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.
My research examines evaluation processes—where individuals assess the quality of individuals, ideas, or work product—within market and organizational contexts aiming to deepen our empirical and theoretical understanding of stratification, careers, and entrepreneurship, with frequent overlap among these areas. Through this work I develop novel organizational theories and employ rigorous methodologies to address pressing questions in business and society. I explore how the design and structure of evaluation processes shape observed patterns of stratification, how founders and their startups are evaluated, and career transitions, particularly among those connected to entrepreneurial ventures. My research frequently draws upon data collected through research collaborations with various organizations and uses diverse methodologies, including field experiments.
This research has been published in Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, Management Science, Nature, and Organization Science, and various media outlets have covered it; I have also written various pieces for the Harvard Business Review based on this work. For more information about my research, please visit my research page or see my CV.
In 2024, Thinkers50 selected me as one of the 30 people whose ideas will make an important impact on management thinking in the future.
In my teaching, I recently redeveloped the MBA and EMBA core course on entrepreneurship and innovation (Innovator), and I was recognized as one of the Best 40 Under 40 Professors by Poets & Quants in 2020.
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.
