Matthew S. Bothner Address ESMT European School of Phone: +49 (0) 30 212 31-1541 Management and Technology Fax: -1281 Schlossplatz 1 Email: matthew.bothner@esmt.org 10178 Berlin www.esmt.org Germany Current Employment Acting Director of PhD Studies, 2015 present Professor of Strategy and Deutsche Telekom Chair in Leadership and HR Development, European School of Management and Technology, 2011 present Fellow, Center for the Study of Economy and Society, Cornell University, 2011-present Education PhD, Department of Sociology, Columbia University, 2000 MA, MPhil, Department of Sociology, Columbia University, 1998 BA, Sociology and American History, University Professors Program, Boston University, 1994 Past Academic Experience Visiting Professor of Organizations and Strategy, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, 2012-13 Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology, Cornell University, 2010-11 Fellow, Center for the Study of Economy and Society, Cornell University, 2010-11 Associate Professor of Organizations and Strategy, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, 2004-10 Assistant Professor of Organizations and Strategy, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, 2000-04 Service and institution-building Member, ESMT Research Evaluation Committee, 2013 Refereed Publications Askin, N., and M. Bothner. Forthcoming. Status-aspirational Pricing: The "Chivas Regal" Strategy in U.S. Higher Education, 2006-2012. Administrative Science Quarterly Bothner, M. S., Y. K. Kim, and W. Lee. 2015. Primary Status, Complementary Status, and Organizational Survival in the U.S. Venture Capital Industry. Social Science Research, 52: 588-601. Bothner, M. S., Y. K. Kim, and E. B. Smith. 2012. How Does Status Affect Performance? Status as an Asset vs. Status as a Liability in the PGA and NASCAR. Organization Science, Special Issue on Attaining, Maintaining, and Experiencing Status in Organizations and Markets, 23: 416-433. Bothner, M. S., J. M. Podolny, and E. B. Smith. 2011. Organizing Contests for Status: The Matthew Effect vs. the Mark Effect. Management Science 57: 439-457 (summarized in Best Paper Proceedings of the 2009 Academy of Management Meeting). Bothner, M. S., E. B. Smith, and H. C. White. 2010. A Model of Robust Positions in Social Networks. American Journal of Sociology 116: 943 992.
Bothner, M. S., R. Haynes, W. Lee and E. B. Smith. 2010. When do Matthew Effects Occur? Journal of Mathematical Sociology 34: 80-114. Hartmann W. R., P. Manchanda, H. Nair, M. S. Bothner, P. Dodds, D. Godes, K. Hosanagar, and C. Tucker. 2008. Modeling Social Interactions: Identification, Empirical Methods and Policy Implications. Marketing Letters 19: 287-304. Bothner, M. S., J. H. Kang, and T. E. Stuart. 2007. Competitive Crowding and Risk Taking in a Tournament: Evidence from NASCAR Racing. Administrative Science Quarterly 52: 208-247. Bothner, M. S. 2005. Relative Size and Firm Growth in the Global Computer Industry. Industrial and Corporate Change 14: 617-638 (Awarded Louis R. Pondy Award and Newman Award by the Academy of Management). Bothner, M. S., T. E. Stuart, and H. C. White. 2004. Status Differentiation and the Cohesion of Social Networks. Journal of Mathematical Sociology 28: 261-295. Bothner, M. S. 2003. Competition and Social Influence: The Diffusion of the Sixth Generation Processor in the Global Computer Industry. American Journal of Sociology 6: 1175-1210 (lead article). Bothner, M. S. and H. C. White. 2001. Market Orientation and Monopoly Power. Pp. 182-208 in Dynamics of Organizations: Computational Modeling and Organization Theories, edited by Alessandro Lomi and Erik Larsen. AAIA Press. Other Publications Bothner, M.S. and H. Piezunka. 2015. Mihnea C. Moldoveanu and Joel A. C. Baum: Epinets: The Epistemic Structure and Dynamics of Social Networks. Administrative Science Quarterly 60: NP54-NP56. Bothner, M.S. 2012. Usain Bolt and the Peril When Your Status Rises Too High. Forbes.com, July 26, 2012. Working Papers Askin, N. S. and. S. Bothner. 2012. Peer Effects in Tournaments for Status: Evidence from Rank Dynamics of U.S. Colleges and Universities. Bothner, M. S., F. Godart, and W. Lee. 2010. What is Social Status? Comparisons and Contrasts with Cognate Concepts. revise and resubmit at Industrial and Corporate Change. Bothner, M. S., J. H. Kang, and W. Lee. 2008. Status Volatility and Organizational Growth in the U.S. Venture Capital Industry. (2006 Glueck Best Paper Award, Business Policy and Strategy Division, Academy of Management; summarized in Best Paper Proceedings of the 2006 Academy of Management Meeting) Works in Progress Askin, N. S. and M. S. Bothner. 2012. Who wins and who loses in the contest for on-campus diversity? Bothner, M. S., Y. K. Kim, and W. Lee. 2011. How does Status Affect Inertia? Kinds of Status and Strategic Change in the U.S. Venture Capital Industry. Bothner, M. S. 2011. The Effects of Status-Based Peer Monitoring on Exploration and Exploitation. S. Golder, M. Macy, and M. S. Bothner. 2011. Is Happiness Really Contagious? Using Twitter Data to Estimate Peer Effects.
Honors, Grants, and Awards 2014 Mario Rese Best Teacher Award (ESMT, EMBA program) 2013 Hillel J. Einhorn Award for Excellence in Teaching (Chicago Booth AXP program) 2012 Hillel J. Einhorn Awards for Excellence in Teaching (Chicago Booth AXP and EXP programs) 2011 Hillel J. Einhorn Awards for Excellence in Teaching (Chicago Booth AXP and EXP programs) 2008 Faculty Excellence Award for Teaching, University of Chicago Booth School of Business 2006 Glueck Best Paper Award, Business Policy and Strategy Division, Academy of Management 2004-8 Kauffman Foundation Entrepreneurship Research Grants 2004-5 FMC Scholar, University of Chicago Booth School of Business 2004 Faculty Excellence Award for Teaching, University of Chicago Booth School of Business 2001-2 Charles E. Merrill Scholar, University of Chicago Booth School of Business 2001 Newman Award for the best paper based on a recent Ph.D. thesis, Academy of Management 2001 Louis R. Pondy Award for the best paper based upon a Ph.D. thesis in the Organization and Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management 2000 Dissertation unanimously awarded Distinction by the Department of Sociology, Columbia University 1998 Alex Inkeles Award for highest performance on comprehensive exams, Department of Sociology, Columbia University 1994 summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, Boston University 1994 Alumni Merit Award for best senior thesis, University Professors Program, Boston University 1993 Younger Scholar s Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities Selected Presentations at Seminars and Conferences 2015 INSEAD, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford Strife from Structural Equivalence: Evidence from Collisions in Formula 1 racing 2015 Business and Public Policy Workshop, ESMT, Status Similarity and Sabotage 2014 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Losing to Losers: Embarrassment and Performance in Formula 1 racing 2014 IESE Business School, Strategic Management Society Tel Aviv Conference, Business and Public Policy in a Global Economy Conference, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, Status-Aspirational Pricing: The Chivas Regal Strategy in U.S. Higher Education (with Noah Askin) 2013 Nagymaros (Organizational Ecology) Conference, Corvinus University of Budapest, Peer Effects in Tournaments for Status: Evidence from Rank Dynamics of U.S. Colleges and Universities (with Noah Askin) 2013 Lugano Conference on Organizations, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Status-Aspirational Pricing: The Chivas Regal Strategy in U.S. Higher Education (with Noah Askin) 2013 INSEAD, Status and Self-Presentational Pricing (with Noah Askin) 2012 INFORMS, School Status and Tuition for U.S. Colleges and Universities (with Noah Askin). EGOS, Oxford Reputation Symposium, Free University, Peer Effects in Tournaments for Status: Evidence from Rank Dynamics of U.S. Colleges and Universities (with Noah Askin) 2012 European Group for Organizational Studies, EGOS, Peer Effects in Tournaments for Prestige: Evidence from Dynamics in Ranks of U.S. Colleges and Universities (with Noah Askin) 2011 Columbia University, Tuck School of Business, ESMT, Primary Status, Complementary Status, and Organizational Survival in the U.S. Venture Capital Industry (with Wonjae Lee and Young- Kyu Kim). University of Lund, School Status and Tuition for U.S. Colleges and Universities (with Noah Askin)
2010 Cornell University, School Status and Tuition for U.S. Colleges and Universities (with Noah Askin). University of Wisconsin, Primary Status, Complementary Status, and Organizational Survival in the U.S. Venture Capital Industry (with Wonjae Lee and Young-Kyu Kim) 2009 Tuck School of Business, Yale School of Management, A Model of Robust Positions in Social Structure (with Ned Smith and Harrison C. White) 2008 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, When Do Matthew Effects Occur? (with Richard Haynes and Joel Podolny) 2008 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, How Does Status Affect Performance? Status as an Asset vs. Status as a Liability in the PGA and NASCAR (with Ned Smith and Young-Kyu Kim) 2007-8 Wharton Conference on Governance, Leadership, and Networks, Cornell University Center for the Study of Economy and Society, University of Maryland, Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations Colloquium University of California Haas School of Business, Primary Status, Complementary Status, and Capital Acquisition in the U.S. Venture Capital Industry (with Wonjae Lee and Young-Kyu Kim) 2007-8 Conference on the Emergence of Social Organization, University of Chicago GSB, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, A Model of Robust Positions in Social Structure (with Ned Smith and Harrison C. White) 2006 Organizations and Markets Workshop GSB, Intra-Organizational Networks (ION) Conference How Does Status Affect Performance? Status as an Asset vs. Status as a Liability in the PGA and NASCAR. (with Young-Kyu Kim and Ned Smith) 2006 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, How Does Status Affect Inertia? (with Wonjae Lee and Young-Kyu Kim) 2005-6 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Harvard Business School, Carnegie Mellon University, Northwestern University, Primary Status, Complementary Status, and Capital Acquisition in the U.S. Venture Capital Industry (with Wonjae Lee and Young-Kyu Kim) 2005 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, MIT Harvard Economic Sociology Seminar, Status Volatility and Organizational Growth in the U.S. Venture Capital Industry (with Jeong-han Kang and Wonjae Lee). 2004 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, University of Michigan, Social Constraint and the Rate of Reciprocal Exchange among Venture Capital Firms (with Scott Meadow and Salih Ozdemir). 2004 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting; Academy of Management Meeting, Status Differentiation and the Cohesion of Social Networks (with Toby Stuart and Harrison White). 2003 Stanford Strategy Conference, Stanford GSB, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Structural Antecedents of Aggressive Conduct: Competitive Crowding and the Propensity to Crash in Professional Stock Car Auto Racing (with Toby Stuart and Jeong-han Kang) 2001 Organizations and Markets Workshop GSB, Academy of Management Annual Meeting, INFORMS Conference, Social Contagion and the Adoption of a New Technology. 2001 Organizations and Markets Workshop GSB (summer 2000), Academy of Management Annual Meeting, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Structure, Scale, and Scope in the Global Computer Industry. 1999 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Regular Session on Organizations, The informal workplace: Analyzing freedom from bureaucratic structure.
2002 Stanford Strategy Conference, Stanford GSB, Strategic moves across kinds of markets. (with Harrison C. White) 1998 Sociology Department Colloquium Series, University of Pennsylvania, Predicting market alternatives. (with Harrison C. White) 1998 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Section on Mathematical Sociology, Predicting market alternatives. (with Harrison C. White) Reviewing American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Industrial and Corporate Change, Management Science, Organization Science, Social Networks, Social Science Research, Sociological Methods and Research. Teaching MBA-level strategy course; executive education classes on innovation, organizational change, and corporate strategy; executive MBA-level course on strategic leadership Last updated: December 3, 2015