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Education
Ph.D., Wallace E. Carroll School
of Management, Boston College
M.S., Wallace E. Carroll School of Management, Boston College
B.A., Earlham College, Departmental and College Honors
Areas of Expertise
Cultural industries, social
networks, leadership and negotiation
Background
2007, Lecturer, Simmons College,
Boston, MA
2006-2007, Organizational Scientist, Aptima, Inc., Woburn,
MA
1996-1998, Associate Director, Program on Negotiation, Harvard
Law School, Cambridge, MA
Courses Taught
Managing Organizations (MGT
303). Organizational Analysis and Skills (MGT 650)
Research Interests
Social networks and governance
practices in cultural markets, leadership development and
the impact of social context on negotiation practice
Selected Publications
Borgatti, S. P. & Foster.
P. (2003) The network paradigm in organizational research:
A review and typology. Journal
of Management, 29(6): 991-1013
Foster, P. (2002) Chasing the tastemakers: Gatekeeper embeddedness
in cultural industries. Best Paper Proceedings, OMT Division,
Academy of Management.
Foster, P. & Torbert, W. (2005) Leading through positive
deviance: A developmental action learning perspective on
institutional change. In Giacalone, R., Dunn, C., & Jurkiewicz,
C. (eds.). Positive psychology in business ethics and corporate
social responsibility. Greenwich: Information Age
Mnookin, R, Susskind, L, & Foster, P., eds. (1999) Negotiating
on Behalf of Others. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Professional Activities
Member of the institutional
review board at Aptima, Inc. and occasional reviewer for
the Journal of Management History, Human Organization and
the Journal of Organizational Behavior.
Honors
Graduate Research Fellowship,
2002, Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School Donald J.
White Distinguished Teaching Award, 2001, Boston College,
Chestnut Hill, MA.
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