Research Interests:  Employee entrepreneurship, employee mobility, labor market strategy, competition, social comparison

Dissertation: Wages, Mobility, Competitive Positioning, and the Interaction of Competitive and Social Processes
Committee:  Rajshree Agarwal (chair), David Waguespack (chair), Christine Beckman, David Sicilia, Evan Starr
Essay 1: “Compensation diffusion through multi-location firms” (preparing working paper) [CCC presentation slides]
Essay 2: “Social influence and competition between critics” with David Waguespack (revise and resubmit, Strategic Management Journal) [PDF]
Essay 3: “Admission on Motion and the Mobility and Wages of Lawyers” (preparing and analyzing data)

Publications:
“When does corporate social responsibility reduce employee turnover? Evidence from attorneys before and after 9/11​” with Seth Carnahan and David Kryscynski (Forthcoming, Academy of Management Journal) [PDF]

“Employee Mobility and Entrepreneurship: A Virtual Special Issue” Strategic Management Journal (2014) with Rajshree Agarwal and Alfonso Gambardella [SMS VSI site]

Works in progress:
“Competition and social influence between critics” with David Waguespack (revise and resubmit, Strategic Management Journal) [PDF]

“Join or Create Competition? A Market Frictions Approach to the Antecedents and Consequences of Employee Mobility and Entrepreneurship” with Rajshree Agarwal and Benjamin Campbell (preparing initial draft)   

Education:
University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Ph.D., Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship (anticipated 2016)

Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
J.D. (2004)

Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
B.A., Philosophy (2000)