I am an Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Yale School of Management and a Faculty Affiliate of the Program on Entrepreneurship, the Computation and Society Initiative, and the Sociology Department. I also co-organize the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Seminar.

I study how evaluation processes shape opportunities in organizations and markets—who gets hired, which startups are funded, who wins awards, and how workers are rated—to explain why some people, ideas, and firms advance while others stall. My research bridges and contributes to scholarship on stratification, entrepreneurship, careers, and the future of work.

In my work, I develop novel organizational theory and test it with rigorous methods, including detailed data from long-term organizational research partnerships, large-scale administrative data, and field and online experiments. A recurring theme is how the structure of evaluation processes—the criteria used, the sequencing of stages, and the information made visible to evaluators—systematically influences outcomes. Current projects map stratification across evaluation stages, examine how AI is used in evaluations, and trace how venture and employer failure shape subsequent careers. A contribution across this work is moving beyond documenting evaluative differences to specifying how and why social evaluations reflect factors other than quality. This approach informs interventions that make these processes fairer and more effective.

My research has been published in Administrative Science Quarterly, American Sociological Review, Management Science, Nature (cover article), Organization Science, and Strategic Management Journal, it has received various accolades, and it has been covered by leading media outlets. In 2024, Thinkers50 named me to its Radar list of 30 thinkers whose ideas will shape the future of management. I have also helped translate my research findings for managers through articles in the Harvard Business Review and Yale Insights. I serve as an Associate Editor at Management Science and on the editorial boards of Administrative Science Quarterly and Organization Science. For more information about my research, see my research page and CV.

In the classroom, I redeveloped the required MBA and EMBA course on entrepreneurship and innovation (Innovator). In 2020, I was recognized as one of the Best 40 Under 40 Professors by Poets & Quants.

I earned my PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management in 2017, and my BA and BS from Providence College in 2007. Before entering academia, I worked in investment banking (e.g., M&A and capital raises) and strategic corporate finance.