Job Market Applications

Details of my Job Market Application are available from my Profile page, Job Market Paper page, Research Papers page, Research Statement (which contains summaries of some of my research papers), Projects page (which details work that is not yet ready for submission to peer-reviewed journals), and my Teaching Statement page.

Download the zip or pdf files:

• Job market packet: zip
• Job market paper (How Start-up Firms Innovate): pdf
• Curriculum Vitae: pdf
• Research Statement: pdf
• Teaching Statement (with teaching evaluations): pdf

Additional research papers are available for download from my Papers page.

About Me

I am seeking tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in the fields of Strategy, Business Economics, and Corporate Finance. I am currently the Innovation Policy Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research under Professors Scott Stern and Josh Lerner. I completed my Ph.D. in business administration, with a dual focus on strategy & business economics (in the BPP group) and finance at the Haas School of Business, U.C. Berkeley, in May of 2012, under the supervision of Professors David Teece, Toby Stuart, Michael Katz, and Bronwyn Hall. I then spent the 2012/2013 academic year as a post-doctoral fellow at the Sauder School of Business, U.B.C., under my long-term mentors Jim Brander and Thomas Hellmann. Full information on my academic qualifications and experience is provide on my Profile page and in my curriculum vitae (pdf).

My Research

My research areas are the financing of entrepreneurship and the economics of innovation. My work consists primarily in the application of industrial organization economics and corporate finance to entrepreneurship and business strategy. I seek to base my work on clearly specified underlying theory. I believe that it contains useful theoretical innovation, although the primary value added is usually empirical -- I generally focus on the use of micro-data in large scale empirical analysis.

I have received three awards for my research to date, including a Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, a Canadian Graduate Scholarship, and a Social Science & Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship. A complete list of my research papers that have either been published or an in the process of submission to peer-reviewed journals is available on Papers page.