My teaching philosophy is simple: give my students frameworks to make the invisible, visible. My goal is to help my students make sense of complex business phenomena using models and ideas from economics, sociology, and other disciplines. The power of knowledge comes from our ability to see structure in what seems to be a messy, often confusing, world. Those who can see and reason clearly—act decisively.
Frameworks and models (especially in business) aren’t truth; they are ways of seeing the world. That is why I teach ideas from different fields: so we can see the same phenomena with different eyes, each revealing something new.
My strong belief is that rigorous, conceptual thinking will be the edge in a world dominated by Artificial Delegated Intelligence.
MBA and Master’s Teaching
My primary focus is teaching MBA students (both Daytime MBA and Executive MBA) Strategy Implementation.
Doctoral Teaching
Executive Teaching
Recent Ph.D. Syllabi
Topics in Strategic Management (Spring 2019)
High Technology Entrepreneurship (Spring 2021)
Older Ph.D. Syllabi (from Stanford GSB)
Topics in Social Network Analysis
Organizations and Environments