Vaughn Tan
Graduate Student in Organizational Behavior / Sociology
Biographical Note
Vaughn is interested in information dissemination and search in diffuse systems. In particular, 1) characterising how individuals and groups assign value to ideas that circulate among them; 2) understanding how disinterested action conditions influence in networks; 3) developing network structures that reduce the acquisition cost of metadata; and 4) two-part value creation. Areas of particular empirical interest are art, craft, gastronomy, standards-creating coalitions, technology adoption, and intellectual property exchange.
Before returning to Harvard, he worked at Google on ads, Google Maps and Earth, lunar exploration projects, and genomics, and as a technology advisor to the EO Wilson Foundation's Encyclopedia of Life initiative. He pretends to be a furniture-maker and sculptor in wood and was, for a time, a poorly-paid but quite happy teaching assistant at the Anderson Ranch Arts Foundation.
11/16/2008
- Research Interests
- The organization of loose groups, two-part value creation, metadata dissemination, implicit organizational structures, the organization of art, authenticated anonymity, self-organizing systems.
- Previous Degrees
- AB, Social Studies; Harvard 2005
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