Research across economics and strategy.

I am an assistant professor of Management and Human Resources at The Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business. My research draws on economics and strategy to study innovation, research productivity, firm behavior, organizational structure, and knowledge flows.

I combine economic theory and applied econometrics with large-scale firm and patent data. My data experience includes restricted U.S. Census Bureau/NSF business R&D surveys, longitudinal firm records, patent data, and other economic datasets. I also collaborate on quantitative studies in veterinary and animal sciences.

I began my training in economics at the University of Brasília, studied managerial economics and strategy at Northwestern University, and earned a PhD in Strategy from Washington University in St. Louis. That path shapes both the questions I ask about firms and the evidence I use to answer them.

At Ohio State, I teach undergraduate strategic management and MBA competitive analysis. I also build classroom simulations that let students test ideas about rivalry, entry, innovation, and diversification through their own decisions.