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News
Recent publications Helpful behavior and the durability of collaborative ties with Sampsa Samila and Alexander Oettl (Organization Science) Experimentation and startup performance: Evidence from A/B Testing with Rembrand Koning and Aaron K. Chatterji (Management Science) Data exchanges among firms with Morad Elsaify (Published Open Access in Digital Business) New and updated working papers Which Businesses […]
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Papers by topic
Here are my published and working papers organized by topical area. Broadly speaking, my research falls into just four categories (with some overlap): Entrepreneurship, Social Networks/Peer Effects, Labor Markets, and Digitization. Entrepreneurship The Critical Eye: Does Improving Judgment Lead to Better Ideas? (with Aaron Chatterji, Rick Larrick and Rorger Masclans) Working Paper Which Businesses Enroll […]
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Fuqua Strategy PhD Program
Apply to Fuqua’s Strategy PhD Program Come join the Strategy PhD program at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. We’re looking for talented, driven, and curious students who want to become the next generation of scholars and thinkers about the role of innovation, entrepreneurship and strategy in the economy. Below in the attached […]
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Data exchanges among firms
Available at Digital Business (with Morad Elsaify) Firms are collecting more data—about their operations, customers, and markets—in order to improve performance. Some of this data has value beyond a firm’s boundary and thus can create value for other firms. Yet, we have relatively few facts about the growing data exchange between firms, its participants, and […]
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Network hiring, firm performance and growth
Available on SSRN (with Ines Black) Network hiring—i.e. the preference for hiring workers who are referred by existing employees or have shared affiliations with them—is a prevalent practice across many industries. Considerable research shows hiring within a firm’s network provides soft information about potential hires as well as informal mechanisms of control once they join […]
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The politics of experimentation
Available on SSRN (with Todd Hall) Many startups have embraced formal experimentation—i.e., A/B testing—to improve the performance of their products and services. Experimentation, some have argued, should democratize innovation inside organizations by creating a platform to rigorously test new ideas, regardless of origin. In this article, we argue that experimentation’s promise hinges on having the […]
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Hunting for talent: Firm-driven labor market search in America
SSRN Working Paper (with Ines Black and Rembrand Koning) Research suggests that increased digitization of the labor market combined with the changing demand for skill has altered the job-search process. In this article, we argue that these changes have led to increased investments in firm-driven search for talent (or `outbound recruiting’). We investigate this question […]
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Designing social networks: Joint tasks and the formation and endurance of network ties
Journal of Organization Design, (9)4, 2020 (with Rembrand Koning) Can managers influence the formation of organizational networks? In this article, we evaluate the effect of joint tasks on the creation of network ties with data from a novel field experiment with 112 aspiring entrepreneurs. During the study, we randomized individuals to a set of 15 […]
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Experimentation and startup performance: Evidence from A/B testing
Management Science (with Rembrand Koning and Aaron Chatterji) Recent scholarship argues that experimentation should be the organizing principle for entrepreneurial strategy. Experimentation leads to organizational learning, which drives improvements in firm performance. We investigate this proposition by exploiting the time-varying adoption of A/B testing technology, which has drastically reduced the cost of testing business ideas. […]
Sharique Hasan 