My research and teaching interests are at the intersection of entrepreneurship and competitive strategy.

 

In my research on entrepreneurship, I study the strategies that startups use to successfully introduce their first products to the market, compete with established firms, secure funding, and eventually exit or divest their operations. On the competitive strategy side, I explore the strategic interactions between startups and incumbents as well as between companies with different resource endowments. In my research, I frequently combine formal theory with large-scale empirical analysis. In terms of research design, I pay particular attention to the problem of causality and rely on external shocks or field experiments to identify the theorized mechanisms.

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My work has been published in Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, Organization Science, and MIT Sloan Management Review.