Moshe Barach is an Assistant Professor of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship at the Carlson School of Management at University of Minnesota – Twin Cities. Prior to joining Carlson, he was a visiting at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business. He received his Ph.D. at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. He is a firm strategy researcher, who focuses on the strategic human capital decisions of firms as well as the firm-founding decisions of individuals. His research thus far can be separated into two related research streams. In the first, he adopts the perspective of the firm to understand how a firm can achieve a strategic human capital advantage through hiring. The second stream of research adopts the individual perspective to understand why some individuals choose to pursue entrepreneurship as a career path.
While completing his doctorate, he worked as an economist as part of the data science team at oDesk.com. His work focused on understanding how machine learning algorithms could be used in conjunction with market mechanisms to create better matches and reduce platform congestion.
Prior to graduate school at Berkeley, he worked as an economic consultant at Chicago Partners and graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with an M.B.A and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering.