Curtis Chan

Assoc Prof @ UofAlberta | PhD @HarvardHBS, MA @HarvardSoc, BA @Harvard | Research occupations/professions in organizations | Dance fan

[Curtis Chan @CurtisKChan]

A new year, a new chapter: Excited to join the Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Management dept. at the University of Alberta as a tenured Associate Professor this summer! I'll miss my BC/Boston community but look forward to new adventures and connections at U of A in Edmonton🥂

[Curtis Chan @CurtisKChan]

Excited that my Academy of Management Journal paper with @TomiKoljonen is officially in print! In it, we show how organizations and their managers can respond in a balanced way to broad technology pressures: with an "intra-professional segmentation"

https://t.co/EnBCCTLtjW

[Marc Gruber @MarcBGruber]

The JUNE 2024 issue of Academy of Management Journal is out! Check out these great papers and our "From the Editors" piece on Research Collaborations!

https://t.co/OgH9BIVbKP

[Curtis Chan @CurtisKChan]

I sometimes forget how much of a masterpiece John Van Maanen and Steve Barley's Occupational Communities (1984) chapter is – how thorough yet sweeping its insights, even 40 years after its publication.

And then I re-read it, and I remember.

[Curtis Chan @CurtisKChan]

It's all very complex! I'm glad to see this thoughtful NYT reporting done that centers on students while also connecting their experiences to broader topics like rising tuition, housing costs, and effective altruism

[Curtis Chan @CurtisKChan]

@francescamari's audio reading of her @nytimesbusiness piece really struck a chord with me. Like her, I also graduated from @Harvard circa '07/'08 and recall the emphasis on recruiting then.

[Francesca Mari is on Bluesky @francescamari]

I wrote this @nytimesbusiness story to work thru what I saw @Harvard last year. The undergrads were the same, but different. The recruiting was more intense & the students more professionalized, their understanding of the world understandably more cynical https://t.co/5ViHW3CteN

[Curtis Chan @CurtisKChan]

That all makes career decision-making even more complicated than it already is for them. Meanwhile, from the advisers' perspectives (the focus of our paper), they're trying to walk a tightrope of discerning what their understandably overwhelmed students value and helping them

[Curtis Chan @CurtisKChan]

Check out the @HarvardBiz that @LindseyDCameron, I, and Michel Anteby wrote: "Why Calling Your Workers Heroes Can Backfire"!

[Lindsey Cameron @LindseyDCameron]

Remember when gig workers were called heroes at the height of the pandemic? It can backfire. Learn why.

@CurtisKChan @HarvardBiz

https://t.co/JGLyT9v07n

[Curtis Chan @CurtisKChan]

@jonj @TomiKoljonen Thank you, Jon! Cheers to 2024 🍻

[Curtis Chan @CurtisKChan]

Happy new year! I'm pleased to announce that my #AMJ with @TomiKoljonen is now online! We show how organizations can respond in a balanced way to broad technology pressures: with an intra-professional segmentation https://t.co/nac9i7EhKm 1/6

[Curtis Chan @CurtisKChan]

@LoriYue Fascinating study, @LoriYue! Very interesting idea of venue shifting in the drone industry; I can totally see how it generalizes to other kinds of nascent industries 🧐

[Curtis Chan @CurtisKChan]

@LoriYue @TomiKoljonen Thanks, Lori! Hope you're having a great start to 2024

[Curtis Chan @CurtisKChan]

Overall, this segmentation b/w enthusiasts and skeptics that was supported by managers struck a good balance. It met mgrs' goals of gaining enough tech adoption among enthusiasts to burnish the school's reputation as a leader, while not alienating or demotivating skeptics! 6/6

[Curtis Chan @CurtisKChan]

Some teachers, enthusiastic about tech change, embraced new techs. Other teachers were more skeptical of new tech. Managers, for their part, supported BOTH tech enthusiasts and skeptics – giving enthusiasts resources and not forcing skeptics to adopt. 5/6

[Curtis Chan @CurtisKChan]

@mattbeane @OrganizationSci It’s a wonderful paper that anyone interested in occupations and/or technology should check out! Congrats, Matt and Callen!

[Curtis Chan @CurtisKChan]

@LindseyDCameron I love that paper! Congratulations – so well deserved!