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Christopher Marquis

Assistant Professor of
Organizational Behavior
(Harvard Business School)

Biographical Note

Chris Marquis is an Assistant Professor in the Organizational Behavior unit at the Harvard Business School. He currently teaches Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD) in the MBA curriculum. During the spring 2010 term he will be teaching a graduate seminar on Organizational Analysis in the Sociology Department.

Professor Marquis’ research focuses on how firm behavior is historically contingent and how environmental conditions during founding periods leave a lasting imprint on organizations. He has examined the effects of these processes in the context of community-based social networks and in the history of twentieth-century U.S. banking. In a second line of research, Marquis studies how businesses influence the growth of non-profit organizations and volunteering behavior in US communities. Professor Marquis’ research has won a number of national awards including the 2006 William H. Newman and Louis R. Pondy Awards from the Academy of Management, 2003 James D. Thompson Award from the American Sociological Association and the 2005 State Farm Doctoral Dissertation Award. He was a finalist in the 2004 INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition. At the University of Michigan, where he did his Ph.D., Marquis won the best gradutate student paper award from the Sociology department and was Honorable Mention in a university-wide competition for best dissertation completed in 2005. Professor Marquis has published or has articles forthcoming in Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, Journal of Management Inquiry, Organization Science, and Social Networks as well as a number of edited collections. Copies of many of his papers can be found on his website.

Professor Marquis received a BA in History from Notre Dame, MA in History and MBA in Finance from Pitt, and MA and PhD in Sociology from Michigan. Prior to his academic career, he worked for 6 years in the financial services industry, most recently as Vice President and Technology Manager for a business unit of Bank One Corporation (now J.P. Morgan Chase).

12/07/2009

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