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Biography

Tim Gubler joined the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University in 2019. He is an Associate Professor of Strategy (Alice Belle Jones Fellowship) whose research lies at the intersection of strategy, human capital, and organizational design. His work examines how organizations mobilize human effort and judgment, with a particular focus on how incentives, motivation, and organizational systems shape individual productivity and organizational performance in knowledge- and skill-intensive work. Across a range of real-world settings, his research highlights how incentive structures influence not only effort, but also attention, meaning, and prioritization—especially when goals conflict, measurement is imperfect, and the stakes are high. His work helps organizations and institutions design systems that more effectively align incentives, judgment, and purpose in order to create and capture value through the people they employ.

To date, his research has examined a range of real-world organizational contexts, including frontline commercial laundry workers, residential real estate markets, emergency medical service crews and agencies (paramedics), moonlighting workers in France, and the U.S. federal government. His work has been published in leading academic journals and has been recognized with multiple awards, including a Strategic Management Society Best Paper prize (2025), a Distinguished Paper Prize from the Academy of Management (2025), the Sumantra Ghoshal Best Paper Award (Academy of Management, 2017) and the Robert J. Litschert Best Doctoral Student Paper Award (Academy of Management, 2015). His research has also been featured in major media outlets such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, NPR, USA Today, Huffington Post, and Business Insider.

Tim was elected as a Representative-at-Large for the Strategic Management Society’s Human Capital Interest Group in 2021 and joined the editorial board of Organization Science as a Senior Editor in 2023. He earned his PhD in Business Strategy from Washington University in St. Louis and previously served on the faculty at the University of California, Riverside. Prior to pursuing his doctoral studies, he earned a degree in economics from Brigham Young University and worked as an electrician and project manager in his family’s electrical contracting business—an experience that continues to inform his research and teaching.

At BYU, Tim teaches strategy to executives, MBA students, and undergraduates using experiential, application-driven methods that emphasize real-world decision making under uncertainty. Outside of work, he enjoys spending time with his wife and five children, exploring the outdoors, mountain biking, scuba diving, skiing, working with his hands, and playing music.

Additional information, including his current CV and recent research, is available at www.timothygubler.com.

Education

• Business Strategy, Washington University in St Louis, 2015
• Business Administration, Washington University in St Louis, 2013
• Economics, Brigham Young University, 2008

Group Affiliations

• Informs — 2018
• Academy of Management — 2013
• Strategic Management Society — 2013

Selected Publications

• "No Margin, No Mission? How Emergency Medical Service Crews Attend to Competing Financial and Social Goals on 9-1-1 Calls", Strategic Management Journal, Edition 13, Volume 46, Pages 3118-3151, 2025
• "Motivational Spillovers in Repeated Tasks: How Critical 9-1-1 Calls Influence Crew Future Call Performance", Proceedings of the Eighty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Academy of Management, Sonia Taneja, 2025
• "Anchoring on Historical Round Number Reference Points: Evidence from Durable Goods Resale Prices", Organization Science, Edition 5, Volume 35, Pages 1839-1863, 2023
• "Specialized Human Capital in Professional Services: Task Specificity and Firm Performance", Proceedings of the Eightieth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Guclu Antinc, 2020
• "Socially Advantaged? How Social Affiliations Influence Access to Valuable Service Professional Transactions", Strategic Management Journal, Edition 13, Volume 40, Pages 2287-2314, 2019
• "Connected, but Qualified? Social Affiliations, Human Capital, and Service Professional Performance", Organization Science, Edition 5, Volume 30, Pages 912-936, 2019
• "Doing Well by Making Well: The Impact of Corporate Wellness Programs on Employee Productivity", Management Science, Edition 11, Volume 64, Pages 4967-4987, 2018
• "Connected, but Qualified? Social Affiliations, Human Capital, and Service Professional Performance", Proceedings of the Seventy-seventh Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Guclu Atinc, 2017
• "Motivational Spillovers from Awards: Crowding Out in a Multitasking Environment", Organization Science, Edition 2, Volume 27, Pages 286-303, 2016
• "Social Affiliations and Performance of Experts in Organizations", Proceedings of the Seventy-fifth Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, John Humphreys, 2015
• "Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Retirement Planning Predicts Employee Health Improvements", Psychological Science, Edition 9, Volume 25, Pages 1822-1830, 2014
• "Agency Problems", Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management, Palgrave Macmillan, David Teece and Pie Augier, 2013
• "Trust and the Economic Theory of the Firm", Handbook of Advances in Trust Research, Edward Elgar, Aks Zaheer and Reinhard Bachman, 2013
• "Economic Burden", Work and Cancer Survivors, Springer, Michael Feuerstein, 2009

Experience

Academic - Post-Secondary

• Assistant Professor of Management, University of California, Riverside, 2015–2019

Awards

• Distinguished Paper Award in Strategic Leadership, TMT, and Corporate Governance, The Strategic Management Division of the Academy of Management, 2025
• Best Paper Award, Strategic Management Society, 2024
• Best Paper Award Finalist, Strategic Management Society, 2024
• BYU Management Department Research Award, BYU Management Department, 2023
• Best Paper Award, Western Academy of Management, 2022
• Sumantra Ghoshal Best Paper Award, Academy of Management, 2017
• MBA Golden Apple Teaching Award, University of California, Riverside, 2016
• Robert J. Litschert Best Doctoral Student Paper Award, Academy of Management, 2015
• Moog Scholar, Washington University in St. Louis, 2013

Languages

• Chinese (Mandarin)

BYU Citizenship

• MBA Program Director Search Committee — Committee/Council Member — 2025
• Research Committee — Committee/Council Member — 2025
• Expectation Document Committee — Committee/Council Member — 2023–2025
• BYU Marriott MBA Operating Committee — Committee/Council Member — 2024
• BYU Pre-PhD Scholars Database Administrator — Committee/Council Chair — 2021–2023
• BYU STRAT 392 Coordinator — Committee/Council Member — 2020–2023
• Research Committee — Committee/Council Member — 2022
• Winter Strategy Conference — Conference-related Role — 2022
• BYU Research Seminar Series Organizer — Committee/Council Chair — 2021
• BYU Management Seminar Series Co-organizer — Committee/Council Member — July 2020–July 2021
• BYU Management Scholars Database Administrator — 2020
• BYU Strategy Pre-PhD Student Faculty Advisor — Faculty Advisor — 2020
• BYU/UofU Winter Strategy Conference Paper Selection Committee — 2019–2020

Professional Citizenship

• Organization Science, Editor, Associate Editor, February 2023
• Strategic Management Journal, Editorial Review Board Member, 2023
• Academy of Management Journal, Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, 2021
• Production and Operations Management, Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, 2021
• Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, 2017
• Administrative Science Quarterly, Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, 2016
• Management Science, Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, 2015
• BYU Winter Strategy Conference, Conference-Related Role, 2023–2024
• Strategic Management Society, Conference-Related Role, 2023–July 2024
• Strategic Management Society, Officer (specify in Other), January 2021–December 2023
• Organization Science, Editorial Review Board Member, May 2021–February 2023
• Organization Science, Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, 2015–May 2021
• Strategic Management Journal, Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, 2015–May 2021
• Strategic Management Society Human Capital Interest Group, Conference-Related Role, 2019–2019