Curtis K. Chan is an Assistant Professor of Management and Organization at Boston College's Carroll School of Management. His research uses ethnographic and qualitative approaches to understand how members of occupations and professions work and handle relational tensions with other experts, managers, clients, and society. His research also considers how these interactions shape and are shaped by social issues like inequality and diversity, control, values, and technology.
He has studied airport security screeners, university career advisers in business schools, Instacart gig-workers, consultants, teachers, and graphic facilitators, with award-winning papers published or conditionally accepted in several 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 a “Teaching Star” distinction. 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.
