James N. Baron, a scholar of organizations and human resources management, will join the Yale faculty on July 1 as the William S. Beinecke Professor of Management. Baron comes to the School of Management from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he has been the Walter Kenneth Kilpatrick Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources since 1992, and was the associate dean for academic affairs 1994-1997 and the director of research and curriculum development 1996-1997. He has been at Stanford since 1982, when he joined the faculty as an assistant professor of organizational behavior and assistant professor of sociology. Baron's wide-ranging research interests have included human resources, organizational design and behavior, social stratification and inequality, work, labor markets, careers, economic sociology and entrepreneurial companies. He is the author, with Stanford economist David M. Kreps, of the textbook "Strategic Human Resources: Frameworks for General Managers," and a co-editor of "Social Differentiation and Inequality: Essays in Honor of John Pock" and "Process and Outcome: Perspectives on the Distribution of Rewards in Organizations." He has also written numerous articles, book chapters and commentaries. At Stanford, Baron 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 was also a co-director of Stanford's GLOBE Initiative and its Human Resources Initiative. A 1976 graduate of Reed College, Baron earned his M.S. from the University of Wisconsin in 1977 and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1982. He was a Marvin Bower Fellow at the Harvard Business School 1997-1998 and was a visiting scholar at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2001. Selected by the Institute for Scientific Information as one of the most "Highly Cited Researchers," Baron has received a number of other honors. In 2001 and 2002 he was awarded the MBA Distinguished Teaching Award Letter of Commendation at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was also honored with several named fellowships. He has been a Distinguished Research Visitor at the National University of Singapore and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. In 1985, he received the European Group on Organizational Sociology Prize for significant contributions to the field of organizations by a junior scholar. He is an elected member of the Sociological Research Association and the Macro Organizational Behavior Society.
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