Sharon Oster
Frederic D. Wolfe Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at Yale School of Management
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- Yale School of Management
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Biography
Yale School of Management
Sharon Oster served as dean of the Yale School of Management from 2008 to 2011. She is a specialist in competitive strategy, microeconomic theory, industrial organization, the economics of regulation and antitrust, and nonprofit strategy. She has written extensively on the regulation of business and competitive strategy. Professor Oster’s book Modern Competitive Analysis, used widely at management schools, integrates a broad range of views in its analysis of management strategy and emphasizes an economic approach to strategic planning. Her second book, Strategic Management for Nonprofit Organizations, takes the same economic approach to managing nonprofit organizations. Professor Oster has consulted widely to private, public, and nonprofit organizations.
EDUCATION
- PhD , Harvard University, 1974
- BA , Hofstra College, 1970
ACHIEVEMENTS
Yale SOM Alumni Association Teaching Award, Yale School of Management Alumni Association, 2013
SELECTED BOOKS
Principles of Economics S. M. Oster Case and Fair 2010
Generating and Sustaining Nonprofit Earned Income: A Guide to Successful Enterprise Strategies S. M. Oster, C. W. Massarsky, S. L. Beinhacker and B. Bradley Jossey-Bass 2004
Modern competitive analysis S. M. Oster Oxford University Press 1999
Strategic management for nonprofit organizations: Theory and cases S. M. Oster Oxford University Press on Demand 1995
Management of Nonprofit Organizations S. M. Oster Dartmouth Press 1994
SELECTED ARTICLES
Competition Among University Endowments W. Goetzmann and S. Oster How the Financial Crisis and Great Recession Affected Higher Education 2013
Competitive Strategy in the Nonprofit Sector S. M. Oster Oxford Handbook of Managerial Economics 2012
Review of The Economists' Oath by George DcMartino S. M. Oster Journal of Economic Literature 2011
Product diversification and social enterprise S. M. Oster Handbook of Research on Nonprofit Economics and Management 2010
Truly Global S. M. Oster Business India 2009
Videos
Prof. Sharon Oster on Nonprofit Strategy
Opening Ceremony
Social Entrepreneurship
The Pioneers: Celebrating Women Leaders of Yale SOM
Entering Our Fifth Decade: Faculty Look Back
7. Can You Sell a Scheme for Operating on Beating Hearts and Make a Business of It?
Professor Sharon M. Oster Master Class on Nonprofit Expansion and Replication
Conversation with Indra Nooyi SOM '80
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