On the trail with my favorite co-authors-in-training.

I am an Assistant Professor of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities.

My research examines the strategic implications of digitalized labor markets for the firms that rely on them. I organize my work around three streams. The first examines how firms respond to platform design choices, showing that mechanisms meant to reduce friction — filters, steering algorithms — often redistribute search costs and alter the strategic balance between market participants. The second focuses on how firms and workers use these platforms to compete, identifying the complementary capabilities required to turn digitalized markets into a labor market advantage. The third investigates how artificial intelligence affects a firm’s use of labor, showing that AI’s impact is not uniform: it is moderated by both internal hierarchy and external legal institutions such as copyright.

My work is primarily empirical and pays careful attention to causal identification, drawing on field experiments, regression discontinuity designs, and granular administrative data that captures the complete hiring funnel across thousands of firms. It has been published in Management Science, the Strategic Management Journal, the Journal of Labor Economics, Organization Science, and Strategy Science.

To stay close to how technology is changing labor markets in practice, I spent the summer of 2025 as a visiting senior data scientist at Indeed.com, studying how employers trade off among machine learning algorithms, filters, and Boolean search when locating and hiring workers. While completing my doctorate, I worked as a staff economist on the data science team at oDesk (now Upwork).

Before joining Carlson, I was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Strategy at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business. I received my Ph.D. in Business Administration from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, and hold an M.B.A. and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis. Earlier in my career I worked as an economic consultant at Chicago Partners and Navigant Consulting.