I am an Assistant Professor at Columbia Business School and a research affiliate at CESifo and IZA. My research interests are in organizational economics, personnel economics, and strategy, and particularly productivity, technological innovation, digitization, and personnel. My Ph.D. is from UC Berkeley.
I won the Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship, the Robert Beyster Fellowship, and the CESifo Prize. I was also named to Poets and Quants’ 2020 list of Best 40 Business School Professors Under 40.
At Columbia, I am also affiliated with the Data Science Institute and Zuckerman Institute. My elective, People Analytics and Strategy, won The Aspen Institute's 2019 Ideas Worth Teaching Award. From 2018-2024, I was a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
News:
12/25: Coverage (HBR) of my research about applying market design to organizational problems.
9/25: I am honored to win the inaugural Marie Curie Prize for the most creative paper at the Advances with Field Experiments conference organized by John List and Robert Metcalfe for our paper about noncompetes.
7/25: I am thankful to the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago for making me an affiliate fellow.
5/25: Honored to receive a grant from the Stellar Development Foundation to support my research on network formation (with Zikai Xu).
2/25: My paper about noncompetes was presented at the FTC.
11/24: Article about my work on prediction markets by Dan Schwarz.
5/24: I'm organizing the Non-Market Effects of Market Power conference. Check out Political Power and Market Power (with Andrea Prat and Tommaso Valletti).
11/23: My paper won the Long Term Impact Award from INFORMS.
5/23: This HBR article: "How to Design an Internal Talent Market" summarizes my research about applying market design to organizational problems.
4/23: "Does AI Cheapen Talk?" My paper with Natailya Wright and Pablo Pablo Hernández-Lagos won a grant from The Digital Future Initiative.
2/23: Check out the Columbia Management, Analytics, and Data conference.
