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Ben Jones

Ben Jones

Associate Professor

Management & Strategy

BSE, Princeton University 1995; M.Phil., Oxford University, 1997; Ph.D., MIT, 2003

 
Academic Positions Held
 

Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University; 2003–present

   
Courses / Topics Taught
  International Business Strategy in Non-Market Environments (INTL-466)
   
Research Areas
  Economic growth, technology & innovation, development economics
   
Representative Research
 

"Do Leaders Matter? National Leadership and Growth since World War 2" (with Ben Olken), Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2005

"The Increasing Dominance of Teams in the Production of Knowledge" (with B. Uzzi and S. Wuchty), Science, May 2007

"The Burden of Knowledge and the Death of the Renaissance Man: Is Innovation Getting Harder?”

“Age and Great Invention”

   
General / Consulting
  US Department of the Treasury, Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary, 1997-98
   
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