Prasanna B. Tambe

 

 

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PhD Candidate

Operations & Information Management

The Wharton School, U. Pennsylvania

 

500 Jon M. Huntsman Hall

3730 Walnut Street

Philadelphia, PA 19104

email: tambe [at] wharton.upenn.edu

tel: 215.898.1217

 

 

 

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Education

           

Ph.D., Managerial Science and Applied Economics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2003-2008 (Expected).

Thesis Title: “Essays on Technology, Labor Mobility, and Organizations”

 

M.Eng., Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997.

 

S.B., Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996.

 

 

Research Interests

 

            Labor Mobility and Organizations

The Effects of Offshoring on Firms and Workers

IT, Organizations, and Productivity

 

Publications

 

Broadband Adoption and Content Consumption (with Lorin Hitt)  Information Economics and Policy, 19(3-4): 362-378, 2007.

 

Working Papers

 

Which Skills are Offshorable? Evidence from Information Technology Workers, 1995-2006 (with Lorin Hitt) Under review.

 

The Effects of Measurement Error on Knowledge Spillover Estimates (with Lorin Hitt) Under review.

 

Job-Hopping and the Information Technology Revolution (with Lorin Hitt)

 

Work in Progress

 

New Evidence on Firm-Level Returns to Information Systems Spending (with Lorin Hitt)

 

Is Organizational Capital an Asset? (with Lorin Hitt and Erik Brynjolfsson)

 

Conference Proceedings

 

 Measuring Spillovers from Information Technology Investments (with Lorin Hitt), Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Information Systems, Milwaukee, 2006.

 

References

 

Lorin Hitt

Associate Professor of OPIM

Alberto Vitale Term Professor

The Wharton School

University of Pennsylvania

lhitt@wharton.upenn.edu

215.898.7730

 

Peter Cappelli

Professor of Management

George W. Taylor Chair Professor

The Wharton School

University of Pennsylvania

cappelli@wharton.upenn.edu

215.898.2722

 

Eric Clemons

Professor of OPIM

The Wharton School

University of Pennsylvania

clemons@wharton.upenn.edu

215.898.7747

 

Lori Rosenkopf

Associate Professor of Management

The Wharton School

University of Pennsylvania

rosenkopf@wharton.upenn.edu

215.898.6723