Sharon Oster is the Frederick D. Wolfe Professor
of Management and Entrepreneurship at the Yale School
of Management. She is a specialist in competitive
strategy, microeconomic theory, industrial organization,
the economics of regulation and antitrust, and nonprofit
strategy. She has written extensively on the regulation
of business and competitive strategy. Professor Oster's
book, Modern Competitive Analysis, used widely
at management schools, integrates a broad range of
views in its analysis of management strategy and emphasizes
an economic approach to strategic planning. Her second
book, Strategic Management for Nonprofit Organizations,
takes the same economic approach to managing nonprofit
organizations. Professor Oster has consulted widely
to private, public, and nonprofit organizations. Professor
Oster earned a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.
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