Research Areas
Entrepreneurship in innovative industries; industry evolution; role of individuals in firm success; distributed and user innovation; self-organization among individuals; entrepreneurial strategy
Current Projects
Exploration of the role of individuals compared to firms in explaining the development of the computer gaming industry, study of the interaction between hackers and firms in the nascent markets, examination of the ways in which institutions shape individual approaches to innovation
Representative Publications
(with David Edery)
"Changing the Game: How Videogames are Transforming the Business World." Financial Times Press. 2008.
“Establishing Moore's Law.” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, July-September 2006 (Vol. 28, No. 3) pp. 62-75.
“Working with the Underground.” Sloan Management Review. Summer 2005.
Education
PhD, MIT Sloan School of Management, 2010;
MBA, MIT Sloan School of Management, 2004;
BA, Harvard University, 1997
Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
Kauffman Dissertation Fellow, 2007
Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 2009-present.
Other Positions
Co-founder and COO, eMeta Corporation, 1999-2004;
Analyst, Mercer Management Consulting, 1997-1998
