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I hold a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard Business School and Harvard’s economics department. My research focuses on how firms and employees create and capture value and reputations, relationships, and other signals of quality; on entrepreneurial entry and exit; and on ways that firms benefit from philanthropy and the creation of public goods.  My research has been published in Management Science, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming), Review of Economic Studies, RAND Journal of Economics, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (forthcoming), Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, and Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization. Prior to academia, I worked as a strategy consultant at Monitor Company and as an economist in the President’s Council of Economic Advisers.

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