Overview

I’m an Assistant Professor in the Management and Organization department at the University of Washington.

I study how organizations use data and AI in innovation. My research projects fall under two broad research streams.

In one research stream, I study how organizations use data and experimentation to identify innovation opportunities with significant commercial potential. For example, my most recent paper, Methodological Pluralism and Innovation in Data-driven Organizations, explains when data-driven innovation approaches can be misleading and when they can be helpful.

In another research stream, I study how AI impacts strategic decision-making. In one working paper, I’m studying how well AI performs in strategy simulations compared to MBA students. I have prior publications on how human domain experience impacts taking algorithmic advice, and on machine learning methods in research.

These current research interests build on my prior publications on innovation in global R&D and shifting category dynamics in emerging industries.

I got my PhD at Harvard. Before that, I studied Economics at BYU, served a 2-year mission in Taiwan for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, conducted economic research on environmental health issues, managed at a nonprofit, and did a stint as data analyst at Amazon. I live in Newcastle, WA with my wife and 4 children.

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