Research

Job Market Paper

• Tapping into Scientific Talent: The Rise of Corporate and Public R&D in Japan's Chemical Industry [Draft]. 

  • Winner: SMS Annual Conference 2026 Best Conference PhD Paper Prize

Published Papers

• If We Build It, We Will Come: Institution Development in Academia and the Evolution of Career Choices by Top Talent during Japan’s Industrialization [NBER], (with Serguey Braguinsky and Rajshree Agarwal). Management Science (conditionally accepted). 

• From Perfect to Practical: Partial Identification Methods for Causal Inference in Strategic Management Research [SSRN], (with Justin Frake, Anthony Gibbs, Brent Goldfarb, Evan Starr, and Shotaro Yamaguchi). Strategic Management Journal, 2025. 

• Do Firms Value Court Enforceability of Noncompete Agreements? A Revealed Preference Approach [SSRN], (with Michael Lipsitz and Evan Starr). Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024.  

  • Winner: SMS Annual Conference 2023 Competitive Strategy Interest Group Best Proposal Award for Rigor in Research

  • Media Coverage: [Slate] [Cascade PBS]

Working Papers

• Who Becomes an Inventor? The (Important) Role of Knowledge Absorption from Higher Technical Education [Draft], (with Shotaro Yamaguchi, Serguey Braguinsky, and Chad Syverson). 

  • Nominee: SMS Annual Conference 2025 Best Conference PhD Paper Prize

  • Nominee: SMS Annual Conference 2025 Strategic Human Capital Interest Group Best PhD Paper Prize

Work in Progress

• Business Expectation and Firm Performance in an Interconnected Economy, (with Atsushi Ohyama). 

• Academic Performance and Selection into Entrepreneurship: Science and Engineering Education during Japan's Industrialization, (with Shotaro Yamaguchi, Serguey Braguinsky, and Rajshree Agarwal). 

Invited Conference and Seminar Presentations

• Strategic Management Society 46th Annual Conference, Berlin, Germany, Oct 2026. 

• NBER Economics of Talent Conference, Boston, United States, Oct 2026.

• Academy of Management 86th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, United States, August 2026. 

• CCC Doctoral Conference, Milan, Italy, June 2026. 

• Strategic Management Society 45th Annual Conference, San Francisco, United States, Oct 2025. 

• Seminar at Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, Tokyo, Japan, Jul 2025. 

• Seminar at Waseda University Research Institute of Business Administration, Tokyo, Japan, Jan 2025. 

• Strategic Management Society 44th Annual Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, Oct 2024. 

• Strategic Management Society 43rd Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, Oct 2023.