Ph.D. Graduates (1989 - Present)



Name Committee Current Position Dissertation Title and Year
Laurel C. Austin Baruch Fischhoff
Robyn Dawes
Paul Fischbeck

Independent Consultant
Cambridge, MA

Consumers' Insurance Decisions: An Empirical Study of Four Real World Decisions (1996)
Robert D. Austin

Patrick Larkey
Robyn Dawes
Jay Kadane
Steven Klepper

Associate Professor of Business Administration Harvard University
Cambridge, MA

(on leave) — Director of Operations for division of Novell)

Theories of Measurement and Dysfunction in Organizations (1994) - Simon Award
Dean Behrens Kathleen Carley
David Krackhardt
Sara Kiesler
Assistant Professor of Sociology
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Self-Isolation and the Structuring of Support: The Relationship Between Stress and Network Evolution (1997)
Wandi Bruine de Bruin Baruch Fischhoff
Peter Ayton
Robyn M. Dawes
Paul S. Fischbeck
Post-doctoral Associate
Dept. of Social & Decision Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University
People’s Understanding of Probability: "It’s a Fifty-Fifty Chance" (1998)
Carter T. Butts

Kathleen M. Carley
David Krackhardt
Shelby Stewman

Assistant Professor of Mathematical and Beh. Science
University of California-Irvine, CA

Spatial Models of Large-Scale Interpersonal Networks (2002)
Stephanie Byram* Baruch Fischhoff
Robyn Dawes
Bobby Klatzky
Previous Employment: Post doctoral Research Associate
Psychology Department
Carnegie Mellon University

 

Breast Cancer and Mammogram Screening: Mental Models and Quantitative Assessments of Beliefs (1998)
Tiziana Casciaro Kathleen Carley
David Krackhardt
William McEvily
Assistant Professor
Harvard Business School
Cambridge, MA
The Formation of Strategic Alliance Networks (1999)
Jonathon N. Cummings

Robert Kraut
Sara Kiesler
David Krackhardt
Deborah Ancona-MIT

Assistant Professor of Management
Sloan School of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA

Work Groups and Knowledge Sharing in a Global Organization (2001)
Tom Finholt Sara Kiesler
Lee Sproull
Baruch Fischhoff
Mark Kamlet
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology and Assistant Research Scientist, School of Information
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
Outsiders on the Inside: Sharing Information through a Computer Archive (1993)
Shane Frederick

George Loewenstein
Baruch Fischhoff
Teddy Seidenfeld

Assistant Professor
School of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA

Discounting, Time Preference, and Identity (1999)
Diana Gant Kathleen Carley
David Krackhardt
John Prescott

Assistant Professor
School of Information Studies
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY
(7/2004-Washington DC1-year assignment-Program Director in the Division of Undergraduate Education at NSF; directing the Scholarships for Serivce: Cyberworkforce Programs)

The Web of Affiliation: Theoretical Motives for the Strategic Establishment of Inter-organizational Relationships on the World Wide Web (1998)
Eric Gold Robyn Dawes
Baruch Fischhoff
Paul Fischbeck
Software Design Consultant
Gold Objects, Inc.
Seattle, Washington
The Gambler's Fallacy (1997)

 

William E. Hefley

 

Douglas Wholey
Bill Curtis
Sara Kiesler
Indira Nair
Associate Teaching Professor
Carnegie Mellon University
(ISRI) Institute for Software Research International
Pittsburgh, PA

 

Influence in Work Groups: A Study of Software Development Teams (1998)
Pamela Hinds Sara Kiesler
David Krackhardt
Robert Kraut

Assistant Professor--Dept. of Management & Engineering
Stanford University
Palo Alto, CA

Communication, Cognitive Overload, and Social Judgment: A Study of How Impressions Become More Biased Over Cognitively Taxing Media (1997)
Eleanor T. Leweis

Kathleen M. Carley
William McEvily
Barbara Johnstone

Rockefeller Post Doctoral Fellow
Darmouth College-Sociology Department
Hanover, NH

The Impact of the Speaker and Audience on Isomorphism in Written Organizational Accounts (2002) - Simon Award

Diane Lowenthal Otto Davis
Richard Smith
George Loewenstein
Assistant Professor of Political Science
American University
Washington, DC
What Voters Care About: How Electoral Context Influences Issue Salience in Campaigns (1996)
Andrew Parker Baruch Fischhoff
Paul Fischbeck
Ralph Tarter
Assistant Professor
Virginia Tech — Pamplin College of Business
Blacksburg, VA
An Individual Differences Measure of Decision-Making Competence (2000)
Yuqing Ren

Kathleen Carley

 

Strategies of Team Members Selection in a Project-Based Organization (2004)
Ken Simons Steven Klepper
David Hounshell
Wes Cohen
Associate Professor of Economics
University of London
London, UK
Shakeouts: Firm Survival and Technological Change in New Manufacturing Industries (1995)
Uri Simonsohn

George Loewenstein
Linda Babcock
Steven Klepper

Assistant Professor
Department of Operations & Information Management
Wharton School, University of Pennsyvania
Philadelphia, PA

New Yorkers Commute More Everywhere: The Effect of Previously Observed commutes on Trvel Demand (2003)
Gavin Sinclair*

Steven Klepper
Wes Cohen
David Hounshell

Previous Employment: Assistant Professor Organizational Leadership, Agricultural Economics, and Chemical Engineering
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
Learning and Progressive Cost Reduction in a Specialty Chemicals Business Unit (1994)
Sally Sleeper Steven Klepper
David Hounshell
Linda Argote
Policy Researcher
Rand
Pittsburgh, PA
The Role of Firm Capabilities in the Evolution of the Laser Industry: The Making of a High-Tech Market (1998) - Simon Award
Mei Wang

Paul S. Fischbeck
Baruch Fischhoff
Michael L. DeKay
Chyongchiou Jeng Lin (Univ. of Pittsburgh)

Post-Doctoral Fellow
University of Mannheim
Mannheim, Germany

Prospect Theory, Framing, and Risk Preferences: A U.S.-China Comparison (2003)
Ofer Zellerrmayer George Lowenstein
Robyn Dawes
Paul Fischbeck
Baruch Fischhoff
Assistant Professor
The Interdisciplinary Center
Herzlia, Israel
The Pain of Paying (1996)
Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher

Robyn Dawes
Baruch Fischhoff
Mark Kamlet

HSR&D Post-Doctoral Fellow
Program for Improving Health Care Decisions
The Ann Arbor VA Medical Center & University of Michigan
Continue or Quit Decisions in Sequential Trial Situations (2002)
David Zubrow Rick Lau
Margaret Clark
Robyn Dawes
Steven Klepper
Senior Technical Staff Member
Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Gender Differences in Learning to Use Computers (1989)
*Deceased      




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