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WTO’s students are involved in both the design and execution of WTO’s research and they also serve as Teaching Assistants in WTO-related courses. Student backgrounds are diverse, ranging from computer science and product design to religious studies and politics.
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Daisy Chung
Email: dechung [at] stanford [dot] edu
Webpage: N/A
Advisor: Diane Bailey & Steve Barley
Daisy is interested in exploring the institutional factors that affect technology adoption, with a focus on clean technologies in the automotive industry. She is primarily concerned with the phenomenon of front running within industries, and its implications for changing organizational aims and norms. Daisy also researches engineering work, and has spent time collecting data in the Detroit and Bangalore offices of an international automotive company. Daisy earned a B.A. in Science, Technology, and Society from Stanford University. She has also conducted research on the history of wind energy innovation at the Technical University in Berlin.
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Yosem Companys
Email: companys [at] Stanford [dot] edu
Webpage: N/A
Advisor: Steve Barley
Yosem Companys conducts research at the intersection of technology, organizations, and politics. Currently, Yosem is writing his dissertation, which is a historical ethnography on the development and professionalization of the Netroots Movement. In addition, Yosem is studying how the status characteristics of commenters' on YouTube influence voter attitudes toward candidates. In 2007, the Social Science Research Network selected one of his papers entitled "Strategic Entrepreneurs at Work" (with Jeff McMullen) as a Top Ten Paper in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. More recently, the Academy of Management selected his paper entitled "Bridging the Gap" (with Carlos Rodriguez-Lluesma) as a 2009 Best Paper.
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Thomas Haymore
Email: thaymore [at] stanford [dot] edu
Webpage: N/A
Advisor: Steve Barley
Thomas is interested in the intersection of law and organizations, with a particular emphasis on how legal compliance is structured and how organizations interact with their regulatory environment. Thomas is also finishing up his J.D. at Stanford Law School. Prior to coming to Stanford, he received his B.A. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania. Thomas has worked in variety of positions, including web programming and non-profit work.
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Issac Lim
Email: issaclim [at] stanford [dot] edu
Webpage: http://www.stanford.edu/~issaclim
Advisor: Diane Bailey
Issac is fascinated with the concepts of time and work. He endeavors to discover and understand the different dimensions of time in the world of organizations. He believes that the structural and the phenomenological aspects of time are inextricably linked in affecting the social world. Additionally, he is curious about the relationship between the nature of work and organizational conflicts, and wonders if the susceptibility to conflicts in some industries is related to the way work is organized within them. Prior to Stanford, he completed his undergraduate and masters education in the National University of Singapore. He likes archives, fonts, and children (not in any order of preference).
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Lei Liu
Email: liulei [at] stanford [dot] edu
Webpage: N/A
Advisor: Pamela Hinds
Lei is interested in the relationship between technological change and organizational behavior/structure, and the implications of such relationship for organizational management. With a background in information management, he is also interested in the searching, storing, sharing, and using of work-related information in organizations. Prior to joining WTO for doctoral studies, Lei received his B.S. in Management from Beijing (Peking) University.
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Joachim B. Lyon
Email: jblyon [at] stanford [dot] edu
Webpage: N/A
Advisor: Pam Hinds
Joachim is interested in team and small-group level cognition, problem solving, and work practice. His current research focuses on how creative design work is conducted at the intersection of different organizational, occupational, and national contexts. Joachim has conducted research with the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) and with the Interactive Cognition Laboratory, both at the University of California, San Diego. He holds a BA in Cognitive Science from UC San Diego, and an MSc in Philosophy (specialization in mind and cognition) from the University of Edinburgh. Prior to coming to Stanford, he also spent a year studying Mandarin at Peking University, China.
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Dan Morales
Email: moralesd [at] stanford [dot] edu
Webpage: N/A
Advisor: Steve Barley
Dan is interested in the power of organized interest groups to shape their environment and influence the defense systems acquisition and contracting processes of the federal government. In addition, he is interested in the privatization of government functions and the resulting effect on military and defense-related capabilities and readiness. Dan holds a BS in Astronautical Engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy and an MS in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT. Prior to pursuing doctoral studies at Stanford, Dan served in the U.S. Air Force, separating at the rank of Captain.
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Kurt Sandholtz
Email: kws [at] stanford [dot] edu
Webpage: N/A
Advisor: Diane Bailey & Steve Barley
Kurt's research examines the processes through which illegitimacy can become institutionalized in an occupation, with human resource management as an illustrative case. Additional interests include the standardization of knowledge work, and the microfoundations of organizational and institutional genesis. Kurt holds a Masters in Organizational Behavior from Brigham Young University. He is co-author of two books: Beyond Juggling: Rebalancing Your Busy Life (Berrett- Koehler, 2002) and HR Competencies: Mastery at the Intersection of People and Business (Society for Human Resource Management, 2008).
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Isaac Waisberg
Email: waisberg [at] stanford [dot] edu
Webpage: N/A
Advisor: Steve Barley
Isaac is interested in management consulting and the nature of advice. These are some of the questions that puzzle him: Why people seek advice? What constitutes good advice? What advisers do and how they go about doing it? How advisers build and sustain their relationships with clients? And: How do people take the advice they are given? Isaac holds a B.Sc. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Israel Institute of Technology, Technion, and a M.Sc. in Organizational and Social Psychology from the London School of Economics. Prior to pursuing doctoral studies, Isaac worked as a training and development consultant for IBM and Creo (Kodak).
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Dana Wang
Email: dxwang [at] stanford [dot] edu
Webpage: http://danaxwang.googlepages.com/dana'shomepage
Advisor: Steve Barley
Dana's dissertation is on the social construction of patents. She examines how participants create and use intellectual property in different social worlds. Her research offers an interdisciplinary approach to patents as social artifacts, information systems, objects, and organizational resources. Her research addresses questions fundamental to organization and management studies: what is an invention; what is a resource; what is knowledge; and why is meaning misaligned between different communities. Her research interests include interorganizational groups; resource management under uncertainty; intellectual property management; behavioral understanding of information systems; information compliance; and information hubs, gatekeepers and intermediaries. Prior to joining the WTO, she worked in various business capacities: transferring technologies from academia to the private sector, analyst in corporate venture at a utility company, strategic marketing at a MEMS startup, and technical analysis on Wall Street. She has worked, lived, and traveled in Asia for three years. Dana received a B.A. in Chemistry
from Oberlin. College and an MBA from the University of Michigan, where she was a member of Wolverine Venture Fund.
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Jia (Carol) Xu
Email: carolxu [at] stanford [dot] edu
Webpage: N/A
Advisor: Pam Hinds
Jia (Carol) Xu is broadly interested in sociology of technology and work. One of her many ideas is to incorporate micro-level human interaction processes into macro-level sociological theories of technology and work in order to understand the nuances of technology formation and its effects on social everyday life. Workplace behaviors and interaction serve as a great observational field for her exploration. In addition, she also has interests in philosophy, dance, and self-taught painting.
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