Markus Baer
| Markus Baer | |
|---|---|
Washington University | |
| Born | Dillenburg, Germany |
| 🏳️ Nationality | German |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Justus-Liebig University (M.A. 2000) University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Ph.D. 2007) |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| 🌐 Website | My Olin Website |
Markus Baer (born March 27, 1973 in Dillenburg is a German organizational psychologist and professor of organizational behavior at the Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis. He studies creativity and innovation in organizations. In 2011, he was rated as one of the world's best 40 business school professors under the age of 40 by Poets and Quants.[1] From 2016 to 2019 he served as associate editor for the Academy of Management Journal, a leading academic journal in the field of management.[2]
Biography
Baer grew up in Langgöns, Germany, outside of Gießen. He studied psychology at the Justus-Liebig University in Gießen and at the North Carolina State University in Raleigh. He completed his master's thesis on the implementation of process innovations under Michael Frese, graduating from the Justus-Liebig University as a M.A. in psychology (Diplompsychologe) in 2000. During this time, he worked as a consultant, primarily for Opel Automobile GmbH. He was one of the founding members of Evalue Consult—a boutique consultancy founded by Sabine Remdisch and specializing in the evaluation of training and development initiatives. He emigrated to the United States in 2000. He earned his Ph.D. in organizational behavior from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he studied under Greg Oldham in 2007.[3]
He was appointed assistant professor of organizational behavior at the Olin Business School in 2006, promoted to associate professor in 2014, and promoted to full professor in 2020.
Research
Baer's research focuses primarily on innovation and all of its subordinate activities—problem formulation, creativity, idea selection, and implementation. He is best known for his work on creativity, identifying some of the critical social-contextual factors shaping it. Along with Jackson Nickerson and Kurt Dirks, he wrote a foundational article on the importance of problem formulation in the context of strategic problems and decisions.[4] The paper won the Olin Award in 2009.[5]
Teaching and Speaking
Baer is an acclaimed teacher and speaker. At the Olin Business School, he won the prestigious Undergraduate Reid Teaching Award three years in a row.[6] He teaches a wide variety of courses, both domestically as well as internationally in China (Fudan University, Shanghai) and in India (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai). Since 2013, he has been working with the executive education program of the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C. for which he teaches a nationwide audience of government executives. He also has taught at various government agencies directly, including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Department of the Interior (DOI), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI). He has given more than 100 talks at international conferences, universities, and associations.
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