Academic CV_schai 082812 - Harvard Business School
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<strong>Harvard</strong> <strong>Business</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
Soldiers Field Road<br />
Wyss House<br />
Boston MA 02163<br />
Sen Chai<br />
<strong>schai</strong>@hbs.edu<br />
http://scholar.harvard.edu/senchai<br />
+1(650) 235-6178<br />
Citizenship: Canadian<br />
Education<br />
9/08 - Present <strong>Harvard</strong> University Boston, MA<br />
<strong>Harvard</strong> <strong>Business</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
Doctoral Candidate for DBA in Technology and Operations Management<br />
(expected June 2013)<br />
Dissertation: “Essays on the emergence and diffusion of breakthroughs”<br />
Committee: Lee Fleming (chair), Gary Pisano, Vicki Sato, Fiona Murray (MIT)<br />
9/05 - 6/06 Stanford University Stanford, CA<br />
MS in Management Science and Engineering<br />
9/01 - 4/05 McGill University Montreal, Canada<br />
BEng in Electrical Engineering, Minor in Management<br />
Dean’s Honor list and Distinction mention (Magna Cum Laude)<br />
Research Interests<br />
Technological innovation, scientific innovation, commercialization of science, global<br />
innovation strategy, technological strategy.<br />
Working Papers<br />
- Chai, Sen and Lee Fleming. 2012 “Predicting breakthroughs with bibliometrics: A review<br />
and critical assessment.” Working Paper. (Submission target: Management Science)<br />
- Chai, Sen. 2012 “Beyond bibliometrics: Understanding breakthrough emergence.” Working<br />
Paper. (Submission target: Organization Science)<br />
Work in Progress<br />
- Chai, Sen. “Beyond Citations: Societal and Commercial Impact of Breakthroughs.”<br />
Case Studies<br />
- Shih, Willy C., Sen Chai, Kamen Bliznashki, and Courtney Jane Hyland. "Office of<br />
Technology Transfer - Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences." <strong>Harvard</strong> <strong>Business</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
Case 611-057.<br />
- Shih, Willy C., and Sen Chai. "Office of Technology Transfer - Shanghai Institutes for<br />
Biological Sciences (TN)." <strong>Harvard</strong> <strong>Business</strong> <strong>School</strong> Teaching Note 611-058.<br />
- Shih, Willy C., and Sen Chai. "Alnylam Pharmaceuticals: Building Value from the IP<br />
Estate." <strong>Harvard</strong> <strong>Business</strong> <strong>School</strong> Case 611-009.<br />
Other Publications<br />
- Valverde-Franco, Gladys, Hanlong Liu, David Davidson, Sen Chai, Hector Valderrama-<br />
Carvajal, David Goltzman, David M. Ornitz, and Janet E. Henderson. 2004. “Defective bone<br />
mineralization and osteopenia in young adult FGFR3 −/− mice” Human Molecular Genetics,<br />
13(3):271-284.<br />
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- Amizuka, Norio, David Davidson, Hanlong Liu, Gladys Valverde-Franco, Sen Chai,<br />
Takeyasu Maeda, Hidehiro Ozawa, Vicki Hammond, David M Ornitz, David<br />
Goltzman, Janet E Henderson. 2004. “Signalling by fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 and<br />
parathyroid hormone-related peptide coordinate cartilage and bone development” Bone,<br />
34(1): 13-25.<br />
Teaching Experience<br />
MBA course teaching fellow<br />
• Analytics Program – Pre-matriculation Finance course (Summer 2012, 2011 and 2010)<br />
- Answered student questions pertaining to the Finance module<br />
- Led daily Finance review sessions<br />
- Developed Learning Diagnostics for the Finance, Accounting and Excel modules<br />
• Assembling Global Innovation Strategies with Profs. Willy Shih and Vicki Sato – Second-year field<br />
study course in Bangalore and Hyderabad, India and Singapore (Spring 2012) and in Shanghai, China<br />
(Spring 2011)<br />
- Led overseas on-site case interviews and mentored case writing process<br />
Executive Education teaching fellow<br />
• Managing Health Care Delivery with Prof. V.G. Narayanan (Spring 2012)<br />
- Answered individual student questions pertaining to the Accounting and Finance modules<br />
Teaching Interests<br />
Managing technology and innovation, commercializing science, global innovation<br />
strategy, entrepreneurship<br />
Professional Experience<br />
07/06-09/08 Deloitte Consulting LLP – Consultant San Francisco, CA & Seattle, WA<br />
Developed business cases for the optimization of business processes in Finance and Supply Chain<br />
Researched and authored design requirements to satisfy business case scenarios<br />
Analyzed data and recommended solutions that drive critical business decisions<br />
Facilitated the integration of cross-team project components<br />
Projects: electric utilities company, high-tech company and public sector government<br />
Professional Certification<br />
2011 Passed all 3 levels of CFA® curriculum<br />
Awards and Honors<br />
2008-2013 <strong>Harvard</strong> <strong>Business</strong> <strong>School</strong> Wyss Doctoral Fellowship<br />
2001-2005 McGill University McConnell Undergraduate Scholarship<br />
2004 McKinsey & Company Case Competition Award<br />
2004 National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada - NSERC Student<br />
Research Award<br />
2003 Canadian Institutes of Health Research - CIHR Research Award<br />
2001 Federation of Chinese Canadian Professionals Quebec scholarship<br />
Conferences<br />
“Predicting breakthroughs with bibliometrics: A review and critical assessment.”<br />
- LBS-TADC (LBS Trans-Atlantic Doctoral Conference), May 2011, London, UK<br />
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- DEIRC (Darden Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research Conference), May 2011,<br />
Charlottesville, VA<br />
- 7 th EMAEE (European Meeting on Applied Evolutionary Economics), February 2011,<br />
Pisa, Italy<br />
- DIME-DRUID Winter 2011 conference, Jan 2011, Aalborg, Denmark<br />
“Beyond bibliometrics: Understanding breakthrough emergence.”<br />
- Academy of Management Annual Meeting, August 2012, Boston, MA<br />
- HBS-WOM (HBS-Work, Organizations and Markets Seminar), April 2012, Boston, MA<br />
- UIUC Workshop on Disambiguation, June 2012, Urbana, IL<br />
“Boundary spanners between science and technology”<br />
- LBS-TADC (LBS Trans-Atlantic Doctoral Conference), May 2012, London, UK<br />
Other conferences and summer schools attended<br />
- West Coast Research Conference (at USC), September 2012, Los Angeles, CA<br />
- UC Davis Qualitative Methods Workshop, July 2012, Davis, CA<br />
- SERC (Smith Entrepreneurship Research Conference), April 2012, College Park, MD<br />
- USPTO-NSF Data Workshop, June 2011, Washington, DC<br />
- Trento Summer <strong>School</strong> on Networks and Innovation, July 2009, Trento, Italy<br />
Languages<br />
Native/Trilingual in English, French and Mandarin Chinese<br />
References<br />
Lee Fleming (Chair) – Professor<br />
Faculty Director of Coleman Fung Institute of Engineering Leadership<br />
UC Berkeley College of Engineering<br />
Berkeley, CA 94720<br />
lfleming@ieor.berkeley.edu<br />
+1(510)664-4586<br />
Gary P. Pisano – Harry E. Figgie, Jr. Professor of <strong>Business</strong> Administration<br />
<strong>Harvard</strong> <strong>Business</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
Technology and Operations Management<br />
Boston, MA 02163<br />
gpisano@hbs.edu<br />
+1(617)495-6562<br />
Vicki L. Sato – Professor of Management<br />
<strong>Harvard</strong> <strong>Business</strong> <strong>School</strong><br />
Technology and Operations Management<br />
Boston, MA 02163<br />
vsato@hbs.edu<br />
+1(617)495-8162<br />
Fiona E. Murray – Sarofim Family Career Development Professor<br />
MIT Sloan <strong>School</strong> of Management<br />
Management of Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship<br />
Cambridge, MA 02142<br />
fmurray@mit.edu<br />
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+1(617)253-3681<br />
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Appendix<br />
Chai, Sen and Lee Fleming. 2012 “Predicting breakthroughs with bibliometrics: A review and critical<br />
assessment.” Working Paper.<br />
Abstract:<br />
Following widespread availability of computerized databases, much research has correlated bibliometric<br />
measures from papers or patents to subsequent success, typically measured as the number of publications<br />
or citations. Building on this large body of work, we ask a simple question: given available bibliometric<br />
knowledge at any point in time, how accurately can we predict who will discover a future breakthrough?<br />
After reviewing and synthesizing the (often competing) predictions from the literatures, we collectively<br />
test those hypotheses based on available data in the year before RNA interference was discovered. We<br />
operationalize breakthrough from the most stringent definition of authoring the Nobel prize-winning<br />
paper and gradually relax it to an indicator of the top ten percent of citations, forward citation counts, and<br />
publication counts. Predictive power of current theories ranges from less than 1% for the Novel Prize to<br />
13% for productivity (including prior publications and citations increases the latter number to 49%). We<br />
conclude with an agenda for future progress in the bibliometric study of creativity.<br />
Chai, Sen. 2012 “Beyond bibliometrics: Understanding breakthrough emergence.” Working Paper.<br />
Abstract:<br />
Which scientists are more likely to discover scientific breakthroughs? This paper inductively generates<br />
theory on the emergence of breakthroughs through qualitative fieldwork by interviewing scientists at risk<br />
of discovering breakthroughs. Unlike technological inventions where novelty is established from first<br />
successful occurrence, several observations of the unexpected phenomenon were made before actual<br />
understanding of the RNA interference trigger mechanism was discovered. I find three themes that<br />
hindered earlier discovery or discovery altogether, explore causes and ways scientists use to circumvent<br />
them and in the process uncover puzzles counterintuitive to conventional belief. Scientists were blinded<br />
by focusing on normal science, were unable to connect the dots from multiple prior observations and were<br />
cognitively constrained by the current dogma. Finally, this work also identifies new empirical measures<br />
that influence breakthrough emergence, which can be operationalized and tested quantitatively.<br />
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