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

 

In the realm of entrepreneurship, I investigate the strategies that start-ups can employ to successfully introduce their initial product to the market, compete with established firms, secure funding, and eventually divest their operations. On the competitive strategy side, I examine the strategic interactions between start-ups and incumbents, as well as between companies with varying resources (e.g., weak vs strong, specialized vs fungible). 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.