Elizabeth Long Lingo is a Research Associate at the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University. Elizabeth completed her Ph.D. in Harvard University’s joint program in Organizational Behavior and Sociology. Her work bridges applied research on negotiations with ethnographic research on how market-based projects are managed in practice. Elizabeth conducted a two-year study of Country music producers and has developed a theory of nexus work to explain how producers manage and integrate the relationships, resources, and perspectives of the multiple actors involved in their Country music projects. Findings from this study may be generalizable to other types of nexus actors engaged in market-based projects in cultural industries.
Elizabeth was recognized as a graduate fellow at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School in 2003-2004. She has consulted to Fortune 500 companies on issues of trust, risk taking and speaking up. Additionally, Elizabeth has taught MBA Negotiations at the Owen Business School and has written teaching cases and notes for Harvard Business School and the University of Michigan. She is currently preparing her work for publication.