Isaac Tucker

Doctoral Candidate, Strategy
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Committee Chair: Olav Sorenson

Isaac Tucker

I study strategy and organizational design with an emphasis on search, learning, and human capital. I look for edge cases, wedges, puzzles and Catch-22s and love nothing more than pinning down exactly why organizations act the way they do. Before academia, I spent a decade in a high-growth software firm. My experience, from entrepreneurship to IPO and beyond, forms the foundation of my research.

Working Papers

Performance as a Random Variable

Job market paper. A formal model setting the scope conditions for human-capital strategy under stochastic performance.  ·  Draft (OSF)  ·  CCC slides (PDF)

Searching for Serendipity

With Martin Gonzalez-Cabello and Olav Sorenson. A modified NK model of theory-based search. Major revision, Strategic Management Journal.  ·  Draft (OSF)

Playing the Spread: The Implications of Worker Volatility for Human Capital Management

A difference-in-differences design using NBA data to answer two questions: do organizations value consistency, and should they? Draft forthcoming.

Publications

Mapping Knowledge Space and Technological Relatedness in US Cities

From my master's thesis, with Dieter F. Kogler and David L. Rigby. European Planning Studies, 21(9), 1374–1391 (2013).  ·  DOI