Sharon Oster

Sharon Oster (born 1948) is Frederic D. Wolfe Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at Yale School of Management. She is widely known as an economist focusing on business strategy and non-profit organization management. Oster lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with her husband Ray Fair, a professor at Yale College. She served as dean of the Yale School of Management from 2008 to 2011, following Joel M. Podolny's departure for Apple, Inc. and preceding Ted Snyder's arrival from the Booth School of Business. She is the mother of Emily Oster, an economist at the University of ChicagoStephen Fair and John Oster. She received her undergraduate degree from Hofstra University in 1970 and her PhD from Harvard in 1974.


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