

Fulton Hall 424A
Email: opazo@bc.edu
“Managing People & Organizations”, “Negotiations”
Organizational behavior and Theory; Creativity and Innovation; Culture; and Negotiations
Pilar Opazo is an Assistant Professor of the Practice at the Carroll School of Management, Boston College. Herresearch interests include organizational behavior,innovation and creativity, cultural sociology, negotiations, and qualitative methods. Her research has been supported by the Fulbright Commission and by a grant from Telefonica R&D, Spain’s major telecommunications company.
Prior to Boston College, Pilar was aLecturer at the Graduate School of Columbia and a Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
She is theauthor ofAppetite for Innovation(Columbia University Press) and the co-author of two Spanish-language volumes,Communications in OrganizationsԻNegotiation: Competing or Collaborating.
Pilar's research has been published inthe peer-reviewed academic journalsOrganization Studies, Sociological Theory, Poetics, Cultural Sociology, Food, Culture & Society, Research in Sociology of Organizations, and International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science.
Her bookAppetite for Innovation(Columbia University Press) uses ethnographic methods to examine the organization of creativity and the nature of radical innovation by examining the case of “elBulli,” the avant-garde restaurant directed by Chef Ferran Adria that has revolutionized the gastronomy industry.
She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia University, New York, and a BA from the Catholic University of Chile, her home country.
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