I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. My research examines questions at the intersection of strategic human capital and nonmarket strategy, studying how institutional forces—regulatory, political, and social—are transmitted to and through organizations, and how the mechanisms of that transmission shape organizational outcomes. A central theme across my work is that institutional pressures do not pass through organizational boundaries intact; rather, they are filtered, distorted, and sometimes inverted by the conduits through which they operate. One stream of my work focuses on people as conduits, studying how the movement of workers across organizational boundaries carries practices, identities, and commitments between firms, and how hiring decisions mediate which of these reach the organization. A second stream focuses on regulatory forces as conduits, studying how the design and delegation of regulatory authority shapes the direction and intensity of firms' innovative activity, and the conditions under which regulation promotes or undermines the very outcomes it is intended to achieve.

I earned my Ph.D. in Management and Organizations from Cornell University, my M.A. in Public Policy from Johns Hopkins University, and my B.A. in Journalism from Fudan University. Before starting my academic journey, I worked as a consultant at the World Bank to promote climate finance and sustainable energy access.

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