Evgeny Kagan, PhD

Evgeny Kagan's research lies at the intersection of behavioral sciences and operations management. His work studies a variety of operational contexts, which include entrepreneurship, product development, productivity and incentive design.  Evgeny's research has been published in leading journals, such as Management Science, and he is a recipient of several research awards. He is also a co-author on a report commissioned by the Kauffman foundation studying entrepreneurial mentoring.

Education

• Ph. D, Operations Management, Ross School of Business - University of Michigan
• M.Phil, Logistics and Information Systems, Erasmus University
• BS, Business Administration, Mannheim University

Research

Selected publications

• "Ideation-Execution Transition in Product Development: Experimental Analysis" with S. Leider & W. Lovejoy. Management Science, 64 (5), 2018; pp 1975-2471
• "Equity Contracting and Incentive Design in Startup Teams" with S. Leider & W. Lovejoy. Management Science, forthcoming.

Works in progress

• "Passing the buck? Transfer decisions in services" with Brett Hathaway and Maqbool Dada
• "Dynamic Decision Making in Operations Management and Marketing" with Stephen Leider and Ozge Sahin
• "Entrepreneurial Market Research: When Hypotheses Outnumber Samples" with S. Leider & W. Lovejoy.

Teaching

Current

• Business Analytics

Honors and distinctions

• Winner, Best paper competition in Innovation Management 2017, EBS Wiesbaden
• Finalist, POMS College of Product Innovation and Technology Management (PITM) best student paper competition 2017
• Rackham Pre-doctoral Fellowship 2017 - 2018 (Awarded for outstanding doctoral research)
• Finalist, INFORMS Behavioral Operations working paper competition 2016

In the media

• Selecting, Recruiting, and Retaining Mentors for your Mentor Network
• Employee contract structures in startups can be determining factors of success