About Me

I am an associate professor in the Strategy area at Duke's Fuqua School of Business, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

My research studies the causes and consequences of technological change, with a focus on (i) crisis innovation and innovation policy, (ii) the impacts of automation on firms, workers, and labor markets, and (iii) the management of innovation within organizations. I frequently use historical evidence to study recurrent economic, strategic, and policy questions. My work has been published in leading journals including the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Management Science, and Research Policy, and funded by the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

I received my Ph.D. in economics from UC Berkeley, where I was a National Science Foundation graduate fellow. Prior to graduate school, I worked in management consulting, policy research, and at a high-growth startup. My email address can be found in my CV. Papers are on my research page.