Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
366 Galvez Street
Stanford, .CA 94305-6015
Ph: 504-864-2498
EDUCATION
PhD Business and Public Policy, Walter A. Haas School of Business, UC-Berkeley, 2001
MS Industrial Engineering, BA International Relations, Stanford University
POSITIONS HELD
Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University A.B. Freeman School of Business, 2016-2017
Lecturer, Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business, 2015- 2016
Researcher, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), 2004-2016
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Case Western Reserve University, 2010 – 2011
Research Fellow, Sloan Software Industry Center, Carnegie Mellon University, 2003-4
Research Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), 2001-2003
Lecturer, Program in Public Policy, Stanford University, 2001-2003
NON-ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Violinist, Stratos Chamber Orchestra
Manufacturing Process Engineer, Solectron
Information Systems Business Analyst, Apple Computer
Application Software Developer, PSI GmbH, Berlin, Germany
HONORS
2003 Sloan Foundation Industry Studies Fellowship
2001 Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research Fellowship
2000 Strategic Management Society’s Ph.D. Award
Finalist, Academy of Management’s Business Policy and Strategy Division Dissertation Award
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Outsourcing and Firm Strategy
Management of Technology and Innovation
Nonprofit Organization and Competition
Venture Capital and Financial Markets
Methods: Applied Econometrics, Contract Theory, Case Study
TEACHING
Strategic Management, Freeman School of Business, Tulane University
Corporate and Cooperative Strategy, Freeman School of Business, Tulane University
Capstone Strategy, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University
PP200 Senior Research Seminar in Public Policy, Stanford University
International Business, Walter A. Haas School of Business, UC-Berkeley
DISSERTATION
Examines why nonprofits exist and how they compete with for profits by applying a consumer make-or-buy model, contract theory and empirical analysis. Three industries are studied: the classical performing arts, software (open source software), and hospitals.
Dissertation committee: David Mowery, Paul Gertler, Ben Hermalin, Bronwyn Hall.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Organized Stanford Social Science and Technology Seminar, 2002-2016
Sloan Foundation Industry Studies Early Career Development Committee, 2004-2008
National Science Foundation review panel in the Digital Society and Technology program, February, 2003.
MEMBERSHIPS
Academy of Management, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), American Economic Association, Industry Studies Association (ISA), Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics (SIOE) (formerly International Society for New Institutional Economics (ISNIE))
PUBLICATIONS
“What goes on under the hood? How Engineers Innovate in the Automotive Supply Chain,"
with Susan Helper, forthcoming book chapter, NBER.
“The Political Economy of Long-Term Technological Stasis: The Case of Saharan Salt Mining",
with Ekundayo Shittu and Seraphima Rombe-Shulman, The Extractive Industries and Society, 2015
“Does it Matter Who Your Buyer Is? The Role of Nonprofit ‘Mission’ in the Market for Corporate Control of Hospitals,”
with Paul Gertler, Journal of Law and Economics, 52:2, May 2009.
“Ringing the Bell on the NYSE: Might a Nonprofit Stock Exchange Have Been Efficient?”
with Stephen F. Diamond, Duquesne Business Law Journal, Spring, 2007.
“The Phantom Profits of the Opera: Nonprofit Ownership in the Arts as a Make-Buy Decision,”
Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 17(2), 2001
UNDER REVIEW
"Two-Sided Markets, Information Asymmetry, and US Stock Exchanges,"
with Steve Diamond, under review at the Journal of Industrial Economics
“Supplier Innovation Strategy: Transactional Hazards and Innovation in the Automotive Supply Chain” with Daniel Snow and Susan Helper, submitted to Organization Science.
WORKING PAPERS
“Hostages and the Emergence of US Venture Capital,” 2016
Explores the origin of modern venture capital and its use of syndication networks. Empirical evidence suggests that hostage exchange was used to establish networks.
“Information Asymmetry and Platform Strategy,"
with Steve Diamond, 2016
“The Natural Limits of Open Source Software,” 2014
Proposes a consumer model of open source software development that helps define the limits of the open source phenomenon. Winner of the Strategic Management Society’s PhD Award
“Foreign Aid Allocation: Evidence from Spain”
with Natalia Martin Cruz, 2013
Examines political and humanitarian reasons for allocating foreign aid using newly available data from Spain
“Schumpeter Meets Cournot: Separating the Effects of Firm Size and Industry Structure on Innovation and Technology Choice”