Curtis K. Chan is an Assistant Professor of Management and Organization at Boston College's Carroll School of Management.
His research explores how people navigate challenges and opportunities in the workplace. In particular, he focuses on how occupational members—expert professionals trained in a specialized line of work—experience and engage with control and diversity when they work in organizations. To build new theory in this area, he conducts inductive, qualitative field research. He has studied airport security screeners, university career advisers in business schools, Instacart gig-workers, consultants, teachers, and visual practitioners, with award-winning papers published in top-tier academic journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and the Academy of Management Annals. He also has written work appearing in the Harvard Business Review. Curtis serves on the Editorial Review Boards for Administrative Science Quarterly and Organization Science.
As a teacher, he has taught organizational behavior and theory and has received “Teaching Star” distinctions. He was named one of the Poets&Quants Top 50 Undergraduate Professors Of 2020.
Curtis’s full academic CV is here. He received his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Harvard Business School and Harvard University, also earning a master’s degree in Sociology from Harvard University. His bachelor’s degree is also from Harvard University, where he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.
