Research

Career Mobility

How do involuntary career transitions — acquisitions, layoffs, restructurings — reshape the trajectories of the workers who experience them? I study what happens to employees when career decisions are made for them, not by them; for instance, the retention and turnover patterns of acquired versus hired employees in technology M&A, and how career similarity between acquired workers and their new colleagues shapes post-acquisition outcomes.

Entrepreneurship and Enterprise

What career experiences and organizational contexts produce entrepreneurs? I examine the pathways that lead individuals from employment to enterprise, whether through founding a new venture or building one within an existing firm. My work here asks how external hiring sparks intrapreneurship in large technology companies, and what distinguishes the different career classes of entrepreneurs.

Demographic Inequality in Careers

How do gender, age, and background shape who advances and who doesn't — particularly in industries that claim to reward merit? The structural barriers that produce unequal outcomes in high-skilled, high-mobility labor markets — including gender differences in intrapreneurship, the gender gap in technology entrepreneurship, and age homophily in venture-backed startups — are persistent and underexamined.

Technological Change and Careers

How do technological cycles restructure the demand for labor and redistribute career opportunity? I currently hold a competitive Ministry of Education grant investigating how AI is reshaping technology careers and the demographics of workers entering them. This builds on earlier work examining the rise and fall of Web3 careers, which revealed how emerging technologies redistribute who gets hired, who gets displaced, and who chooses to enter.