Current Research

Sloan School of Management: Course 15

Research at the Sloan School relates to effective management of manufacturing and service enterprises, public and urban systems, and health and medical services. Faculty research interests span a wide range of topics, including behavioral science, business strategy, management of technology, industrial relations, international management, applied economics, finance, accounting, marketing, information technology, operations management, and operations research.

Many projects are interdisciplinary and typically involve empirical studies (data collection and analysis), modeling, and developing new methodologies. Students should directly contact faculty working in areas of mutual interest. After a faculty-student relationship has been established, students must write a proposal and submit an online UROP application by the term's submission deadline.

Sloan School faculty profiles can be found at http://sloancf.mit.edu/vpf/d-main.cfm.

Some Related Areas for UROPs:

Center for Collective Intelligence, Center for Information Systems Research, Productivity From Information Technology (PROFIT) project (headed by Madnick), and the Context Interchange (COIN) Project (headed by Madnick & Siegel)

Faculty Research Descriptions

Prof. Josh Ackerman, E62-541, x8-9102, joshack@mit.edu

Nonconscious influences on decision making, evolutionary social psychology, goal pursuit, self-control

Prof. Deborah Ancona, E62-434, x3-0568, ancona@mit.edu

Team management and performance, time and timing in organizations, and leadership.

Prof. Evan Apfelbaum, E62-319, x2-1427, epa1@mit.edu

Diversity; social psychology; teams and groups; stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination.

Prof. Arnold I. Barnett, E62-568, x3-2670, abarnett@mit.edu

Public policy, health and safety, measurement of risk and risk perceptions, applied probability and statistics.

Prof. Dimitris Bertsimas, E40-147, x3-4223, dbertsim@mit.edu

Optimization, stochastic systems, health care, computational finance, and data mining.

Prof. Gabriel Bitran, E62-583, x3-2652, gbitran@mit.edu

Operations management, process optimization, manufacturing systems design, production planning, management of service operations.

Prof. John Carroll, E62-318, x3-2617, jcarroll@mit.edu

Individual and group decision making, leadership, organizational learning, safety management of nuclear power plants, hospital patient safety.

Prof. Emilio J. Castilla, E62-332, x3-0286, ecastilla@mit.edu

My research primarily focuses on the sociological aspects of work and employment. I am particularly interested in examining how individual, social, and organizational processes influence key employee outcomes over time and I typically tackle my research questions by examining different empirical settings with unique longitudinal datasets, at both the individual and organizational level. (For more info, visit http://web.mit.edu/ecastill/www/).

Prof. Alberto Cavallo, E62-512, x5-4837, acavallo@mit.edu

Monetary and international economics.

Prof. Jared Curhan, E62-388, x3-5219, curhan@mit.edu

Negotiation, social psychology, experimental psychology.

Prof. Michael Cusumano, E62-438, x3-2574, cusumano@mit.edu

Study of software and digital platform business models and services innovation.

Prof. Joseph Doyle, E62-515, x3-3761, jjdoyle@mit.edu

My research focuses on questions in health and child-welfare policy. Projects are empirical in nature, where we address policy questions with data and innovative research designs. I meet weekly with UROPs to discuss the underlying economics of the project and gauge our progress.

Prof. Charles H. Fine, E62-466, x3-3632, charley@mit.edu

Strategic sourcing for manufacturing and service industries; supply chain design, especially in the automotive and telecommunications industries.

Prof. Robert M. Freund, E62-567, x3-8997, rfreund@mit.edu

Linear and nonlinear optimization theory and applications, convex analysis, and applied optimization modeling.

Prof. Renee Gosline, E61-539, x2-4303, rgosline@mit.edu

Short research description: Consumer Behavior, Social Status, Social Media, Branding. Methodology: Experiments

Prof. Stephen Graves, E62-579, x3-6602, sgraves@mit.edu

Operations management, manufacturing systems, production planning and scheduling, inventory management.

Prof. Gordon M. Kaufman, E62-581, x3-2651, gkaufman@mit.edu

Statistical decision theory, probability assessment, oil and gas discovery process, energy studies, stochastic modeling of software bugs.

Prof. S.P. Kothari, E60-382, x3-0994, kothari@mit.edu

My research examines informativeness of financial information in capital markets, tests of behavioral finance theories, and corporate uses of derivatives for risk management.

Prof. Donald R. Lessard, E62-460, x3-6688, dlessard@mit.edu

Global strategic management and project management with an emphasis on managing in the face of uncertainty and risk. Global business of clean energy technology.

Prof. Andrew Lo, E62-618, x3-0920, alo@mit.edu

Applying recent advances in probabilistic and statistical methods to rigorous theoretical and empirical investigations of patterns in stock market prices.

Prof. Stuart E. Madnick, E62-422, x3-6671, smadnick@mit.edu

Computer technology in management, integration of multiple information sources, database management systems, applications in financial services and manufacturing.

Prof. Thomas L. Magnanti, 32-G604, x3-6604, magnanti@mit.edu

Optimization of large-scale systems, network and combinational optimization, transportation planning, telecommunications.

Prof. Thomas W. Malone, E62-424, x3-6843, malone@mit.edu

Collective intelligence, future of work, designing new organizations that use information technology, computer-based cooperative work, groupware, coordination theory, business models, process and workflow modeling.

Prof. Fiona Murray, E62-470, x3-3681, fmurray@mit.edu

Management of science-based firms, focus on biotechnology; commercialization of science; entrepreneurship; technology strategy.

Prof. Stewart C. Myers, E62-620, x3-6696, scmyers@mit.edu

Corporate financial policy, modern finance theory applied to government regulation of business, management of financial intermediaries.

Prof. Wanda Orlikowski, E62-418, x3-0443, wanda@mit.edu

Information technology and changes in organizational structures, culture, communication, and work practices; organizational uses of social media.

Prof. James B. Orlin, E62-570, x3-6606, jorlin@mit.edu

Optimization methodology and applications. I am also interested in the development of innovative teaching materials for undergraduate courses in optimization.

Prof. Georgia Perakis, E62-565, x3-8277, georgiap@mit.edu

Applications of dynamic and continuous optimization in revenue management, dynamic pricing, internet auctions, supply chain and transportation problems.

Prof. Robert S. Pindyck, E62-522, x3-6641, rpindyck@mit.edu

Applied microeconomics and industrial organization, environmental economics, uncertainty and climate change policy, economic implications of potential catastrophic events, energy and natural resource markets, futures and commodity markets.

Prof. Drazen Prelec, E62-540, x3-2833, dprelec@mit.edu

Individual decision making (especially apparent irrationalities), choices, preferences, risk, impatience, consumer misbehavior.

Prof. Roberto Rigobon, E62-515, x8-8374, rigobon@mit.edu

International economics, monetary economics, and financial economics.

Prof. Antoinette Schoar, E62-638, x3-3763, aschoar@mit.edu

Corporate finance, entrepreneurial finance, venture capital.

Prof. Andreas S. Schulz, E62-569, x8-7340, schulz@mit.edu

Approximation and online algorithms, combinatorial and integer optimization, algorithmic game theory, scheduling theory and algorithms.

Prof. Ofer Sharone, E62-340, x3-7483, osharone@mit.edu

I am currently exploring how workers make use of new social media and social networking technologies to navigate their careers, and the effects of these technologies on work identities and career outcomes.  My research is qualitative and uses in-depth interviews and observations. It often involves cross-national or cross-class comparisons.

Prof. John Sterman, E62-436, x3-1951, jsterman@mit.edu

Systems dynamics, computer simulation of corporate and economic systems, laboratory experiments with dynamic decision-making, development of "flight simulators" for management.

Prof. Eric A. von Hippel, E62-464, x3-7155, evhippel@mit.edu

User's role in product innovation, including product development, and in innovation networks, e.g., open source software.

Prof. Joseph P. Weber, E62-666, x3-4310, jpweber@mit.edu

Accounting and finance issues that pertain to capital markets, IPO's, auditors, financial analysts, and fixed income securities (public and private debt).

Prof. Roy E. Welsch, E62-564, x3-6601, rwelsch@mit.edu

Statistical models, data mining, statistical finance, regression diagnostics, graphics and visualization of data, quality control, experimental design, and statistical computing.

Prof. Yanchong Karen Zheng, E62-578, x3-4512, yanchong@mit.edu

Behavioral operations research, impact of consumer bounded rationality on revenue management, environmental issues in operations management, experimental economics.