ABOUT ME
I am an Assistant Professor in Management and Organizations at NYU Stern. My research interests are decision-making practices in entrepreneurship and innovation, with a focus on inclusion and inequality. I conduct field experiments and field research, and leverage my previous work in varied entrepreneurship research, policy, and founder roles to inform my research.
RESEARCH
I am fascinated by how individuals and organizations create and scale innovative solutions to benefit users and drive economic growth. However, the overwhelming concentration of resources funneled into demographically homogenous founders limits the benefits of diverse startup growth and innovation. I examine how to broaden these benefits by building deep relationships with development finance institutions, investment organizations and startups, and I have developed expertise in both field research and field experiments to explore my research questions.
PUBLICATIONS
*Making Intuition Count. 2022. Academy of Management Proceedings. (Best paper in OMT at Academy of Management.)
Governing for growth in scope: Cultivating a dynamic understanding of how peer production collectives evolve. 2019. In M. O’Neil, C. Pentzold, and S. Toupin (Eds.) The Handbook of Peer Production. Wiley Handbooks in Communication and Media Series (with R. Karp and S. O’Mahony)
*Opening the aperture: Explaining how advice interactions can inform entrepreneurial strategy. 2023. Organization Science (with S. O’Mahony and S. Cohen)
WORKING PAPERS
*The Effect of Changing Investment Organizations’ Evaluation Practices on Gender Disparities in Funding Innovation. 2024. (Won Strategic Management Society Best Conference Paper and Best PhD Paper 2022. Won “Rising Star” award – runner up – at Industry Studies Association.) (with S. Lall, M. Goldstein, and J. Montalvao)
*Structuring intuition: How investment organizations can change their evaluation processes to assess diverse innovators. 2022.
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
Consideration or differentiation? The role of impact-oriented accelerators in the equity investment market (with L. Chen, S Lall and P. Roberts)
*Socrates revisited. Examining the effects of investor’ questions on investment decisions and entrepreneurial firms
*Moving upstream: How can investors diversify their pipeline of high technology founders?
*Founder-market fit: How underrepresented founders leverage their deep knowledge of markets and develop their ventures (with C. Li and S. O’Mahony)
Note: * represents first author
TEACHING
I have taught strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship courses at the undergraduate and graduate level.
I look forward to teaching courses such as Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Organizational Behavior at undergraduate and graduate levels, and in Field/Qualitative Research Methods, Organization Theory, Strategy and Innovation, and Entrepreneurship at the doctoral level.
Summer 2021
Design Thinking. MBA. Teaching Assistant – Questrom School of Business, Boston University.
Fall 2020
Organizing for Design and Innovation. Undergraduate. Lecturer. Teaching evaluation 4.8/5. Questrom School of Business, Boston University.
Summer 2020
Design Thinking. EMBA. Teaching Assistant – Questrom School of Business, Boston University.
Summer 2014
Evaluation methods. MBA. Guest lecturer – Georgetown University.
Fall 2012
High growth entrepreneurship. MBA. Guest lecture – Fundacao Getulio Vargas.
AWARDS
RESEARCH
Organization Science / INFORMS Dissertation Proposal Competition Finalist. 2022 (From 8 of 100+ proposals)
Industry Studies Association’s Giarratani Rising Star Award – Runner Up. 2022
AOM Best Paper (top 10%), OMT Division. 2022
Strategic Management Society’s Winner, Overall Best Paper at the Annual Conference. 2022
SMS ‘s Winner Best Paper by a PhD author. 2022
Questrom School of Business Diversity Equity and Inclusion Student Award. 2022
Questrom School of Business Outstanding Research by a PhD Student Award. 2022
SRF Research Dissertation award. 2020
Finalist for Kauffman Best Paper in Entrepreneurial Cognition. 2020
TEACHING, SERVICE AND FUNDING
Outstanding Reviewer for the TIM Division for AOM 2023
Best Teaching Award (PhD), from Questrom School of Business 2021
Outstanding Reviewer for the STR Division for AOM 2021
Awarded grant from SGB Evidence Fund – International Growth Center, LSE, and ANDE. $25,000. 2019
Wrote proposal and designed research for $500,000 grant from International Finance Corporation / World Bank awarded to field research site. 2019
Wrote proposal and designed research for $200,000 grant from Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs awarded to field research site. 2019
PRACTICE
RESEARCH, POLICY AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Previously I worked in varied entrepreneurship research and policy in roles in funding organizations such as the Kauffman Foundation, with governments and international organizations such as the UN and the OECD, in nonprofits, and as an entrepreneur.
I build deep relationships with practitioners, which inform many aspects of my research: setting; my ability to develop relationships with entrepreneurs; identifying research questions and design; and developing policy recommendations.
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