Ariel Dora Stern

Ariel Dora Stern serves as the Poronui Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, Harvard University, and holds a fellowship at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) in the Firms and Markets Department. Her dual institutional affiliation bridges academic research in business administration with economic policy analysis at a leading European research institute.

Her research centers on the strategic behavior of firms within competitive market environments, with core interests spanning business strategy formulation, organizational economic structures, and industrial organization dynamics. Stern investigates how firm-level decisions influence market competition and broader economic outcomes, emphasizing empirical analysis of corporate behavior and market mechanisms.