Resources

About Daniel

Daniel is an Assistant Professor of management at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business.

Daniel specializes in strategic management, innovation, and organizational design.

His teaching spans various levels, including MBA and Executive MBA programs, emphasizing strategy and competitive advantage. In his work, Daniel integrate generative AI into his research & teaching and serve as a member of the Drexel University Standing Committee on Artificial Intelligence. Recently, he received an appointment as senior fellow of The Wharton School’s Mack Institute of Technology Management.

Daniel’s research extends to organizational design in the financial services and US hospital industries. In addition, he develops computer simulation models to study cognition, complex decision-making, and innovation, utilizing algorithms informed by psychology and neuroscience studies as effective, simplified representations of human learning processes. Many of these algorithms build the basic foundation of prominent AI models, such as neural networks that underly large language models. His findings have been published in prestigious academic journals and his work on mental models, learning, and decision-making earned him and his collaborators several prestigious awards.

Resources

Nov 2023

ACME Company

Journal of Organization Design 13

Albert, Daniel, What do you mean by organizational structure? Acknowledging and harmonizing differences and commonalities in three prominent perspectives.

Aug 2023

Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings

Albert, Daniel, Searching under multiple goals: exploring the role of corporate social responsibility heuristics.

Jan 2022

Organization Science

Albert, Daniel, and Siggelkow, Nicolaj, Architectural Search and Innovation.

Sep 2018

Organization Science 29

Albert, Daniel, Organizational Module Design and Architectural Inertia: Evidence from Structural Recombination of Business Divisions.

Apr 2015

Academy of Management Review 40

Albert, Daniel, Kreutzer, Markus, and Lechner, Christoph, Resolving the paradox of interdependency and strategic renewal in activity systems.

2021

Chapters

Oxford University Press

Albert, Daniel, and Ganco, Martin, “Landscape Models of Complex Change.” Oxford Handbook of Organization Change and Innovation, Ed. Van de Ven, A.H. & Pool. M.S. Oxford, U.K.

Jul 2023

Proceedings

Academy of Management Conference May 2023

Albert, Daniel, and Csaszar, Felipe, Searching under Multiple Goals: Exploring the Role of Corporate Social Responsibility Heuristics

Aug 2022

Proceedings

Academy of Management May 2022

Albert, Daniel, Martignoni, Dirk, Menon, Anoop, and Siggelkow, Nicolaj, The power of open-minded simplicity in mental models.

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