I am an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Yale School of Management, and a Faculty Affiliate of the Program on Entrepreneurship and the Computation and Society Initiative. I also co-organize the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Seminar.

I study how evaluation processes shape opportunities in organizations and markets—who gets hired, which startups are funded, and how workers are rated—to explain why some people, ideas, and firms advance while others stall. My research bridges and contributes to scholarship on stratification, careers, entrepreneurship, and the future of work.

In my work, I develop novel organizational theory and test it with rigorous methods, including detailed platform data (often through firm collaborations), large scale administrative data, and field experiments. A recurring theme is how the structure of evaluation processes—the criteria used, the sequencing of stages, and the information made visible to evaluators—systematically influence outcomes. Current projects map stratification across evaluation stages, examine how AI is used in evaluations, and trace how venture and employer failure shape subsequent careers. The insights from this research help guide the design of fairer, more effective evaluation processes.

My research has been published in Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, Management Science, Nature (cover article), and Organization Science, received various accolades, and has been covered by leading media outlets. In 2024, Thinkers50 named me to its list of 30 thinkers whose ideas will shape the future of management thinking. I have also translated my research findings for managers through articles in Fast Company, Fortune, the Harvard Business Review, and Yale Insights. For more information about my research, see my research page and CV.

In the classroom, I redeveloped the MBA and EMBA required course on entrepreneurship and innovation (Innovator). In 2020, I was recognized as one of the Best 40 Under 40 Professors by Poets & Quants.

I earned my PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management in 2017, and my BA and BS from Providence College in 2007. Before entering academia, I worked in investment banking (e.g., M&A and capital raises) and strategic corporate finance.