FACULTY

M. Diane Burton, Ph.D., MIT Sloan School of Management


Diane Burton is Assistant Professor of Management at the Sloan School of Management at MIT, where she is affiliated with the Entrepreneurship Center and the Institute for Work and Employment Research, and teaches "Designing and Leading the Entrepreneurial Organization" and "Strategic Human Resource Management." Professor Burton studies employment relations and organizational change in entrepreneurial companies, and the careers of technology entrepreneurs and executives. She has published articles in a number of academic journals including American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Sociology, and the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organizations. Prior to joining Sloan, Professor Burton taught on the faculty at the Harvard Business School and served as a lecturer and researcher at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Professor Burton earned degrees from Carnegie Mellon and Harvard Universities before receiving her Ph.D. in Sociology at Stanford University.