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Telephone: 617-552-2891
Email: curtis.chan@bc.edu
ORCID
Field Research; Organization and Management Theory; Diversity andIinequality; and Worker Experience.
Curtis K. Chan's research explores how people navigate challenges and opportunities in the workplace. In particular, he focuses on how occupational members鈥攅xpert professionals trained in a specialized line of work鈥攅xperience and engage with control and diversity when they work in organizations. To build new theory in this area, he conducts inductive, qualitative field research. He has studied airport security screeners, university career advisers in business schools, Instacart gig-workers, consultants, teachers, and visual practitioners, with award-winning papers published in top-tier academic journals such as听Administrative Science Quarterly,听Organization Science,听Academy of Management Journal,听Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and the听Academy of Management Annals. He also has written pieces appearing in the听Harvard Business Review. His research has received distinctions such as the ASQ Award for Scholarly Contribution, the Academy of Management鈥檚 Saroj Parasuraman Award for outstanding publication on gender and diversity, the Best Article Award from the听Academy of Management Annals, and the Academy of Management鈥檚 ONE-SIM Outreach Award. His research has been mentioned in media outlets such as听The Atlantic, Axios, and听Scientific American, as well as in popular books like Bob Sutton鈥檚听The Asshole Survival Guide听and podcasts like Adam Grant鈥檚听WorkLife.
He has received 鈥淭eaching Star鈥 distinctions from the Dean and teaching committee at Boston College鈥檚 Carroll School of Management for outstanding teaching, based on having received most favorable evaluations from students, while also challenging them intellectually.听He was named one of the听.听Chan serves on the Editorial Review Boards for Administrative Science Quarterly and Organization Science.
He received his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and master鈥檚 degree in Sociology from Harvard University. Before entering graduate school, Chan worked in the management and strategy consulting industry at the firm Innosight. He earned his bachelor鈥檚 degree in social anthropology and a secondary field in psychology from Harvard College, graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. During college, he conducted ethnographic research on the cultural values of street dancers in New England and Miami, and the undergraduate thesis he wrote on this topic was awarded a Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for outstanding thesis research.听
(With Tomi Koljonen.) Academy of Management Journal. 2024.
(With Luke Hedden.) Academy of Management Journal, 66 (1). February, 2023.听
(With Lindsey Cameron and Michel Anteby.) Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 172. September, 2022.
(With Michel Anteby.) Harvard Business Review. April, 2018.听
(With Michel Anteby.) Organization Science, 29(2): 247-263. March, 2018.听
(With Michel Anteby.) Administrative Science Quarterly,听61 (2): 184-216. October, 2015.听
鈥溾 (With Michel Anteby and Julia DiBenigno.) Academy of Management Annals, 10 (1): 183-244. January, 2016.
Professor Chan is on the Editorial Review Boards for听Administrative Science Quarterly听and听Organization Science.听He is a member of the Academy of Management, the American Sociological Association, and the Boston Field Research Community.