Dr. Alexander Oettl joined the strategic management faculty in 2009.  His research interests include technology strategy, the economics of innovation, knowledge spillovers, labor mobility, and human capital.  His current work looks at the impact that high performing individuals, or "stars", have on the performance of their peers.

Dr. Oettl's research has been published in Management Science (forthcoming), Journal of Urban Economics, the Journal of International Business Studies, profiled in the New York Times, and presented at top business schools around the world.

• Oettl, Alexander. Forthcoming “Reconceptualizing Stars: Scientist Helpfulness and Peer Performance,” Management Science 
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• Agrawal, Ajay, Devesh Kapur, John McHale, and Alexander Oettl. 2011 “Brain Drain or Brain Bank? The Impact of Skilled Emigration on Poor-Country Innovation,” Journal of Urban Economics, 69(1), 43-55 
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• Oettl, Alexander and Ajay Agrawal. 2008. "International Labor Mobility and Knowledge Flow Externalities." Journal of International Business Studies, 39, 1242–1260. 
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