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JoAnne Yates

Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management, Emerita
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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).

Recent Presentations at BHC Annual Meetings

Service to the BHC


Grants and Prizes Committee 2015 - 2018 [Chair 2016 - 2017]
Past-President on Board 2006 - 2007
Nominating Committee 2005 - 2006
Past President 2005 - 2006
President 2004 - 2005
Program Committee 2004 - 2005 President
Program Committee 2003 - 2004
President-Elect 2003 - 2004
Grants and Prizes Committee 2003 - 2004 [Chair 2003 - 2004]
Board of Trustees 1992 - 1995

Prizes and Grants from the BHC


Harold F. Williamson Prize, 1998

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