Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan Distinguished Professor of Managment

JoAnne Yates is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management and a Professor of Managerial Communication and Work and Organization Studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Her most recent single-authored historical book, Structuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century, provides insight into the largely unexplored evolution of information processing in the commercial sector and the underrated influence of corporate users in shaping the history of modern technologies. She has recently 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 is now available from Johns Hopkins University Press.