Bio
Dr Eva M Meyersson Milgrom is an American and Swedish social scientist, and since August of 2022 emerita from Stanford University. Eva Meyersson Milgrom is currently working on the book manuscripts: ”Weak Ties, Strong Lives: Reimagining Women’s Relationships After Midlife”, "Intimacy after 60, in search of significance", "Global Organizations, the Matrix of Change", and "How to use firm match data".
Dr Meyersson Milgrom was a senior research scholars and a teacher at Stanford University, and affiliated with the Department of Sociology and Stanford Institute of Economic Policy and SIEPR. She has been a visiting professor at GSB Stanford University, Sloan School of Business MIT, and at the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley. She has been a visiting scholar at Department of Sociology, Harvard University and a guest scholar at Northwestern University NICO, Northwestern institute on Complex Systems November 2008. Between 1988 and 1998 Meyersson Milgrom was a research scholar at the Institute of Industrial Organization (IUI), (today IFN), Stockholm Sweden.
Dr Meyersson Milgrom’s major contributions have mainly been in three areas: corporate governance (executive compensation), 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.
Starting in 2016 Dr Meyersson Milgrom has embarked on two new research areas, one on developing experiment designs and accumulation of skills and one on developing a machine learning tool on analyzing semistructured interviews.
Dr Meyersson Milgrom has been teaching and developed courses such as “An International Comparison of Corporate Governance Systems” and “Global Organizations, the Matrix of Change” in countries like China, Rwanda, Sweden and United States. She has also organized workshops, developed courses and taught classes on “Labor Market Analysis of Extreme Political Violence. The case of suicide missions.”
Dr Meyersson Milgrom is married to Paul R Milgrom and she is the daughter of Per-Martin Meyerson and Ulla Meyerson and has a son Erik G Meyersson, granddaughter Noomi, two bonus children Elana and Joshua Thurston-Milgrom and a bonus grandson Shepherd.