SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY LEADERSHIP
U.S. universities receive billions of dollars in public funding each year to perform research that advances our understanding of the world and improves our lives. But market and institutional failures frustrate the translation of academic research into real impact. My mission, through service, is to help translate scientific inventions into societal impact through entrepreneurship by addressing these failures.
This mission led me to start the Endless Frontier Labs (EFL)—a seed stage program to assist startups with breakthrough science and technology based ideas. The EFL brings together business leaders, elite investors, and world-renowned scientists to de-risk novel science and provide business advice and capital to scale startups. The nine-month program is integrated with a course I teach to MBAs on science- and technology-based entrepreneurship. Each student in the course works with a startup in the program, providing the students exposure to cutting-edge science and the process of scaling and financing startups. This unique program now attracts the most promising science-based startups from all over the world, has helped them raise seed-stage financing and generated job opportunities to MBA students.
I also serve as Director of the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship which has served as the main hub for entrepreneurship programming at NYU since 1984. The Berkley Center assists founders affiliated with NYU bootstrap their ideas from concept through company incorporation and beyond. I am also a member of the NYU Innovation Council, a cross-functional governing body that assesses intellectual property and advises academic inventors at NYU‘s schools and campuses. My service has been recognized by several awards, including NYU Stern’s Faculty Leadership Award for “exceptional leadership through service.”
ACADEMIC SERVICE
I serve as Editor at three of the foremost management journals that publish research on innovation and entrepreneurship (Associate Editor at Management Science since 2020, Senior Editor at Organization Science since 2015, and Coeditor at Journal of Economics and Management Strategy since 2020). Through these outlets, I handle and make decisions on 40-50 manuscripts each year. I also review grant proposals for funding bodies (e.g., National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and Kauffman Foundation), adjudicate awards (e.g., Kauffman Dissertation Award, Academy Of Management’s Best Student Paper Awards), and referee book proposals (for Stanford University Press, Oxford University Press, and Palgrave Macmillan). I have mentored eight PhD students and several Masters and Undergraduate students.
You can read my service statement here.