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Eva M Meyersson Milgrom

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Eva Maria Meyersson Milgrom is a Swedish-born American social scientist publishing both in economic and sociology academic journals. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology at Stockholm University in 1992.

Eva is a senior research scholar and a teacher at Stanford University, and affiliated with the Department of Sociology and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, SIEPR. She has been a visiting professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business, MIT Sloan School of Management and the Haas School of Business. She has been a visiting scholar at the Department of Sociology, Harvard University and a guest scholar at Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO), Northwestern University in November 2008. Between 1988 and 1998 Meyersson Milgrom was a research scholar at the Institute of Industrial Organization (IUI), (today IFN), Stockholm, Sweden.

Major contributions

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Dr Meyersson Milgrom's major contributions have mainly been in three areas: corporate governance (executive compensation, and the significance of ownership structure), organization and labor markets (wage-, promotion- and productivity, gender differences) and social networks (team composition, compensation of executive teams, firm performance). Dr Meyersson Milgrom has served as an expert witness on executive compensation and on board composition. She has also consulted on topics such as gender equity, how to organize for changing strategy, and the problems with ad hoc groups.

Dr Meyersson Milgrom has been teaching and developed courses such as “An International Comparison of Corporate Governance Systems”[1] and “Global Organizations, the Matrix of Change”[2] in countries like China, Rwanda, Sweden and United States. She has also organised workshops, developed courses and taught classes on “Labor Market Analysis of Extreme Political Violence"[3] and on "The Dynamics of Social, Political, and Economic Institutions".[4]

Family

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Dr Meyersson Milgrom is married to Paul R Milgrom, winner of the 2020 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. She is the daughter of Ulla and Per-Martin Meyerson and has a son, Erik Meyersson, a granddaughter Noomi, two step-children Elana and Joshua Thurston-Milgrom and a step-grandson Shepherd Thurston-Milgrom.

Selected published articles

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Books

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  • Ägarmakt och omvandling. Den svenska modellen utmanad, Ed Hans Tson Söderstrom, Ekonomirådsrapport 2003 Stockholm:SNS English summary, The Swedish Corporate Governance System, and the European Challenge. ISBN 978-91-7150-898-0
  • Staten och bolagskapitalet om aktiv styrning av statliga bolag, 'State as a corporate owner' with Susanne Lindh, Document ID: Ds 1998:64
  • Kompensationssystem i svenska börsnoterade företag, 'Compensation contracts in Swedish publicly traded firms' 1994 Almqvist och Wicksell, ISBN 91-7204-470-5.5

References

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  1. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-08-17. Retrieved 2016-07-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-08-17. Retrieved 2016-07-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ A Comparative and Analytical Approach to Terrorism
  4. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-08-17. Retrieved 2016-07-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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