Toby E. Stuart
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Toby E. Stuart is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.
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Social Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs
| Authors: | Pierre Azoulay, Christopher C. Liu, and Toby E. Stuart |
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| Published: | June 11, 2009 |
| Paper Release Date: | May 2009 |
| Feature: | Working Papers |
How do people select partners for relationships? Most relationships arise from a matching process in which individuals pair on a limited number of high-priority dimensions. Although people often match on just a few attributes, it may be that some set of additional characteristics, which was not considered when a choice was made to develop the relationship, results in the social transmission of attitudes and behaviors. For this reason, social matching is only "partially" deliberate. HBS professor Toby Stuart and coauthors observe this phenomenon in an analysis of the origins and consequences of the matching of postdoctoral biomedical scientists to their faculty advisers. This work shows the imprints of postdoctoral advisers on the subsequent choices of the scientists-in-training who travel through their laboratories. The researchers' findings contribute to a burgeoning literature on the interface between academic and commercial science.
Published in 2008
The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies
| Q&A with: | Toby E. Stuart |
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| Published: | September 22, 2008 |
| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
A new Harvard Business School working paper looks inside the communications "black box" of a large company to understand who talks to whom, and finds the corporate silo as impenetrable as ever. Q&A with professor Toby E. Stuart.
Communication (and Coordination?) in a Modern, Complex Organization
| Authors: | Adam M. Kleinbaum, Toby E. Stuart, and Michael L. Tushman |
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| Published: | July 31, 2008 |
| Paper Release Date: | July 2008 |
| Feature: | Working Papers |
Coordination, and the communication it implies, is central to the very existence of organizations. Despite their fundamental role in the purpose of organizations, scholars have little understanding of actual interaction patterns in modern, complex, multiunit firms. To open the proverbial "black box" and begin to reveal the internal wiring of the firm, this paper presents a detailed, descriptive analysis of the network of communications among members of a large, structurally, functionally, geographically, and strategically diverse firm. The full data set comprises more than 100 million electronic mail messages and over 60 million electronic calendar entries for a sample of more 30,000 employees over a three-month period in 2006.
Published in 2006
The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks
| Published: | December 4, 2006 |
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| Feature: | Research & Ideas |
Venture capital firms often consider investments in companies located far away or in unfamiliar industries. How do they spot these opportunities and also reduce risk? It's the power of networks, says Harvard Business School professor Toby Stuart—and understanding how they work in VC is just now starting to be understood.
