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 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 (PDF)  ·  CCC slides (PDF)

Searching for Serendipity

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

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 (PDF)

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