I study how entrepreneurs identify ideas, build ventures, and achieve impact.
My CV is available here:
Published work is available here:
Analytic models in strategy, organizations, and management research: A guide for consumers, with K. Eisenhardt and R. Tidhar (Strategic Management Journal, 2021)
Forced ecosystems and digital stepchildren: Reconfiguring suppliers to realize disruptive social media technology, with P. Ozcan (Strategy Science, 2020)
How firms navigate cooperation and competition in nascent ecosystems, with K. Eisenhardt (Strategic Management Journal, 2018)
Resource redeployment in business ecosystems, with R. Bremner and K. Eisenhardt (Advances in Strategic management, 2016)
Other works, book chapters, and popular press:
Getting through a job search with more than just a job (Inside Higher Ed, August 2022)
How communities are saving lives with clever ideas and cleaner air (Insights@Questrom, March 2022)
How a nondescript box has been saving lives during the pandemic - and revealing the power of grassroots innovation (The Conversation, 2022, republished in Fast Company, Smithsonian Magazine, the Houston Chronicle, and 35 other outlets)
One way to build more resilient medical supply chains in the U.S. (Harvard Business Review, 2021)
Commentary: Bottlenecks, cooperation, and competition in nascent ecosystems, with K. Eisenhardt (Strategic Management Journal, 2019)
Firm strategy in business ecosystems, with R. Bremner and K. Eisenhardt, in “Collaborative Strategy: Critical Issues for Alliances and Networks” (Edward Elgar, 2017)
Review: Winds of Change: The Environmental Movement and the Global Development of the Wind Energy Industry with C. Eesley (Administrative Science Quarterly, 2012)
Media:
“Bringing it home: A supply chain resiliency tactic” (AAMI, April 2023)
“Pandemic forced Nebraskans to innovate” (Omaha World-Journal, June 2022)
“Innovating our way out of the pandemic” (Deutsche Welle, March 2022)
“Changing Lanes” (Monocle, November 2021)
“Building resilient supply chains for healthcare” (Forbes, June 2021)
“Expert take: What the pandemic revealed about the global medical supply chain” (Insights@Questrom, April 2021)