Faculty & Research

Pierre Azoulay

Zenon Zannetos (1955) Career Development Professor
Associate Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management

Biography

Professor Azoulay joined the MIT Sloan School faculty in July 2006. In his research, he investigates how organizational design and social networks influence the productivity of R&D in the health care sector. Currently, he is studying the impact of superstar researchers on the research productivity of their colleagues in the academic life sciences. He is also 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 researched the outsourcing strategies of pharmaceutical firms, in particular the role played by contract research organizations in the clinical trials process. He teaches courses on strategy and technology strategy.

Professor Azoulay is also a faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. From 2001 and 2006, he was Associate Professor of Management at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business.

Web Site: http://scripts.mit.edu/~pazoulay/