Oxford University Press: Oxford), 1999.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Teece, David J., Janet E. Bercovitz, and John M. de Figueiredo (2001). "Decision Making Processes and the Rate and Direction of Innovation", Managing Intellectual Capital (Oxford University Press: Oxford), pp. 69-87.

Bercovitz, Janet E., John M. de Figueiredo, and David J. Teece (1997). "Firm Capabilities and Managerial Decision-Making: A Theory of Innovation Biases," in R. Garud, P. Nayaar, and Z. Shapira,(eds.), Technological Innovation: Oversights and Foresights (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press), pp. 233-259.
- Reprinted in Teece, David (editor), Strategy, Technology, and Public Policy (Edward Elgar: New York), 1998.

INVITED INTRODUCTION TO A SPECIAL ISSUE OF JOURNAL

de Figueiredo, John M. (2002). "Lobbying and Information in Politics," Business and Politics 4(2): 125-129.

WORKING PAPERS

de Figueiredo, John M., and Brian S. Silverman. "Academic Earmarks and the Returns to Lobbying," NBER Working Paper #9064, revised and resubmitted to the American Economic Review.

de Figueiredo, John M. and Margaret K. Kyle. "Complementary Assets and Product Strategy," revise and resubmit at Management Science.

de Figueiredo, John M., and Margaret K. Kyle "Surviving the Gales of Creative Destruction: The Determinants of Product Turnover," revised and resubmitted toStrategic Management Journal.

de Figueiredo, John M., and James K. Kim. "When do Firms Hire Lobbyists? The Organization of Lobbying at the Federal Communications Commission," revise and resubmit at Industrial and Corporate Change.

de Figueiredo, John M. "The Dynamics of Vertical Integration: An End to the Moratorium?" revised and resubmitted to Transaction Cost Economics and the 70th Birthday of Oliver Williamson (book chapter).

de Figueiredo, John M. "Committee Jurisdiction and Internet Intellectual Property Protection," revise and resubmit at the Journal of Politics.

de Figueiredo, John M. "Strategic Litigants and Ideological Courts: A Study of Litigation of FCC Decisions," under submission to the Journal of Law, Economics and Organization.

de Figueiredo, John M. "The Structure of Legislatures and the Timing of Interest Group Lobbying," in preparation for submission to the American Political Science Review.

WORK IN PROGRESS

"Offensive and Defensive Lobbying for Budgets" (with Stephen D. Ansolabehere and James M. Snyder)

"The Empirical Truth of Campaign Finance Reform: McConnell v FEC" (with Einer Elhague)

"Lobbying in the Shadow of Litigation in the Telecommunications Industry" (with Rui J. de Figueiredo and James J. Kim)

"Timing is Everything: When Do Firms Lobby the Federal Communications Commission, and Does It Matter? (with Rui J. de Figueiredo and James J. Kim)

“Does Business Investment Respond to the Political Environment?”

“Lobbying, Science, and Elections” (with Brian S. Silverman)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP AND ACTIVITIES

• Editorial Board, Business and Politics
• Associate Editor, Industrial and Corporate Change
• Member of American Law and Economics Association, American Political Science Association, Academy of Management, American Economic Association, Federal Communications Bar Association
• Area Organizer, Positive Political Theory Division, 2002 American Law and Economics Meetings

• 15.900 Strategic Management (MBA Core Class) (1997-2002)
  -   Evaluations of 4.7/5.0 (Core Class mean 4.1)
• 15.991 Nonmarket and Institutional Strategy (MBA Elective) (2002-2003)
  -   Evaluations of 4.9/5.0 (Elective mean 4.3)
• 15.949 Doctoral Research in Strategic Management (1998-2001, 2003)
• 15.967 Doctoral Seminar in Nonmarket and Integrated Strategy (2000)

• Jordan Siegel (2003), Ph.D., Business; Reader (placed at Harvard Business School)
• Margaret Kyle (2002), Ph.D., Economics; Reader (placed at Carnegie Mellon)
• Micky Suhas Tripathi (2000), Ph.D., Political Science; Reader (placed at the Boston Consulting Group)
• Takashi Uchida (2003 expected), Masters, Advisor
• Pedro Ferriera (2002), Masters, Reader
• Joo Hyung Lee (2001), Masters, Advisor
• Tomoyuki Oto (2000), Masters, Advisor
• Erin Rae Hoffer (2000), Masters, Advisor
• Dale Freelove (1999), Masters, Advisor
• Bruce Wolfeld (1999), Masters, Advisor

• Program on Innovation, Management and Organization Grant (2003-2004)
• Center for E-Business Vision Fund Grant (2000-2002)
• Industrial Performance Center Grant (Sloan Foundation Subgrant) (1998-2000)
• Center for Innovation in Product Development Grant (NSF Subgrant) (1997-2001)
• State Farm Foundation Fellowship (1996-97)
• John M. Olin Law and Economics Fellowship (1995)
• Bradley Foundation Fellowship (1994-95, 1996)
• Eugena Robles Graduate Fellowship (1992-1994)
• University of California Regents Fellowship (1992-1993) [declined]
• Summa Cum Laude, Undergraduate Thesis, Harvard University (1988)
• Kronfeld Prize in Economics, Harvard University (1988)
• John Harvard Scholarship (1987, 1988)

REVIEWER FOR FOLLOWING JOURNALS

Journal of Political Economy; Journal of Law and Economics; Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization; International Review of Law and Economics; American Political Science Review; American Journal of Political Science; Journal of Politics; Management Science; Industrial and Corporate Change; Managerial and Decision Economics; Journal of Industrial Economics; Journal of Economics and Management Strategy; Journal of Public Economics; California Management Review; Sloan Management Review, Journal of Strategic Management Education.

RECENT PRESENTATIONS

2003
Harvard Business School (2), Harvard University (2), Cornell University (invited), American Law and Economics Association, American Political Science Association, University of Southern California, Vanderbilt University (invited), UCLA (invited).

2002
California Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon, George Mason University, Harvard Law School, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2), National Bureau of Economic Research (3), Northwestern University, Stanford University, University of California (Berkeley), University of Chicago, University of Southern California.

2001
Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California (Berkeley) (3), Georgetown Law School (2), University of Utah, Wharton School of Business, Columbia University, University of Texas, Academy of Management (3), Midwest Political Science Association

2000
Wharton School of Business (2), University of Texas, Federal Communications Commission, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2), Brookings Institution, Telecommunications Policy Research Council (2), Academy of Management (2)

1999
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2), University of California (Berkeley) (2), University of Pennsylvania Law School, Harvard University (2), National Bureau of Economic Research, University of Georgia, Telecommunications Policy Research Council, American Political Science Association (2), American Law and Economics Association

REFERENCES

Daniel Diermeier
IBM Distinguished Professor of Management
Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences
Kellogg School of Management
Northwestern University
2001 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208-2009
Tel: 847-491-5177
Email: d-diermeier@kellogg.northwestern.edu

James M. Snyder, Jr.
Professor of Economics
Arthur Sloan Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science, E53-457
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA 02142
Tel: 617-253-2669
Email: millet@mit.edu

Robert S. Gibbons
Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management
Sloan School of Management E52-552
50 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02142-1347
Tel: 617-253-0283
Email: rgibbons@mit.edu

Richard M. Locke
Arthur Siteman Professor of Entrepreneurship
Professor of Political Science
Sloan School of Management E52-589
50 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02142-1347
Tel: 617-253-2610
Email: rlocke@mit.edu

Steven D. Ansolabehere
Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science, E53-461
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA 02142
Tel: 617-253-5236
Email: sda@mit.edu

Thomas Gilligan
Professor of Finance and Business Economics
University of Southern California
Marshall School of Business
Hoffman Hall – 701
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1427
Tel: 213-740-6531
Email: gilligan@marshall.usc.edu

Oliver E. Williamson
Kaiser Professor of Business Administration
Professor of Economics
Professor of Law
Haas School of Business #1900
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1900
Tel: 510-642-8697
Email: owilliam@haas.berkeley.edu

Additional References Available Upon Request