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Stanford Clean Technology Research Project
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Innovation Research Lab
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Crocker Innovation Fellowship
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International
Business Model Competition

Education

Ph.D., Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation, Stanford University, 2009

Teaching/Research Positions

Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship, Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University, 2009 - Present

Visiting Research Professor, ESSEC Business School, France, 2010

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Publications

1. Furr, Nathan R., Fabrice Cavaretta, and Sam Garg. (2012). “Who Changes Course? The Role of Domain Knowledge and Novel Framing in Making Technology Changes.” Forthcoming, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.

2. Bingham, Christopher B., Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, and Nathan R. Furr. (2011). “Which Strategy and When?” Sloan Management Review, 53, pages 71‐78.

3. Eisenhardt, Kathleen M., Nathan R. Furr, and Christopher B. Bingham. (2010). “Microfoundations of Performance: Balancing Efficiency and Flexibility in Dynamic Environments.” Organization Science, 21, pages 1263–1273.

4. Bingham, Christopher B., Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, and Nathan R. Furr. (2007). “What Makes a Process a Capability? Heuristics and the Strategic Logic of Opportunity.” Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 1, pages 27‐47.

Awards

Distinguished Paper Award, Business Policy and Strategy Division, Academy of Management, 2011

Glueck Best Paper Award, Finalist, Business Policy and Strategy, Academy of Management, 2011

Research Promise Award, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Kauffman Firm Survey Research Enclave, 2011

Best Paper, Finalist, Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 2011

Ballard Center for Economic Self Reliance, Teaching Fellow, 2011

Best Dissertation, Technology and Innovation Management Division, Academy of Management, 2010

Heizer Award for Best Dissertation, Entrepreneurship Division, Academy of Management, 2010

Research Promise IDEA Award, Entrepreneurship Division, Academy of Management and University of Connecticut, 2010

Best Empirical Research Paper, Academy of Management, Kauffman Foundation, 2010

Best Dissertation, Finalist, Sloan Industry Studies Dissertation Award, 2010

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Entrepreneurial Firm Research Fellowship, 2009

Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology Research Grant, Marriott School of Management, 2009

Marriott School of Management Research Grant, 2008, 2009, 2010

National Science Foundation Grant (IOC Award# 0621777), Principal Investigator: Kathleen Eisenhardt

Stanford School of Engineering Research Support, 2005-2009

Stanford School of Engineering Fellowship, 2004

Papers Under Review / Advanced Papers

1. Furr, Nathan R. and Daniel Snow. (2013). “Last Gasp or Crossing the Chasm? The Case of the Carburetor Technological Discontinuity.” Under review, Strategic Management Journal.

2. Furr, Nathan R. and Daniel Snow. (2013). “Inter-Generational Hybrids: Spillbacks, Spillforwards, and Surviving Technological Discontinuities.” Under review, Organization Science.

3. Bryce, David, Jeffrey H. Dyer, and Nathan R. Furr. (2013). “Leaping to New Markets: The Effects of Prior Experience on the Success of Strategic Transformation.” Under review (1 st R&R), Organization Science.

4. Cavarretta, Fabrice and Nathan R. Furr. (2013). “Means, Variability, and Extremes: Reinterpreting the Role of Resources in New Ventures.” Under review (1 st R&R), Management Science.

5. Furr, Nathan R. and Jeffrey H. Dyer. (2013). “From B-School to I-School: The Management Science of Innovation.” Under review, Harvard Business Review.

6. Bingham, Christopher B. and Nathan R. Furr. (2013). “The Opportunity Paradox: Focus versus Flexibility.” Under review, Sloan Management Review

7. Bryce, David, Jeffrey H. Dyer, and Nathan R. Furr. (2013). “Corporate Reinvention: When and How It Works.” Under review, Sloan Management Review.

8. Kapoor, Rahul and Nathan R. Furr. (2013). “Complementarities and Capabilities: Unpacking the Drivers of Entrants Technology Choices in the Solar Photovoltaic Industry.” Preparation for submission to Strategic Management Journal.

9. Furr, Nathan R. and Kathleen Eisenhardt. (2013). “Cognitive Flexibility and Technology Change.” Preparation for submission to Administrative Science Quarterly.

10. Garg, Sam and Nathan R. Furr. (2013). “A Contingency Theory of Executive Cognition and Adaptation.” Stanford Technology Ventures Program Working Paper. Preparation for submission to Academy of Management Review.

11. Cavarretta, Fabrice and Nathan R. Furr. (2013). “Which Entrepreneurship Paradigm? Exploring the Epistemic Properties of a Keystone Rules.” Working Paper.

12. Cavarretta, Fabrice, Mark Mortenson, and Nathan R. Furr. (2013). “Building Theory based on Variability: A New Lens on Theory.” Working Paper.






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