JoAnne Yates is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management, Emerita and a Professor of Managerial Communication and Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Most recently she collaborated with her husband, Craig N. Murphy, professor of political science at Wellesley College, on a study of the history of voluntary consensus standard setting: Engineering Rules: Global Standard Setting Since 1880 (JHUP, 2019). Her other historical books are Structuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century (JHUP, 2005), and Control through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management, 1850-1820 (JHUP, 1989).