About Me

I am an Associate Professor of Business Administration at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and an expert in innovation strategy and policy.

My research spans three verticals for innovation-driven change: economic, health, and national security. Major themes in my work have included (i) the evolution and impacts of US innovation policy, including of ongoing policy changes, (ii) the organization and impacts of crisis-driven innovation, and (iii) how firms, workers, and economies adapt to large-scale automation. I frequently use historical examples of industries undergoing significant change to study recurrent and modern economic, strategic, and policy questions.

My research has been published in leading academic outlets such as the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Management Science, and Research Policy; covered in national and international outlets including the New York Times, NPR, The Atlantic, Vox, The Economist, and Harvard Business Review, as well as podcasts such as NPR's Planet Money and Freakonomics Radio; presented to Congressional representatives and staff, the Department of Defense, and the OECD; and cited by the White House and Congress, in several federal court cases, and by numerous industry associations, think tanks, and international policy organizations. My work is or has previously been 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 the University of California, Berkeley in 2015 after working in the private sector. Prior to joining the Fuqua School of Business I was a professor at Harvard Business School.

My email address can be found in my CV. Papers can be found using the navigation bar at the top of this page.