Introduction
Sharon Oster (born September 3, 1948) is the Frederic D. Wolfe Professor Emerita of Management and Entrepreneurship at Yale School of Management. She is widely known as an economist focusing on business strategy and non-profit organization management, and was the first woman to receive tenure at Yale School of Management.
She received her undergraduate degree from Hofstra University in 1970 and her Ph.D. in economics from Harvard in 1974.She received the first Yale School of Management Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1988 and received this award again in 2008 and 2013. She served as the first woman dean of the Yale School of Management from 2008 to 2011.She was the 2011 winner of the Carolyn Shaw Bell Award from the American Economic Association. In 2018, she was recognized by the Academy of Management with the 2018 Irwin Outstanding Educator Award for Excellence in MBA/Executive Education.
Career
Since 1994, Oster serves as the Independent Director of Welltower Inc, a real estate investment trust that invests mostly in healthcare infrastructure.
Time at Yale
Oster took a $100,000 pay cut from her yearly salary as the dean of the Yale School of Management in 2009 to fund internships for students. The Sharon Oster Professorship, an endowed chair in economics, was announced in 2018.
Selected publications
Oster, Sharon M. (1999). Modern competitive analysis. Oxford University Press.
Oster, Sharon M. (1995). Strategic management for nonprofit organizations: Theory and cases. Oxford University Press.
Oster, Sharon (1982). "Intra-industry structure and the ease of strategic change". The Review of Economics and Statistics. 64 (3): 376–383. doi:10.2307/1925935. JSTOR 1925935.
Milgrom, Paul; Oster, Sharon (1987). "Job discrimination, market forces, and the invisibility hypothesis" (PDF). The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 102 (3): 453–476. doi:10.2307/1884213. JSTOR 1884213.
Oster, Sharon M.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. (1998). "Aging and productivity among economists". Review of Economics and Statistics. 80 (1): 154–156. doi:10.1162/003465398557258.