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I am best known for papers on tech entrepreneurship, innovation, and venture capital. My current research agenda is most focused on large-scale labor market data and the observable effects of gen AI on different dimensions of professional, scientific, and white collar work, as well as the myriad implications of AI for corporate organization and strategy. Throughout my career, I have had the immesurably good fortune of working with an outstanding set of students and collaborators. A partial list of current and prior collaborators includes Mathijs de Vaan, Yanbo Wang, Weiyi Ng, Olav Sorenson, Adam Kleinbaum, Matthew Bothner, Pierre Azoulay, Brian Reschke, Waverly Ding, Sameer Srivastava, Chris Liu, and Joel Podolny. The links below will take you to many of my peer-reviewed articles.
Publications
Referral Triads, ASQ, 2025
Third parties who refer clients to expert service providers help clients navigate market uncertainty by curating well-tailored matches between clients and experts and by facilitating post-match trust. We argue that these two functions often entail trade-offs because they require referrers to activate network relationships with different experts
Gender in the Markets for Expertise, ASR, 2022
Stratification in professional careers arises in part from interpersonal dynamics in clientexpert dyads. To reduce perceived uncertainty in judgments of the quality of experts, clients may rely on ascriptive characteristics of experts and on pairwise, relational factors to assess the advice they receive. Two such characteristics, expert gender and client-expert gender concordance, may lead to differences in clients’ trust in expert advice.
Acquired employees versus hired employees: Retained or turned over? Strat Management Jrnl, 2022
Thousands of acquisitions of technology companies result in the de facto hiring of myriad individuals into new employers every year. We analyze the effects of such deals on acquired employee (AE) retention relative to a matched sample of directly hired employees (HEs) joining the same acquirers in the same year
Fraud and Innovation, ASQ 2021
We show that fraudulent firms allocate resources differently than honest companies. Resources obtained through fraudulent means are likely to be viewed as unearned gains and are less likely to be invested in productive activities, such as recruiting talent.
Does Intra-household Contagion Cause an Increase in Prescription Opioid Use? ASR, 2019
Opioid use claims many thousands of lives each year. This article considers the diffusion of prescription opioid (PO) use within family households as one potential culprit of the proliferation of these medications. In an analysis of hundreds of millions of medical claims and almost 14 million opioid prescriptions in one state between 2010 and 2015, we show that the use of POs spreads within family households.
- Status Spillovers The Effect of Status-Conferring Prizes
- Social Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching
- Who Cooks the Books in China, and Does it Pay
- An Intraorganizational Ecology of Individual Attainment
- Positions and Rewards - The allocation of resources
- Network Responsiveness - The Social Structural Microfoundations
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Matthew Effect or
Fable - Inside the Black Box of the Corporate Staff
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From Bench to
Board
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Discretion Within
Constraint - Strategic alliances, venture capital, and exit decisions
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Board
interlocks - The Impact of Academic Patenting On the Rate
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Vertical Alliance
Networks - Network Responsiveness - The Social Structural Microfoundations
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Network Effects in the
Governance -
Financial Contracting in
Biotech - Competitive Crowding and Risk Taking in a Tournamentpdf
- The determinants of faculty patenting behavior
- When do scienitsts become entrepreneurs
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Gender Differences in
Patenting - Status Differentiation and the Cohesion
- Liquidity Events and the Geographic Distribution
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The Geography of
Opportunity - Organizational Endowments and the Performance
- Syndication Networks and the Spatial Distribution
- Avenues of Attainment - Occupational Demography
- Interorganizational alliances and the performance of firms
- Aging, Obsolescence and Organizational Innovation
- A Structural Perspective on Organizational Innovation
- Interorganizational Endorsements and the Performance
- Network Positions and Propensities to Collaborate
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Local search and the
evolution -
Networks, Knowledge, and
Niches - A Role-Based Ecology of Technological Change