ERIC VAN DEN STEEN
April 2007
MIT-Sloan School of Management
50 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02142
Tel. (617) 253 0918  ;  web.mit.edu/evds/www/  ;  email : evds @ mit.edu


EMPLOYMENT

Zenon Zannetos Career Development Assistant Professor of Applied Economics, MIT Sloan School of Management, 2004-current
Assistant Professor of Applied Economics, MIT Sloan School of Management, 2001-2004
Associate, McKinsey & Company, 1994-96
Research Assistant (Mobile Robotics), Royal Military Academy, 1993
Consultant, Arthur D. Little, 1992
President, VTK vzw, 1990
Co-Founder, Deltax cv, 1986-88
 

EDUCATION


Ph.D. Economic Analysis and Policy, Stanford Graduate School of Business, May 2001
M.B.A., University of Chicago, March 1994, Honors
Special Program in Philosopy, KULeuven, Belgium, June 1993, Summa Cum Laude
Licenciate Business, KULeuven, Belgium, July 1991, Magna Cum Laude
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, KULeuven, Belgium, July 1990, Magna Cum Laude
 

RESEARCH INTERESTS


Organizational Economics; Economics of Strategy; Personnel Economics; Theory of the Firm
 

PUBLICATIONS

"Organizational Beliefs and Managerial Vision", Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 21 (1), Spring 2005, 256-283
"Rational Overoptimism (and Other Biases)", American Economic Review, 94, September 2004, 1141-1151
"Essays on the Managerial Implications of Differing Prior," May 2001, PhD Dissertation, Stanford Graduate School of Business
"Human Capital and Corporate Governance", with John Roberts, in Corporate Governance: A Volume in Honor of Horst Albach, J. Schwalbach ed., Berlin, Springer Verlag, 2000

WORKING PAPERS

"Interpersonal Authority in a Theory of the Firm," April 2007
"The Cost of Incentives under Disagreement" (formerly "Too Motivated?") March 2007
"Managing Know-How" (with Deishin Lee), December 2006
"The Limits of Authority: Motivation versus Coordination" June 2006, working paper
"Disagreement and the Allocation of Control" June 2006, working paper
"On the Origin of Shared Beliefs (and Corporate Culture)," August 2005, working paper
"Culture Clash: On the Costs and Benefits of Homogeneity", May 2004, working paper
"Overconfidence by Bayesian Rational Agents" March 2004, working paper
"Shareholder Interests, Human Capital Investments, and Corporate Governance," with John Roberts, April 2000, Stanford GSB Research Paper 1631
"Equity Participations and Hold-up," July 2000, working paper
"The Threat of Bankruptcy Can Solve the Hold-up Problem," July 2000, working paper
 

HONORS


Excellence in Teaching Award, MIT-Sloan, 2004
Jaedicke Scholar, 1997 and 1998
CIM/ICM Fellow, 1996-2000
Beta Gamma Sigma, 1994
Fulbright Scholar, 1992
Valedictorian at KULeuven engineering graduation ceremony, 1990
 

LANGUAGES


Fluent in Dutch, English, French. Working knowledge of German and Spanish.