Research & Teaching

Research Interests

Innovation, Technology Strategy, Commercialization

Working Papers 

Bearson, D. "When Knowing Less Is More: Evidence from Licensing and Sale Agreements" (JMP)

• AOM 2026 Best Paper Designation 

Bearson, D. & Roche, M. (2025). "Transferability MATTRs: Invention Descriptions and Licensing Outcomes." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-042. 

• R&R at Strategic Management Journal

Bearson, D. & Wright, N. (2025). "Strategic Targeting and Unequal Global Adoption of Artificial Intelligence." SSRN Working Paper.

• Featured research by Columbia Business School and AInvest

Peer-Reviewed Publications  

Bearson, D., Kenney, M., & Zysman, J. (2021). “Measuring the Impacts of Labor in the Platform Economy: New Work Created, Old Work Reorganized, and Value Creation Reconfigured.” Industrial and Corporate Change, 30(3), 536-563.

Bearson, D. & Sunstein, C. (2023). “Take-up.” Behavioral Public Policy, 1-16.

• Cited in the Harvard Business Review

Kenney, M., Bearson, D., & Zysman, J. (2021). “The Platform Economy Matures: Exploring and Measuring Pervasiveness and Power.” Socio-Economic Review, 19(4), 1451-1483.

Work In Progress

• Bearson, D. "Keep, License, or Sell? Examining the Antecedents of Strategic Intellectual Property Transfer." Writing.

• Bearson, D. & Roche, M. "The Geography of Licensing." Data Analysis.

• Bearson, D. & Hsu, D. "When to Ally, When to Acquire?" Data Analysis. 

Other

Kenney, M., Zysman, J., Bearson, D., & Eldred, C. (2020). “Work in an Era of Intelligent Tools and Systems: Finding the Path to an Equitable Economy.” In Our Social Europe – Strong Together, Global Supply Chains – Global Responsibility, New Work – Human-centric Work, edited by A. M. Deutsch, A. Görne-Zagel, F. Kopowski, P. Ständer, and M. Thies. Berlin, Germany: Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs Directorate-General European and International Employment and Social Policy, ESF.

Ad Hoc Reviewer 

Strategic Management Society Conference (Best Reviewer Award CSIG), Strategy Science, Management Science, Socio-Economic Review, Industrial and Corporate Change.

Teaching  

Teaching Fellow for Required Curriculum MBA Strategy Course (2024), Harvard Business School. 

Project Advisor (2024, 2025, 2026) and Tutor (2024, 2025) for Program for Research in Markets and Organizations (PRIMO), Harvard Business School.