Research & Teaching

Research Interests

Innovation, Technology Strategy, Commercialization

Working Papers 

Bearson, D. "Keep, License, or Sell? Examining the Antecedents of Strategic Intellectual Property Transfer." (JMP)

Bearson, D. & Roche, M. (2025). "Transferability MATTRs: Towards Understanding Antecedents of Strategic Licensing." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-042. 

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

• Featured research by Columbia Business School

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.

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 

Strategy Science, Socio-Economic Review, Industrial and Corporate Change.

Teaching  

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

Tutor for Program for Research in Markets and Organizations (2024 & 2025), Harvard Business School.