Misiek Piskorski

Mikołaj Jan Piskorski, who often goes by Misiek, is an Associate Professor of Business Administration and Marvin Bower Fellow in the Strategy Unit at the Harvard Business School (Professor Piskorski's website).

Professor Piskorski received his B.A and M.A. (Cantab) from University of Cambridge where he read Economics and Politics at Christ's College. Subsequently, he received A.M. in Sociology and Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Harvard University. After completing his Ph.D. Professor Piskorski became a faculty member in the Organizational Behavior area at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. In 2004, he returned to Harvard to teach the Required Curriculum Strategy course in the MBA Program. He is now teaching his own Elective Curriculum class: Competing With Social Networks. In addition, Professor Piskorski teaches in Building and Sustaining Competitive Advantage, Strategic Agility and Media Strategies Executive Education programs as well as in a number of external programs. Professor Piskorski is also Managing Director at Market Platform Dynamics where he consults extensively to large corporations in the financial services industry.

Professor Piskorski's current research examines how firms can harness the power of social networks together with innovative organizational designs to build and implement sustainable strategies. He is also an expert on why and how people use on-line social networks, both in the US and abroad, and how firms can use them to increase viral product adoption. He has also applied many of these insights to large organizations as they seek to become more agile and use social networks to execute their strategies. Misiek’s previous research examined the role of social networks in the venture capital industry.

His research has been published in Administrative Science Quarterly and Social Forces and cited in the New York Times, Business 2.0, and Investors Business Daily. He serves or has served on the editorial boards of several academic journals including Administrative Science Quarterly, American Journal of Sociology, Management Science and Organization Science.