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Sen Chai is an Associate Professor of Strategy & Organization at McGill University's Desautels Faculty of Management and a Desautels Faculty Scholar. She holds a PhD from Harvard Business School, an MS from Stanford University, and a BEng from McGill University. Her research focuses on innovation processes from ideation to commercialization, emphasizing failure management and AI's impact on creativity. Prior roles include teaching at ESSEC Business School, a postdoc at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and consulting at Deloitte. She is fluent in French and Mandarin, and an avid traveler having visited over 75 countries.
Education:
- PhD in Technology and Operations Management, Harvard Business School
- MS in Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University
- BEng in Electrical Engineering (minor in Management), McGill University
Research interests span innovation ecosystems, strategic collaboration, and temporal coordination in global teams. Her work analyzes how organizations recover from catastrophic failures and leverage AI for idea generation. Recent studies include gender bias in academic citations and temporal brokerage effects in distributed teams.
Publications highlight interdisciplinary approaches to innovation challenges, with notable work on Virgin Galactic crash aftermath, conference networking impacts, and academic-industry partnerships. Her scholarship bridges management theory with practical strategy implementation.
Awards include the prestigious Desautels Faculty Scholar distinction. Teaching focuses on managing innovation and strategy-building through courses like MGPO 460 and MGPO 630.
