The School of Management (SOM) will welcome three experts on organizational behavior and another on marketing next year, according to Dean Joel M. Podolny.
James N. Baron, currently the Walter Kenneth Kilpatrick Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, will join the SOM faculty effective July 1. Two other Stanford organizational behavior scholars, Professors Deborah H. Gruenfeld and James A. Phills Jr., will join the school's faculty as visiting professors for the 2006-2007 academic year. In addition, Joseph P. Simmons, a scholar from Princeton University, will join the faculty as assistant professor of marketing.
James N. Baron
Over an academic career spanning more than two decades, Baron's wide-ranging research interests have included human resources; organizational design and behavior; social stratification and inequality; work, labor markets and careers; economic sociology; and entrepreneurial companies. At Stanford, he has taught the M.B.A. core course, "Human Resource Management," since 1996.
He was co-director of the Stanford Project on Emerging Companies, a large-scale longitudinal study of the organizational design, human resource management practices, and financial and non-financial performance measures of entrepreneurial firms in Silicon Valley. Papers based on the project appeared in leading disciplinary journals, and an overview of the project in California Management Review won the 2003 Accenture Award for making "the most important contribution to improving the practice of management."
Baron is the author, with Stanford economist David M. Kreps, of the textbook "Strategic Human Resources: Frameworks for General Managers." He is also a regular contributor to leading sociology and organization journals, such as the American Sociological Review and Administrative Science Quarterly. He holds three sociology degrees: a B.A. (1976) from Reed College; an M.S. (1977) from the University of Wisconsin; and a Ph.D. (1982) from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
"Throughout his career, Jim Baron has demonstrated a commitment to the highest standards of research and teaching," said Podolny. "Indeed, I can think of no organizational scholar who has sustained higher standards on both dimensions. I am delighted that he is coming to Yale. Not only does it constitute a major leap forward in the rebuilding of organizational behavior at SOM; it also contributes to and reinforces the school's broader momentum around our curriculum reform efforts and the planning for a new campus."
Baron said of his decision to join the Yale faculty: "The mission of SOM is compelling and appealing to me. As a colleague of Joel Podolny when he was at Stanford, I know he shares my view that business schools need to be not just about economic imperatives but also about society."
Deborah H. Gruenfeld and James A. Phills
Gruenfeld, who will be visiting professor of organizational behavior at SOM, is professor of organizational behavior and the Morgan Stanley Director of the Center for Leadership Development and Research at Stanford. She has published in leading organization and psychology journals. Her current research examines the psychology of power, and she has also studied the determinants of effective decision-making in groups. She has, for example, explored how group composition affects information sharing, and how majority and minority status within a group impacts on the complexity of reasoning.
Phills is the Claude N. Rosenberg Jr. Director of Stanford's Center for Social Innovation and associate professor (teaching) of organizational behavior. At SOM, he will be visiting associate professor in the practice of organizational behavior. He is currently director of several executive programs focused on the leaders of non-profit and philanthropic organizations, and his research is aimed toward enhancing the effectiveness of non-profit and public sector organizations, and improving learning and change at group, organizational and societal levels. He is the author of "Integrating Mission and Strategy for Nonprofit Organizations." Phills previously served on the SOM faculty 1994-1999.
Joseph P. Simmons
Simmons, who comes to Yale as an assistant professor of marketing next year, focuses his research in the area of behavioral decision-making and problems in consumer choice. He has published articles in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and Psychological Science. Simmons holds a B.S. (1999) from Mount Saint Mary's College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology (2001 and 2004) from Princeton University. He has been a postdoctoral research associate at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs for the last two years.
T H I S
W E E K ' SS T O R I E S
Scientists identify new genus of monkey; first in 83 years
Divinity Dean reappointed to second term
Yale to celebrate 305th Commencement
Student photographs 'hidden beauty in everyday life'
Summertime at Yale
Brownell cited as one of world's '100 most influential people'
President Levin honored for increasing town-gown partnerships
ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIPS
David Bromwich appointed Sterling Professor of English
David Louis Quint named Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature
Brown-Dean is appointed Peter Strauss Family Assistant Professor
Four individuals will bring their expertise . . . to SOM
Two noted violinists . . . join the faculty of the School of Music
Three residential college masters named to second term
Laura Cruickshank named to post of University planner
Exhibit features English silver pieces once owned by tsars
Exhibits look back at 40 years of chiming bells and more
Major renovation effort begins at Cross Campus Librar
MEDICAL SCHOOL NEWS
Study confirms usefulness of naltrexone . . .
Treatment preferences for end-of-life care change with time . . .
Research shows medication may delay onset of psychosis
Claus will study genetics of breast cancer with Komen Foundation grant
Eight graduating seniors are bound for China as teaching fellows
IN MEMORIAM
Albert J. Reiss Jr., work led to reforms in policing
Dr. Norman Siegel, a world-renowned specialist on kidney disease . . .
Jaroslav Pelikan, noted scholar of Christianity, dies
Memorial service for William Sloan Coffin to be held May 27
Yale's nurse-midwives celebrate 50 years of community care
Talk will focus on life extension and human right
'Keepers of the Dream' to look at advancing urban education
Sociologist Adams honored for book on 'The Familial State'
Association honors Yale-affiliated scientists and engineers . . .
Journal of Industrial Ecology marks two milestones . . .
Grant will fund research on how human speech is shaped
'Trouble in Tahiti' to be performed during School of Music alumni weekend
Campaign invites community to 'Plant a Row for the Hungry'
Campus Notes
Bulletin Home|Visiting on Campus|Calendar of Events|In the News
Bulletin Board|Classified Ads|Search Archives|Deadlines
Bulletin Staff|Public Affairs|News Releases|
E-Mail Us|Yale Home