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Pierre Azoulay is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management and an Associate Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Azoulay teaches courses on strategy and technology strategy at MIT Sloan. Previously, he was an associate professor of management at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. His research centers on how organizational design and social networks influence the productivity of research and development in the healthcare sector. Currently, Azoulay is studying the impact of superstar researchers on the research productivity of their colleagues in the academic life sciences. He also is interested in the topic of academic entrepreneurship, having recently concluded a major study of the antecedents and consequences of academic patenting. In the past, he has investigated the outsourcing strategies of pharmaceutical firms, in particular the role played by contract research organizations in the clinical trials process. He is a faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.Azoulay holds a Diplôme D’études Supérieures de Gestion from the Institut National des Télécommunications, an MA in telecommunications from Michigan State University, and a PhD in management from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Pierre Azoulay is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management and an Associate Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Azoulay teaches courses on strategy and technology strategy at MIT Sloan. Previously, he was an associate professor of management at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. His research centers on how organizational design and social networks influence the productivity of research and development in the healthcare sector. Currently, Azoulay is studying the impact of superstar researchers on the research productivity of their colleagues in the academic life sciences. He also is interested in the topic of academic entrepreneurship, having recently concluded a major study of the antecedents and consequences of academic patenting. In the past, he has investigated the outsourcing strategies of pharmaceutical firms, in particular the role played by contract research organizations in the clinical trials process. He is a faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.Azoulay holds a Diplôme D’études Supérieures de Gestion from the Institut National des Télécommunications, an MA in telecommunications from Michigan State University, and a PhD in management from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
| Current Institution | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Current School | MIT Sloan School of Management |
| Department | Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management |
| Disciplines | |
| Address | 77 Massachusetts Avenue, E62-482 Cambridge Massachusetts United States Phone: (617) 258-9766 |
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Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D ,
Management
(2001)
Michigan State University
M.A,
Telecommunications
(1994)
Work Experience
Associate Professor
MIT Sloan School of Management
(2011 - Present)
Zenon S. Zannetos (1955) Career Development Associate Professor
MIT Sloan School of Management
(2009 - 2011)
Achievements
- National Science Foundation (co-PI) $250K (2007 - 2009)
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Publication Summary
Publications
- The Diffusion of Scientific Knowledge Across Time and Space: Evidence from Professional Transitions for the Superstars of Medicine (with Joshua Graff Zivin and Bhaven Sampat). Chapter 2 in The Rate & Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited (edited by Joshua Lerner and Scott Stern), pp. 107-155, 2012. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Also NBER Working Paper #16683.
- Incentives and Creativity: Evidence from the Academic Life Sciences. RAND Journal of Economics, 42(3), pp. 527-554, 2011 (with Gustavo Manso and Joshua Graff Zivin). Also NBER Working Paper #15466.
- Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Embeddedness Failure in the Pharmaceutical Industry. Administrative Science Quarterly, 55(3), pp. 472-507, 2010 (with Nelson Repenning and Ezra Zuckerman). [On-line Appendix]
- Superstar Extinction. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 125(2), pp. 549-589, 2010 (with Joshua Graff Zivin and Jialan Wang). Also NBER Working Paper #14577 [see also blurb in Science].
- The Effect of Academic Patenting on the Rate, Quality, and Direction of (Public) Research Output. Journal of Industrial Economics, 57(4), pp. 637-676, 2009 (with Waverly Ding and Toby Stuart). Also NBER Working Paper #11917 [Slides].
- The Anatomy of Medical School Patenting. New England Journal of Medicine, 357(20), pp. 2049-2056, 2007 (with Ryan Michigan and Bhaven Sampat).
- The Determinants of Faculty Patenting Behavior: Demographics or Opportunities? Journal of Economic Behavior & Organizations, 63(4), pp. 599-623, 2007 (with Waverly Ding and Toby Stuart).
- PublicationHarvester: An Open-Source Software Tool for Science Policy Research. Research Policy, 35(7), pp. 970-974, 2006 (with Andrew Stellman and Joshua Graff Zivin).
- Capturing Knowledge Within and Across Firm Boundaries: Evidence from Clinical Development. American Economic Review, 94(5), pp. 1591-1612, 2004.
- Consumption Externalities and Diffusion in Pharmaceutical Markets: Anti-Ulcer Drugs. Journal of Industrial Economics, 51(2), pp. 243-270, 2003 (with Ernst Berndt and Robert Pindyck)
- Do Pharmaceutical Sales Respond to Scientific Evidence? Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 11(4), pp. 551-594, 2002.
- Entrepreneurs, Contracts, and the Failure of Young Firms. Management Science, 47(3), pp. 337-358, 2001 (with Scott Shane).
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